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Saturday with my boyfriend continued:
I found it easier and more and more pleasurable to talk to PZ. I really like spending time with him and enjoy our conversations. We've had awkwardness in the past when we weren't so sure about what the other one felt about us, BUT now comfort is setting in majorly, and there's no more question:
we are close. I feel like we can talk about anything. Still, we haven't had a harsh word or argument. We haven't even really disagreed, because if one of us has a different viewpoint, neither of us are trying to push it on the other. We both intuitively respect other people's logic as valid in its own way--and he's SO REASONABLE

I'm used to my past 2 exes liking to argue for the fun of it. I don't like argumenting--I like AUGMENTING. What I mean is, say someone makes a statement, and the other person feels like the statement is lacking extrapolation (don't you just love that word?

"def 2a: to project, extend, or expand (known data or experience) into an area not known or experienced so as to arrive at a usually conjectural knowledge of the unknown area"), but instead of arguing the first person is WRONG, s/he accepts said statement and goes on to add to it--or AUGMENT the first statement. This kind of talk usually leads to new trains of thought by the first person, and the conversation becomes more and more fascinating. To us. HA!
Slinky Peezey
For those of you unfamiliar with astrology, the main characteristics for Scorpio are pretty harsh sometimes. PZ is a double, but the other planets of his natal chart explain a lot of his laid-back characteristics. However, he reminds me of a scorpion in a lot of ways, and this is how I got to nickname him "Slinky Peezey:" At parties and in public, he's actually more demonstrative and affectionate than I'd expect from a Scorpio, although never excessive. The slinkiness comes in like this: PZ is 6'3" and therefore can sort of be in two places at once, so to speak

When he walks, he doesn't bounce around--he kind of glides, slow and deliberate, but his intensity is masked by pretend-casualness. He holds himself like someone who is determined to blend into the background and not draw attention to himself, but has an innate strong self-confidence as well. When we first met, he described himself as "low key" and prefers to dance in the back of a room against a wall. LOL! Talk about a defensive demeanor

Anyway, when we're together, I'm sashaying about in front, easily distracted by colors and noises and people. I'm always checking my back to see if he's on my tail, and he always is, but he isn't always where he WAS the last time I looked. Without meaning to, he sneaks up on me--he SLINKS around me, and sometimes I look back over my left shoulder, don't see him, worry I lost him for a second, until I look harder and there he is, quietly behind me on my
right side. What makes it even more funny is the whole thing where, you're behind someone, you tap their right shoulder, they turn around, but you've already stepped to the left and tricked them so they don't see you at first--WELL, here's how it is with PZ: We'll be in a crowd at a party and he'll be on my left, and I'll be looking at him and he'll be standing there, not looking at me, and not touching me. I get used to this scenario and my attention starts to wander.....well,
when I least expect it, and silently, PZ will put his hand on the opposite side of my body from himself, either on my arm or hip or waist, SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF ME because I'm afraid it's some random drunk guy grabbing me, and draw me close to him and stroke me with that hand. I almost ALWAYS jump and shriek, realize it's just
him, and relax into the hug and laugh about it, "You slinky mutherfucka!" When I described him like that for the first time, he grinned, pleased and said, "yes, yes I AM slinky." When he rock climbed, he said he did it kind of slinkily. When he snowboards, he has a slinky quality about him. And of course in his walk--you could almost call it "skulking" but not exaggerated or funky looking. It's very subtle and I only notice it because I'm his girlfriend and I study his mannerisms. LOL!
ANYWAY, Saturday after lunch we drove to the East Bay to my parents house. He got to meet Chad, my awesome stepdad who is 10 years my mom's junior (and only 12 years older than me). He also got to watch
Dead Alive, my favorite zombie flick made in New Zealand---and one of the funniest movies out there!

After a nice rest, we went to the Improv in San Jo to see Arj Barker from
Flight of the Conchords (which I haven't seen) and he was pretty funny, but the opening acts SUCKED. Then we drove back to his house and snuggled up really good. I know there's a stereotype that men only want sex and not cuddling, but either it's not true for at least the guys I've been with or my body is particularly cuddly

HA!
Sunday
I made it to 10:30am Yoga in Santa Cruz, then drove BACK to my hometown myself (PZ was spending Sunday preparing for his snowboarding trip) to spend the afternoon with my paternal grandpa, whose 78th birthday was yesterday. Gramps is GREAT--yeah he has Type 2 and yeah he has sleep apnea and degenerative arthritis in one shoulder, but other than that, he exercises and spends lots of time with his friends, arranging his Microwave Radio stuff (he's been into it for 50 years), and hanging out with his radio buddies, going to meetings. He goes to the gym 3xs a week, just got a new treadmill for watching TV, and bicycles in his hood as well.

Love him!
Then I went to my maternal grandparents' house to chat with them and my second cousin Paul, from Australia, and his wife, who were visiting from Melbourne. The talk was great! Paul hasn't always lived in Australia, so when he visits he ODs on his favorite American things he can't get like Dr. Pepper and Fritos

YUCK! Well, whatever! He's visited occasionally since I was a baby so I'm well acquainted with him, but it was the first time he brought his wife, who was also cool.
Monday and Tuesday: Work work work, facepeel Monday and Tuesday I already mentioned.
OK! Onward to visit eventually.........
