"Can we call him your boyfriend yet?"

"Hey, I called you my boyfriend twice today."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah. It was weird."
"Who did you say it to?"
"Well one was my ex-boyfriend, because I was inviting him to the thing and didn't want him to get the wrong idea, so I was like, oh, my boyfriend organized and I helped!"
"You helped a lot."
"No, you did it all."
"Who was the other?"
"The photographer I met with. I was telling him all about run club and told him, 'my boyfriend actually started it, so this is shameless advertising.'"
"So you didn't like saying it?"
"No, it was just weird. I'm not used to it."
"Yeah," says the Founder, "I got the idea that you didn't really like the boyfriend/titles thing, so I tried to just stay away from it."
"That's why I like you," I say.

I'm straddling The Founder after we've gone swimming and taken a shower post-margarita race (which I won in the female category) and feel the urge to tell him this. It's weighing heavily on my soul that I called him my boyfriend. That I was the one to bring titles into the mix.

At some point in the conversation, The Founder uttered the most fantastic words he ever could have said to me, with my psyche, "I like what we have. I don't care what it's called."

Amazing.

Now I just want to hear him call me his girlfriend... sick, isn't it?

But fantastic. My roommate was asking yesterday, "Can we call him your boyfriend yet?" and I 'fessed up that I had twice that day and she laughed. But The Founder is absolutely amazing. My ex was at the run last night and was definitely hanging around me a lot (and I failed to mention that he has my initial tattooed on his arm with tears coming out of it... awesome), but The Founder was totally cool about it and just let me do my thing. He's ridiculously awesome.

He did tell me that he used to date one of the other girls that comes to run club--but she walks. But they dated for 4 1/2 years, 2 years ago, and he's been single since. He says for the last year and a half it was pretty much over, as he wasn't here and they were just sort of holding on. So that's cool that he told me, and funny that we both have exes at run club, though his is obviously more serious. Oh, funny times last night at the run--my current boyfriend, my high school ex boyfriend, and R., my ambiguously ex dating partner, all on the same patio. Totally cool though, which is a testament to everyone involved.

I kind of want to run around and tell people that The Founder is my boyfriend. I won't of course, but even that I kind of want to is ridic!

A date at Vivo

Let me begin by saying that I really don't like dates. They stress me out because I get worried about how I look, how I talk, what he's thinking... and when I get worried, I am not fun. Not weird or anything, just not as fun as I normally am. But my date with The Founder last night was AMAZING.

Part of it is my comfort level with The Founder, part of it is probably growing up, part of it is Vivo, which is PERFECT for dates, and part of it is just, well, fun. We had delicious and strong margaritas in the bar while we waited for an outside table, and then we had delicious food--my chicken tacos were delicious, stuffed too full, served with guac (yes!) AND the rice is brown rice. Couldn't get any better. Another margarita and good, serious conversation about our families later and I am ready to wrap The Founder up and take him home.

...which I do, obviously. :-) Perhaps I should go on dates more often...