bad blogger...and opening the friend gates

Hello blog! How i missed you! Did you miss me as well?

I haven't been on in a few days and by yesterday I was really starting to miss blogging. It is just such a good way for me to get out of some of the noise in my head, maybe make sense of it.

I have made good progress in meeting some new friends out here. I finally met Nell, we got lunch earlier in the week. At first, she was very West Coast Flat. Not reacting to much, not very engaging. West Coast Flat is soo hard to work with, hard to get a proper conversation going.

But towards the end of the conversation, she started to warm up and seemed nicer and more fun. We are supposed to go out tonight for dinner at this Vietnamese restaurant with great veggie options. Nell has been there and said the food is amazing, I am looking forward to trying it.

My craigslist ad seems to have been successful. I had a number of girls write back who sound interesting, upbeat and fun. I've been talking a lot with Teresa, who seems very nice, but I get the feeling she is very impressed with being smart and tries to show it off. So far, I think Tawny is the winner, she is my age, loves trying new stuff (like sky diving) and has been to 17 different countries.

I am definitely excited at the prospect of having girls to talk to and hang out with again, but it's weird also. It has been just Tim and me for so long now, that it feels hard to break out of that safety/comfort zone. And I think Tim might feel slightly left out, because he still isn't really meeting people (other than Joel at the dog park.) It will come in time, but like any new thing, it feels weird/hard at first.