If last week was the best ever, this one must have been a dream

Another week has past with having a job, money and a life in NYC. Seriously, I was thinking earlier today about when I had no job, no money, and no life in NYC and spent the day cooped up in the little box of a room all my stuff is in at half-wife’s parents house, living off of ramen noodles. Hooray, those days are long gone!

Anyway, this week was pretty cool. Starting off on Tuesday, where we left off… not a lot happened. I can’t even remember what I made myself to eat for dinner. The excitement of getting back to work after a long weekend no doubt fried my brain. It did snow though, but only a little and nothing really changed on that front (there were no blizzards for instance). I did have lunch with Keith at work as he was back from his trip to Istanbul, and it was nice to be able to catch up.

Wow, Wednesday is a total blur too. WTF, was my life really dull? I know that I made a salad for dinner that day, and I told the checkout girl about our project that hija and I are working on and her response was “I’ve been told I have nice feet” so the long awaited black demographic might have been found! I finished reading In Defence of Food on Wednesday, I remember that much, that really is a great book concerning why we should eat proper food and not frozen or packaged food. Yuck, gross.

Thursday… well I was going to go home but I got a call from hija to save her day as she was stressed and tired and needed some Rosbif to cheer her up. So we went to dinner, where I expounded upon my theory that we have reached a degree of closeness that would only fall if we were to start dating people, and that thus we should one day date ourselves! She shot that down like a sniper, despite conceding at our dinner party her best friend told her that I am “great” and “what are you doing?”. But we had the usual great time talking and having fun, which was a pleasant surprise given that I had not planned upon seeing hija this day, but was supposed to see her Friday although that apparently was now cancelled due to Thursday.

Friday was… interesting. Worked a bit, drank a gin at work as I was fed up with a task, went out to lunch with Keith and Erika which was nice and got very jealous when hija told me she had lover-boy Ryan pick her up from work due to being molested (in the bad way not in the Rosbif way) by a co-worker. But then hija called and invited me over to hang out once I finished work, so I did and then I felt even worse when Damara called and hija said she was with someone and Damara said “Ryan?”, and then hija went into another room to speak and I actually felt sad enough to consider leaving! Good job I didn’t though as I went to see her while she was talking and we started to cuddle and hold hands and then after being a gentleman and spurning the first two clear-cut opportunities to kiss her, we kissed for real (this was not a bad thing) and umm kissed for about 2 hours and it was great because hija is amazing and I couldn’t be happier. So yay! I kissed hija and held her and it was just happiness for the first time since I came back from England (as in England I was just super happy at being back home and everyone was commenting upon just how happy and good I looked) and really, it was the first happiness or contentment for a long, long time. And my eyes were really, really green. Which is a good thing

Then Saturday came, and I cooked roast pork and roast vegetables. I offered to hija to bring her some of the deliciousness and so I did, and hung out with her and her sisters watching a good movie of which I forget the name. I was going to ask hija a question about an email she sent me earlier in the day soon after I arrived (the part in question was whether saying “I woke up this morning and was thinking if last night really happened….” was a good or a bad thing) so I called her over and said I wanted to ask her something and she kissed me before I asked and so I just said “You answered my question!”. We had some kisses for a while after the movie and then I had to go as I am an old man and I get tired easily it seems! But… just smiles and “aaahhhh” and it’s nice to feel happy after such a long time, and really, who better than hija? Even if she told me I have to stop calling her hija now. Bah.

Today, I woke up starving but didn’t eat until lunch (Tuna and onions in chicken stock sauce with pasta mmmm) and I spent the day doing the thrilling thing of tidying up. I’m amazed how you can spend 6 hours tidying a tiny space. It does look good now, even if my back does ache. I am getting old!