Sorry! Nice Guy flew home with me the friday after Valentine's Day so I haven't had any time to blog.
But on to the good stuff!
Valentine's Day
Nice Guy sent flowers to my work and when I got home he had left gifts on the table. He got me my favourite perfume (Euphoria by Calvin Klein) and a necklace and earrings made of Amber, the DNA gem. And if you knew me, that's very sweet. I love genetics. Then we went out to dinner at this little bistro. And he had ordered truffles from a chocolate shop in my home town and had them sent but there was an issue with delivering to a Post Office Box so I haven't gotten them yet. He made chocolate dipped strawberries instead to make up for them not coming in time. It was the best valentine's day I've ever had.
Meeting the Parents
So we took a week and flew to where I grew up. We were surprising my mom for her sixtieth birthday. Everyone really, really liked him. He cooked a dinner for my family and my sister-in-law, who's a chef and was sick early in the week, said it was the only appetizing thing she ate in days. He met my high school friends. The guys took him aside and told him I had become a shadow but since I've been with him I'm really shining again and they wanted to thank him. I have really great friends. He was really good with my niece and nephew. We got some pictures taken by a photographer my family has been going to for years. We'll get sent the photos in about a week. Before we left my mom told me he was really nice and I made a good choice. And when my dad dropped us off at the airport he said "Don't let her tell you what to do". Thanks dad...
Our personas convince us that there is nothing that we don't know about ourselves -- that we are in fact the person we see in the mirror and believe ourselves to be. But the issue with this is that once we have bought into the story of 'this is who I am,' we shut the door on any other possibility and deny ourselves access to all of who we can be. We lose our ability to choose, because we can't do anything outside the confines of the character we're playing. The predictable persona we've constructed is now in control. We become blind to the immense possibilities for our life."
Debbie Ford
Great stuff - sounds like it's all really coming along well!
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