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[ladypirate]

Here''s a picture of Ned and I--people always used to think we were dating, but we were never interested in each other like that. He''s just one of my very best friends. I also like this picture because you can see what color my eyes are.

 

[ladypirate]

And here''s a picture of when we did Beauty and the Beast!

 

[ladypirate]

OH! I also forgot to mention that the summer after college is when I started playing in my band, Paper Blue. Here''s a picture of us on stage rocking out!

 

[ladypirate]

And one last picture for now--this is Levi and I.

 

[gwendolyn]

Date: 6/24/2008 12:31:51 PM
Author: ladypirate
OH! I also forgot to mention that the summer after college is when I started playing in my band, Paper Blue. Here''s a picture of us on stage rocking out!

Hahaha, LOVE IT!!! That is so cool!!!!

 

[ladypirate]

OK, so the next installment:

I didn''t mention in my last post that one of the things I did that summer after college was proofread Kris'' masters thesis for him! He graduated that fall with his degree.

Anyhow, so I moved to Los Angeles in October of 2006 and began working in the animation industry (for the Fox show American Dad). I was mainly breaking down scripts, assigning drawings to the artists, doing photoshop clean-up of drawings and adding text. It was a very entry-level job, but it was such a fun work environment. We used to do things like have guitar hero parties after work or have lunch-hour chess tournaments. It was cool, too, because I was working with my mom''s friend (the one who had lived in New Mexico).

Great story from working there: we were having a company-wide chess tournament. I''m an ok chess player, but I had gotten matched up against someone who was really good and I knew I was most likely going to lose. Some of the directors and I hatched a plan to rig up a hidden camera over the board and have me wear an earpiece and make the moves that a computer would have made on "expert" setting. It totally worked! The best part is that for the week before, I''d been trying to intimidate him by acting like I was really good at chess (I did things like leave a knight under a tissue coverlet on his chair as a godfather reference and hang the king from his desk lamp). The day of, there were some technical difficulties at first and I just sat there and stared at him after he made his first move until they got the problem fixed. LOL. He was so confused, but after we told him he thought it was pretty funny.

Anyhow, in January of that year, Levi and I broke up. I think it was actually the first time someone had broken up with me rather than the other way around. It wasn''t bitter or anything like that, but man did it hurt. As with the other relationships I''d had, it wasn''t anything personal, our lives were just going in different directions. I went on a few dates over the next few months, but decided I didn''t want to be in a relationship for a long time.

After Levi and I broke up, Kris and I got closer (still just as friends, though). He''d come down and visit me in LA some weekends and we talked a lot online and on the phone. Here''s a picture from when we went hiking on his birthday in April of that year (I was shocked that there was no water in the creek):

 

[ladypirate]

Kris was just happy to be hiking:

 

[ladypirate]

Anyhow, one weekend in May he was visiting me in Los Angeles and asked if I thought we could be together...as a couple. I was shocked, actually. I tend to be unbelievably blind to things like this. This part I''m really not proud of. I said something about "I don''t know...sure?" We continued talking as if nothing had happened and then he went back to Santa Barbara (no kiss or anything...it was really an awkward moment). The next day, I got a facebook request from him to say we were in a relationship and I freaked out. I had promised myself I was going to be single for a while and was utterly terrified about getting into another relationship. I called him and told him I couldn''t do it right now and I needed some time to think it over.

I think a lot of the reason I freaked out about it was actually that we got along so well. I knew Kris and I knew that if we started dating, it was not going to be something casual. If I agreed to give "us" a chance, I was potentially giving up my last chance to be selfish and single and I wasn''t sure I was ready to make that decision. Kris was, by his own admission, rather crestfallen, but he respected my need for space. He also thought that me saying I needed to think about it was just a line, but I was being honest. I spent a lot of time over the next few weeks thinking about it. I thought about it when he went to Seattle for a week and I couldn''t just talk to him for several hours ever night. I thought about it when I saw a t-shirt I thought he''d like and got it for him on a whim. I thought about it when he came back from Seattle and I just had to come back to visit my parents (and him) the next weekend. I really thought about it that weekend when we rode our bikes to a nearby park and sat and talked for a couple of hours. By that evening I''d come to my decision--more of a realization, really. I realized that since I was already mostly in love with him and had been for a while, it was a bit silly of me to keep pretending I wasn''t.

Here''s a picture of Kris on the kiddie swings at the park the day I realized that:

 

[ladypirate]

DARN IT!

I just typed up a whole thing and the computer ate it. Grrr...

Well, the next chapter of Kris and my story will have to wait until I feel like typing it again...

 

[FrekeChild]

I love that picture of Kris. And the bit about being together and you having to think about it, and then figuring out that you were already in love with him--this sounds SO familiar. Oh yeah, it''s kind of what happened with Dale. Oy.

Weird.

 

[miraclesrule]

OMG, you are a very vivid story teller. I love the pictures, the drama pics, and of course, we all know I am a sucker....like a serious pineapple-coconut flavored dum dum...sucker for a love story. I love that you finally came to the realization that you and Kris needed to "hook-up" girlfriend!!!

It''s a sad story why I never stayed in drama and one I don''t want to tell in your thread, but suffice it to say that I was a natural at comedy. A lot of people tell me I could be a female version of a watered down, Howard Stern

But seriously, I have to say that I was the brains behind a high-school drama assignment where we had to come up with a product and write and act out the commercial. This is so embarassing...the product was "Concentrate De-Constipate"

 

[gwendolyn]

Date: 6/26/2008 6:49:22 PM
Author: ladypirate
Anyhow, one weekend in May he was visiting me in Los Angeles and asked if I thought we could be together...as a couple. I was shocked, actually. I tend to be unbelievably blind to things like this. This part I''m really not proud of. I said something about ''I don''t know...sure?'' We continued talking as if nothing had happened and then he went back to Santa Barbara (no kiss or anything...it was really an awkward moment). The next day, I got a facebook request from him to say we were in a relationship and I freaked out. I had promised myself I was going to be single for a while and was utterly terrified about getting into another relationship. I called him and told him I couldn''t do it right now and I needed some time to think it over.


I think a lot of the reason I freaked out about it was actually that we got along so well. I knew Kris and I knew that if we started dating, it was not going to be something casual. If I agreed to give ''us'' a chance, I was potentially giving up my last chance to be selfish and single and I wasn''t sure I was ready to make that decision. Kris was, by his own admission, rather crestfallen, but he respected my need for space. He also thought that me saying I needed to think about it was just a line, but I was being honest. I spent a lot of time over the next few weeks thinking about it. I thought about it when he went to Seattle for a week and I couldn''t just talk to him for several hours ever night. I thought about it when I saw a t-shirt I thought he''d like and got it for him on a whim. I thought about it when he came back from Seattle and I just had to come back to visit my parents (and him) the next weekend. I really thought about it that weekend when we rode our bikes to a nearby park and sat and talked for a couple of hours. By that evening I''d come to my decision--more of a realization, really. I realized that since I was already mostly in love with him and had been for a while, it was a bit silly of me to keep pretending I wasn''t.


Here''s a picture of Kris on the kiddie swings at the park the day I realized that:

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. So cute!! (Both the story and that photo.)

 

[miraclesrule]

That chess tournament story is a classic.

 

[ladypirate]

Date: 6/26/2008 9:25:03 PM
Author: FrekeChild
I love that picture of Kris. And the bit about being together and you having to think about it, and then figuring out that you were already in love with him--this sounds SO familiar. Oh yeah, it''s kind of what happened with Dale. Oy.

Weird.

Are you sure you''re not like my evil twin or something? Do you have a goatee???

 

[ladypirate]

Gwen, I''m glad you like the story--I''ll try to get the next bit typed up today since we''re moving on Monday and this weekend will be SWAMPED!

Miracles, I can see your comedic flair coming out in your posts--have you thought about doing some community theatre for fun?

 

[gwendolyn]

Date: 6/27/2008 11:47:22 AM
Author: ladypirate

Date: 6/26/2008 9:25:03 PM

Author: FrekeChild

I love that picture of Kris. And the bit about being together and you having to think about it, and then figuring out that you were already in love with him--this sounds SO familiar. Oh yeah, it''s kind of what happened with Dale. Oy.


Weird.

Are you sure you''re not like my evil twin or something? Do you have a goatee???

Oooh, I''m sensing a bit of Photoshopping that might happen this weekend...

 

[FrekeChild]

I do not have a goatee, and I don''t think I''m your evil twin. But...seriously weird.

Go for it Gwen!

 

[ladypirate]

Date: 6/27/2008 12:31:10 PM
Author: FrekeChild
I do not have a goatee, and I don''t think I''m your evil twin. But...seriously weird.

Go for it Gwen!

Maybe I''m the evil one...mwa ha ha ha ha ha!

 

[SarahLovesJS]

Ladypirate love all the pics and stories!! Haha, especially the band, that is awesome!

 

[gwendolyn]

Date: 6/27/2008 12:31:10 PM
Author: FrekeChild
I do not have a goatee, and I don''t think I''m your evil twin. But...seriously weird.


Go for it Gwen!

You do! I have the proof! You cannot deny it any longer!

 

[ladypirate]

Date: 6/27/2008 4:59:27 PM
Author: gwendolyn

Date: 6/27/2008 12:31:10 PM
Author: FrekeChild
I do not have a goatee, and I don''t think I''m your evil twin. But...seriously weird.


Go for it Gwen!

You do! I have the proof! You cannot deny it any longer!

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That is AWESOME!

 

[gwendolyn]

I couldn''t get the spraypaint thingy to work, so that''s all done with pure paintshop pro skillz and some masterful smudging techniques. Ohhhhh yeeeeeah.

 

[FrekeChild]

Oh my.

 

[miraclesrule]

Ahahahahahaha, that''s awesome!!

 

[gwendolyn]

Date: 6/27/2008 6:35:59 PM
Author: FrekeChild

Oh my.

...you did say I could.

 

[FrekeChild]

I know. I have laughed hysterically every time I see it. BF is not nearly as amused as I am.

I didn''t know that you were going to alter my eyebrows too!!!

That is hilarious.

 

[gwendolyn]

Date: 6/28/2008 1:52:45 PM
Author: FrekeChild
I know. I have laughed hysterically every time I see it. BF is not nearly as amused as I am.


I didn''t know that you were going to alter my eyebrows too!!!


That is hilarious.

The eyebrows were a spur of the moment thing, they just seemed to call to me.

Awww, I''m sorry BF doesn''t like seeing you with evil facial hair. Is it strange that I think you still look lovely, even with a goatee?!

 

[FrekeChild]

Awww Gwen! You''re so sweet!!!

Imagine that mischievous pic I posted with a goatee and eyebrows...LMAO!!!

 

[miraclesrule]

I think it''s hysterical... And hey, once you put that picture out on the internet, it''s fair game.

 

[FrekeChild]

Hey, I don''t care. Besides, it''s all in good fun!

LP, I hope that your and Kris'' task of moving is going well and that you are well on your way to getting situated!!!! Yay Portland!!!!

(Oh and BF''s trip is in October, not November. I still don''t know when, and I certainly don''t know that I''d be able to afford going, but that would be so cool, right?)