A special weekend I won't soon forget

I was travelling for business last week in Dallas and Houston.  It was stressful, and I really missed my normal routine with Andrew :( We exchanged texts of course throughout the week, but I missed his hugs, kisses, and smile :(  I flew back Friday, and was excited to get to hang out finally.  We went to a small house party that a friend of his was throwing.  We lost terribly at a game of beer pong (our team name was ironicialy "the titty comittee"), and spent the rest of the evening talking with a few of his friends before heading home.

Saturday we slept in then got lunch at one of my favorite local, family run sandwich shops.  Then I went on a 20 mile bike ride in the woods that was fantastic and sweaty!  I met up again with Andrew around 6pm and we went to a great local coffee shop + deli downtown for a light bite to eat.  Then we picked up a bottle of white wine and went down to the river to watch the sunset go down over the Mississippi river.  It was nice and quite romantic.  I enjoyed kissing and holding him as the sun went down.

After it got dark out, we went for dessert to split a piece of cheesecake at Cheesecake Corner, which is my favorite place in Memphis, I think.

We split a piece of the amazing cookies and cream cheesecake.  Then we went to a coffee shop for some coffee to kill time before meeting up with some of his friends.  Around 10:30 we met some of his friends to pregame before going out to the gay club, Spectrum.  His friends are so much fun.  We did a mini Rent sing-a-long, which one of them correctly pointed out really only works with "this crowd" (as everyone was either gay or lesbian).

Around midnight we headed out to the club, and caught the end of the drag show.  Then we danced for a few hours.  Going to Spectrum with Andrew is really fun.  Im sure were an obnoxiously cute couple.  I think its about 40% making out, 60% dancing :p  At one point some drunk asian twink was trying to grab at Andrew, who was trying to nicely say "Im with him (me) and not interested" but this drunk guy was not taking the hint lol.  Finally, he got it and in the most gay way did this "well fine then, fuck you" hand gesture and left.  It was funny.  I ran into two "grindr" guys there that I didn't want to run into.  Thankfully, I avoiding eye contact and pretended not to hear the one when he called my name.  We had a really great time.  Leaving the club, we kind of kissed for a second outside against the building, and this other gay couple came by.  One of the guys says "you two are just so adorable; don't lose that".  It made my day.  Like I kind of expect Andrew's friends to say things like that, but for some reason I trust random strangers...because they could just as easily have kept walking.  We dropped his friends off, then went home.

Andrew is significantly "smaller" than me just in terms of body mass/volume -- I'm a big scary masculine man with broad shoulders, and he's like a 5'6" adorable twinkish guy, but I feel like we really "fit" well.  He does this cute snuggly thing where he rests his head like on my right pec and wraps his right arm around my shoulder.  We spent a few minutes like that in bed just talking about our relationship, and how we were both so happy and so thankful.  He said that he was wondering when "the honeymoon would be over" -- because 2 months is going to come really quick and we really haven't had any bad spots yet -- no arguments, no weird miscommunications, or hurt feelings (to my knowledge).  Probabilistically, at some point, something will happen.  I hope that it never ends, but I told him that I feel like whatever it is, we'll figure it out.  I think we both have pretty accommodating personalities.  The big personality things that I find incompatible or frustrating in some people (unclear communications, omissions, general flakiness) he doesn't have, and I (as a naive overachiever) think I can solve all problems through determination and compromise.  So we'll see.

Sunday we slept in, and then I had to get ready to go graduate.  I would've liked to have invited Andrew to the graduation, but the "mom situation" is still a problem that I have to work on before introducing Andrew to her.  I got to walk across the stage for a Masters in Science degree for Computer Science! Woot woot!  Afterwards, my mom, her husband, and I went to Flight restaurant downtown for an awesome meal of deliciousness.

Now here I am writing this blog in my kitchen.

This weekend was such a fantastic time.  I love spending time with Andrew, because ...well I love Andrew.  He has really stolen my heart.  I can't even begin to describe all of the wonderful things that I feel for him.  He's just....great.  I hope that I make him as happy as he makes me.  It's still early (although I should stop saying this as its been almost 2 months), but I really could see building a wonderful partnership with Andrew-- hopefully one that will last many many years.  I want to share our lives together.

This weekend was really special for me in many ways.  I won't forget it anytime soon.  Even if everything goes to hell-- I can look back at this weekend and use it as inspiration that these kinds of relationships do in fact exist.  There are people (at least one) that fit so well with my needs (and vice versa) that it can fill my heart with so much love, I feel like it might burst.

Steve