Winston and Herbert

I’m still sick with this…not sure what…stomach flu?

Yesterday I thought I was better, and I had finally published my new website, yay! So I excitely joined everyone on the sea kayak tour.

In part because I thought Sam was gonna be there. But he didn’t show.

It turned out to be a fun tour no less! Robert sitting behind me on the kayak made it extra fun. He was pretty funny.

Some highlights:
1. The seal poking out of the water! Robert said he looked like he was standing on something haha. The seal just looked at us in the most comical way. Like, who the fuck are you guys?
2. A seal jumping out of the water like a dolphin!
3. Splashing water at other people
4. Robert asked, Do you want some water? And splashed me.
5. Robert hit his kayak skirt and I felt it in my skirt. I laughed and he had no idea why unti I hit my skirt and he felt it. I started hitting other ppl’s skirt. Robert kept saying how inappropriate it was.
6. I said, “Wow the wave looks so big! But then..” he said, “But then it just sucked…..that’s what she said.” ahahaha
7. As we waited impatiently for the sun to set, a wave comes over and we can’t see the sun. “Oh, the sun has set”, Robert said. “Let’s go home.” “Oh, no it hasn’t.” Kept saying that a few times. haha
8. As we got back, the waves were so big. I got a huge puddle on my skirt. I screamed, “I’m all wet between my thighs!!”, He said, “Context Tanya, context”.

I’m surprised by the sexual jokes he made. I see him as a kid. He is 13 years younger than me. Only 24. He is sweet to me, and growing up real fast. He takes care of me sometimes. I like him a lot.

He is always very content, peaceful, and funny. He doesn’t get mad. I can learn from him.

So after getting back, I felt a bit tummy sick still. I lied in bed and decided to message Sam.

I told him that we saw two pterodactyls riding a giraffe today at sea. He said I know how to make a man sad.

He asked about how I was feeling and said to let him know if there’s anything he can do.

I said he can read to me his lobster and narwhal story.

He said he thinks that can be arranged.

He then pasted the introduction poem to his story. He said he’ll read it to me soon.

I read the poem and it was fantastic. I really enjoyed it.

I got up to go to the bathroom, and felt wetness dripping down my leg. Holy shit. I didn’t realize he turned me on that much.

I went to bed just thinking about him. Fantasizing about how he might make advances with me.

Today, some of us went on a guided walking tour. I came home early because I was still sick. I was surprised to see Sam on the balcony (with Julia and …Brittany perhaps?)

I talked to them a bit. I asked if he was there to read to me but he laughed.

I went to clean up my bed so I can lie down for a bit. I heard him say that he was gonna get going. What. I was disappointed.

He came over to my door near the bathroom to say goodbye. Didn’t come very close..but at least he said goodbye. He said he hopes I’m back to myself again soon, and he’ll read to me soon.

I thought, wtf why don’t you read to me now? I need this now, while I’m sick!

But I said, Ok, and flashed a cute and shy smile. So did he.

I adore him and I adore his talents, and I think now it’s clear that we both like each other. At the same time I now completely question my ability to judge people’s fondness of each other. I never saw Pia and Brian coming. I never saw Fred and Rebecca coming either. Even AFTER knowing that they have hooked up! And while I haven’t seen Sam and Michelle together, they probably have. Who knows.

Where he has or not hooked up with others, I strongly feel that I have a hold on him. I think he really likes me.

I thought of the things he’s said.
Like when I said I liked how he said “doctor”. He was so thrilled and said he wanted to just say that word for two days.

One time he said he like Robert’s sense of humour. It brightened his day. I said, Aww…he’s your sunshine? Then he said he liked me cheery walk, it brightened his day. I said Am I your sunshine too? He agree I think. Then I said, you are my…bird shirt. He said, at least I’m something to you.

One time I said I have never had met a guy with a bird shirt, the day he wore a bird shirt. He was thrilled. Later when he came over for dinner, he cut the onion into a bunny shape. When he was leaving, I said, Thanks for cutting the onion into a bunny shape! He said, No one has ever said that to me!

The fact that he cut the onions into a bunny shape! He has to like me, right? He wanted to know if I kept it. He was thrilled that I took a photo and even named it Bunion! He laughed. When he was over he mentioned it again. He obviously like it a lot.

I know these are small things. But I feel that there’s mutual desire to espress to each other that we like and care about each other.

When I showed him my bunny Pom Pom and the giraffe, I can see he was thinking that Alex gave them to me. I said, My friend made the giraffe for me. He cautiously didn’t assume gender.

When I commented on Brian changing in front of his window, Sam fell silent. Or when I laugh at other people jokes. I think I felt his jealousy.

Sometimes he deliberately ignores me and talks to Robert. Maybe it’s his British way to act the opposite of what he feels, so as to hide it. I hope that goes away. Usually he is pretty sweet to me.

I want alone time with Sam. But I feel that he’ll make it impossible. I think he does respect the fact that I have a boyfriend.

I want him to read to me in a private setting though! Just me and him. In bed. Not with other people.

I want to get to know his mind. I’m curious about him.

I want us to be closer. And be good to each other.

Food poisoning

My stomach didn’t feel so great after dinner last night. Dunno if it’s the meal that Robert cooked or my chicken, or the watermelon that Sam brought.

I felt so depleted all day!

I hardly ate.

In the afternoon, I said yes to Dan’s invitation to dinner. Right after me, Sam said yes. That was a nice surprise. But at the same time, it hurts to know that he (possibly) hooked up with Michelle at some point.

It didn’t work out very well tonight. He came, I was still working, and he just ignored me and talked to Robert for ten minutes. Didn’t ask how I was doing. I walked away midway through his story.

I think I acted a little bit worse than I felt. I wasn’t sure about him anymore. Alex is my love. My bunny is there for me.

Sam tried to show compassion later on. We chatted for a bit in the hallway. Robert was going out to jazz. I was partly hoping that Sam would stay. But there’s no way. He didn’t even wait for me to finish the story. He felt that he had to leave with Robert, even though he wasn’t going to jazz.

People are starting to pair up. Brian and Pia – what an unexpected pairing. Rebecca and Fred – another unexpected pairing!

It would be very painful to see Michelle and Sam pair up. But it could very well happen. I need to be prepared for it.

This is a potentially hard situation! Living with a group of people for a month. Hot bed for relationships and/or hookups. And jealousy.

It could go well or go badly for either a single person or an attached person.

Think about Merling. She was having a great time with Brian. I wasn’t sure if Brian knew that she was attached. Either way, it’d suck for Brian when Merling’s boyfriend visits us. But not so fast! He hooked up with Pia two days ago! Just before Merling comes back! What a turn of events!

Dear God, I know you have my best interest in heart. I know you love me. And I love you.

I want to have a happy memory here. I want to go back to Alex happily too, without guilt. Basically, I want to have some platonic fun with Sam. Some special moments. Know that we like each other but don’t need to act on it.

But it’s ok if we don’t. I don’t want to share my Amazon info with him anyway, haha.

But I’d love to have fun on the safari with him. I don’t want my mood to be ruined. I want it to be amped.

 

Astounding news

Pia snuck out of the bedroom last night and didn’t come back ’til around 5am this morning. I was very confused.

Now I learned that she was cuddling with Brian last night! Omg!

I’m happy for them, though a bit sad for her boyfriend back home. Though they are not in the committed stage yet anyway.

She brought me the sad news though….she said it’s the most hook-up chapter ever…I asked who else? She said Rebecca and Fred, and Michelle and Sam. Whaaat!

I did see Michelle totally going after Sam. And part of me knows that he wanted to meet someone and likely will, and could break my heart that way.

Pia said she doesn’t know for sure, just that Michelle went to his place when Kevin and his gf Michelle were away.

Just when I thought Sam really liked me. Sigh. But I can’t blame him. He is single and wants to meet someone. I’d never hook up with him.

It does make me sad, but at the same time I feel that he likes me a lot. I am magical in ways that Michelle will never be.

Yesterday Robert cooked us dinner. Me, Sam, and Ashley. It was fun. Sam asked how I’d like the onions cut. I said, into the same of bunnies. And he did that.

Later he asked if I kept it cuz he couldn’t find it. I didn’t keep it (it’s a fucking piece of onion!). It was just somewhere on the counter haha. But I did take a picture. I sent it to him this morning and told him I named it Bunion. He sent me the laugh-cry and heart-eyed emoticons.

It felt weird to do it as that’s something only couples would do.

Alex hasn’t been the funnest or in an attractive state, and that makes us weak for sure.

Sam is super funny. I laugh so hard each time I see him. For the first time in my life, looks are totally not a concern here. He looks more attractive now than in the beginning for sure.

Ugh, just now I saw that Michelle is coming to the safari with us. I fear that it’s not going to be as fun a weekend as I hoped. He likely didn’t reject her when she went to his place, otherwise she wouldn’t still want to come to the safari.

I’m glad that Pia told me though. I don’t want to be a fool and still flirting with him. I will just be awesome and attractive.

I will try my best to not let that bother me. He is my lobster.

We are all independent and we can’t rely on people much. I can sort of count on Robert and Pia and Berta and Kent.

I like that Robert has a girlfriend. I’m not interested in him but I like him. Perhaps him and I can stick together as the only “taken” ones. We might be the only platonic and innocent ones here.

This is definitely an experience. I will never let Alex go to China on his own now haha.

At the same time, I will visualize Sam and I working out well, in a magical way. And an incredible weekend at the safari. And a great time in this chapter overall!

I know that he likes me. I’m quite certain that he would’ve tried if I were single. He notices and remembers little things about me. He is nicer and nicer to me.

 

Lobster

I think about him a lot today as I worked. In “How I met your mother”, a lobster is someone you want but can never have.

I want him to invite me to his place. I want him to take me out on a date.

We’ll just have fun. No physical contact.

He wants to find someone, clearly. And who knows. He might. Then I won’t be able to do the above with him.

But I’ll have faith that things will turn out as I hoped or even better.

We’ll adore each other. We’ll treat each other well. We’ll laugh lots and have an amazing time together!

Dancing day and Wine tasting day

Oh my, what a fun day today.

Well, let’s start with last night. It was Kevin’s birthday. For some reason I avoided Sam. I was tired of making so much effort to get closer to him. Also I realized that everyone loved him too and that made me not want to make such a big effort.

We went out to dance. I looked good in makeup, black tank, dark grey warp skirt and long wavy blond hair.

Kent was really nice to me as usual. He got me some jager. I have to say I was hooked. I did not feel tired at all! And I woke up feeling pretty awesome!

The music was fun. The band was very talented. The “DJ” was playing from his laptop as well beating drums. The other two members were playing all sorts of musical instruments I’ve never seen.

Sam joined us at La Parada later on. I avoided him a bit. I didn’t like that Michelle was all over him. I’m not the only person who thought he was funny. Many people are attracted to him. Guys and girls.

I’ve never been so attracted to someone who isn’t very good looking. But he is so funny. I’m laughing so hard when with him. He makes me wonder if I should find someone who makes me laugh this hard all the time.

So today, we went wine tasting. I ignored him again. But, when we had to hop on buses, I made sure that I got on the same bus as him. It’s always fun when he is there.

We were a big group of 50 people! Half are Wifi Tribe, half are from all over. Some were from Nomad meetup group.

We laughed lots on the bus. A non-triber was on the bus with us, so we asked to hear his life story. It turned out to be painfully detailed. But we had fun mocking him lol.

When he said he was from Black Forrest, Germany, Sam asked if it was enchanted and if it had tiny pterodactyls. He was referencing the trip we took to the botanical garden. We call many of the sites “enchanted”, including the toilets. He had asked me something about my favorite thing to ride I think. I said a pterodactyls. It was another fun day. Of course only I got the joke. So I felt special.

We had 3 wineries today. At the first one, Sam and Robert sat together and I sat across from them. I ended up talking to Sam the most. We were bored with drinking and noticed that there was an inflated castle nearby. We left our bags with Robert, and we went to play on the castles.

It was honestly the funnest part of the day. We were like two little kids. We went through all of the inflated structures. At the end we were racing towards the finshing point. We play fought a bit, trying to slow each other down. He grabbed my waist and pulled me down. I can’t remember what I did to him. I didn’t do much because I didn’t want to flirt. But it was super fun.

I can’t believe we were spending time together like this. I really like him. And I think he likes me too.

There was a market too. I bought a box of 29 magic tricks. It was R200 but the guy made me laugh so much I had to buy it. Also I wanted to learn how to do those tricks!

I think I thoroughly entertained the bus by showing them the magic trick box I bought. Haha. I love myself. I’m so fun and unique ahaha.

The second winery was beautiful. It’s a resort hotel at the same time. It has beautiful chandeliers and barrels. Sam, Ashley and I stood around the wine barrel and sipped wine. We laughed so much. Every wine reminded Sam of a lover or a sailor or some forbidden love. Hahah. I can’t help but wonder if he was referring to us. I wonder if he knows that I have a boyfriend. I think he does.

Ashley mentioned that Robert had guessed that she was 33. I told them that I was 37. Sam was quite surprised. But nothing changed, I don’t think. He liked me more if anything. It seemed. (But later tonight I learned that he is 26! Holy shit. Not sure what to think of that. I know we can never work with this age gap. Then again, we can’t work just anyway. I have Alex.)

We hung out in the courtyard for a bit. Sam and I looked at a tree and I dared him to climb it. He actually did! But it was hard to climb. I jumped up to try to reach the chestnuts. He run-jumped and reached them. Said they were pretty securely attached. Ahahah.

He poked my waist and said I was bad influence on him, that I made him do bad stuff. I realized just now that he does do a lot of things I dare/ask him to. I guess that shows he likes me. That made my day.

We spent so much time together, at one point Sam said he wanted to socialize with other people a bit even though they all looked boring. I didn’t really care to. None of them looked interesting. None were cute. But makes sense that he wanted to do that.

We sat together again for lunch but didn’t talk much.

On the way to the third place, everyone was tired. Even Kent fell alseep! Robet was sitting beside me, awake. I was feeling fine. Sam and Fred were falling asleep beside us.

We got to the third place. There was a giant oak tree there. Sam said it would be fun to climb it. He refers a lot to our day at the botanical park where we climbed a tree and talked about pterodactyls and land whales. He either has a great memory or thinks back a lot to that day.

I noticed he said I was naughty a few times. It sounds extra scandalous when he says it, in his British accent.

We didn’t sit together at the third place, but we were again in the same bus on the way back. He sat by the driver. I sat behind him.

I was having a ton of fun. Wine didn’t make me tired today! I got a giant white balloon, I was joking around with everyone in the bus. I talked to the girl beside me with very unique eyes.

We made a pitch stop at a grape field for some photo ops. I took my balloon out and pretended to be Instafamous. Sam took a picture of me. He took pictures of me when I was running down towards him (unknowingly) earlier today too.

As I hugged the balloon in the car, Pia joked about what would happen if the window was closed and the helium balloon was popped. We’d all have high pitched voice!

Moments later, my balloon suddenly popped! Aww. Window was open though. No one was making high pitch sounds haha.

Sam turned around to talk to me. It was a very cute conversation. He asked questions that I think one would only ask if they like the person. He asked me things like, what’s utopia for you. Asked if I like lobsters again. I remembered that he wrote a story about a lobster and a narwhal being best friends. I asked if that’s why he likes Robert so much. He said (I think) that he meant me being the narwhals. And asked if I like narwhals. I said, sure, they have the horn. And we both said, “Like a sea unicorn!” and laughed. Considering how little time we’ve spent together, we are starting to make quite a few of the same jokes.

He said the horn is used to break ice. We joked about how the horn is used to make mojitos and to help the narwhal make friends.

I love having this type of conversations with him. Oh and I told him about my idea of us being immortal and living with amnesia. He just listened intently.

I felt like we were having a date. Except once in a while I’m reminded we are not alone when Pia would join our conversation ahaha.

Oh and I asked him what Utopia is like for him. He said probably like the Beach, that movie about living together in a secret society. I immediately said something about how the girl cheated on her bf in the group and that would ruin things.

Gosh I want to spend more time with him. He had quit his job and and is going to sell on Amazon! He is going to Canton Fair in April. He seems to have no financial worries. Not sure why. Maybe his family has money.

But he is only 26. What a shock.

Sam is rare. Pretty sure he is full of issues though. I remember the second time we met, I commented on his perfect teeth. He said yeah but I’d rather have bad teeth that can be fixed than other issues. I wonder what it is. Someone who meditates so much probably has something.

But, I’d love to be with someone who makes me laugh all the time.

Maybe Sam and I can be good friends. I just want to spend time with him and have his affection and attention. And laugh lots together. I have that need for physical contact and affection from someone. In this group, he is the best, so I want it from him. It brings me more joy than anything…to have the love and affection from someone I adore.

I hope Alex gets funnier as he becomes more relaxed and catches up on sleep! I’m sure he can be nurtured.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Africa: Two Weeks in

It’s been almost two weeks! It’s been quite fun. Not super productive, but I will be.

I sometimes miss my Alex Bunny. Yesterday I missed him so much I cried. (Period coming soon.)

At the same time, I’ve unexpectedly become attracted to Sam. He is not very cute, but he is very funny.

I feel very weird and guilty for being attracted to him.

I think he is attracted too, but he acts in a very weird way towards me. Sometimes it almost seems like he ignores me on purpose. I don’t like it. I’m glad Bunny is my real love.

I hope Sam stops acting like that, and become nice consistently. I want to spend more time with him. To laugh lots and to learn his funny ways.

He seems to want to spend time with me but he hides it. He likes hanging out with Robert a lot. The other day they were heading out and Sam made a point to come up. That made me think he kinda like me.

The fact that him and Robert joined us for the hop-on hop-off tour. That was good too. But I still remember when he showed up he ignored me and went straight for Robert. Very odd.

And yesterday, he came over because Robert had cooked for several people. A cute gesture. I was in the kitchen and Sam just left and went to the balcony. Weird. I went to work on the balcony. Berta was talking on the phone. For a brief moment, Berta left. Sam immediately started asking me how my day was. But then Berta came back right after haha.

I did sit next to him for a bit and we laughed about the people replying to his VA job post. I felt something there. We laugh lots together.

Then when I noticed he had no work to do, I asked if he wanted to meditate.

We went into our room and I set him up. He was so polite. Almost nervous-like.

Later on he came out and he didn’t get any birds from using Muse, lol. I can’t help but thought he was affected by me. But he seemed upset that he didn’t get any bird. He wanted to buy a Muse now. He decided to go home. Not sure if it’s because he didn’t do well on the Muse meditation. If that was the case then there’s something quite wrong with him. There definitely seems to be something complex about him. I’m curious to find out more.

But really he is so funny. One of the funniest guys I know.

I hope Alex is funny once he is no longer stressed! One more day and his roommate will be gone! I hope he becomes funny and fun and relaxed once again.

 

 

 

Moving in with Alex

Alex and I have been doing better lately. At least, the past week. It was as though something had shifted within me. Or I was in a better mood after my period had started. I don’t know what it was. But I felt more joyful and happy around him. And he seemed more joyful and less drained too.

I’m moving in with him after I come back from South Africa. We are likely going to start a business together.

These are all things that I wouldn’t normally do after meeting someone for less than 4 months. It’s not because I’m so certain about us. It’s almost as though fate caused this to happen.

The way the first date went really well. The way that he ran into me after second date, no hair no makeup. The fact that he lost his job 2 weeks into our relationship, and stayed with me for 2 weeks. How his roommate and job drained him, the way he handled stress, which cause me to figure that the only way is to move in with him, to help him and to help give our relationship its best chance. The fact that he has no savings, and I hate that he doesn’t have money to enjoy life more, caused me to suggest starting a business together.

It is as though that God wants us to be together.

The wedding song was in my head tonight for some reason. I thought about whether we’ll get married. I realized that I’d only want to marry him if we are both doing well financially.

Why? Because it’s important to me that he can earn a living. A guy is much more attractive when he can thrive in this world instead of just survive. And I need to know that he has money to take care of himself and to sustain our fun lifestyle, and to spoil me once in a while.

Not to mention, having no money is stressful, and it forces you into situations such as having to work full time at a job that isn’t great. He is not very good with stress. It impacts our relationship.

Also, money allows for greater self expression. He dreams a lot, but he hasn’t been able to realize his dreams.

Having money will help our relationship out a lot. At any age, but especially at this age.

He is not perfect. Far from it. But there are key important characters about him that make him special to me.

We will make lots of money. Our love, our marriage, our life experience, our happiness, require that we make lots of money. 6 figures each, ideally 7 figures together.

God, I feel that you want us to be together. I hope this means you want us to get rich together too.

Please give us a helping hand, and allow us to live our dreams! Thank you thank you thank you 😀

Metrics: What to know?

From 2017 to now:

  1. For each design, size, color (rank by each) and for each channel and region. Month to month data (to see the trend)
    1. traffic
    2. traffic from each source (FB, IG, etc)
    3. conversion rate
    4. repeat customer rate
    5. product return rate
    6. ad spend
    7. revenue
    8. profit margin
    9. ranking for major keywords
    10. keywords generating revenue? Can we see this in the PPC download file?
  2. Product sales: which products take up what % of sales

Main data I want to get right now is:

  1. What designs, sizes, colors are the most popular so we can use this data for future designs
  2. Which ones to eliminate (are the metallics return rate too high? giving us bad reviews?)
  3. What’s the overall trend
  4. Conversion rate, ranking, traffic, sales – see what it is now so I can see if the changes we make this month will improve this number

 

 

 

 

Monthly:

  1. Teach VA to compile the metrics data
  2. Ad spend and conversion rate
  3. Sales compared to last year and the year before (same time last year)
  4. Revenue compared to last year and the year before
  5. Traffic compared to last year and the year before
  6. SEO and Amazon ranking
  7. document my changes (such as adding keywords) so to track effectiveness

 

3 month anniversary

Alex and I celebrated our 3 month anniversary. It feels like we’ve been together for much longer than that! In reality we haven’t even been togethr for 2 months, because I was in Taiwan for 3 weeks. And we missed 1 week when we nearly broke up.

It’s kind of been bitter sweet.

Really, if he has a career, and has good income and good savings, this relationship is good and we could’ve avoided a lot of struggles.

But I know that I’ve said in the past, I just want someone who loves me. And loyalty is the most important thing. And the guy doesn’t have to be perfect. Also, he has everything I asked for on my wish list.

He has blue eyes, nice body, tall, our sex life is pretty good (though right now he is stressed), looks young for his age, pretty smart, pretty funny, is 5 languages of love, has common sense, and is considerate.

Is he good for me though? Do I like who I am when I’m with him? I think these are very important questions.

As much as I like his place, and how it’d solve his problem of having bad roommates, and how I’d get to be downtown, and how we’d see each other more often…I’m very unsure about moving in with him.

He was super stressed and not horny yesterday, because of his roommate issue. He gave him the notice yesterday, and almst forgot that it was our anniversary. I felt that he can’t seem to handle issues or stress very well. That is a problem.

At the same time he was very sweet, attentive, holding the umbrella for me, was gonna take me to Season’s in the Park, the most romantic restaurant in the city! We went to Stanely Park to see some Xmas lights. It was lame. I suggested we go to Van du Sen Gardens to see more lights. It was much more beautiful there.

We had a romantic walk amongs the beautiful lights. All is well. He seemed tired so we decided to go to a Starbucks nearby, and to go to Sandbar for a romantic dinner.

At Starbucks, we were playing a game of staring. I asked that we play a game where we start out smiling. He didn’t want to do that. He just wouldn’t smile. Then I got pissed. I held down my anger though. We drove to Granville Island in silence. After I parked, he asked, Are you sure you want to date me? We talked it through, and was ok. But, I didn’t like that he was so unwilling to cooperate, and so willing to give up. Sigh. But at least we didn’t let it ruin the night. We made out some in the car, then walked to the restaurant.

We were lucky again in getting a very nice spot by the fireplace at Sandbar. Last month before going to Taiwan and China, we got a sweet spot in a restaurant in North Van too. The mood was amazing, with the fireplace, live piano music and great singing by the panist! We were sweet to each other. He was smiling. I think he was making an effort.

We discovered the day before that the psychotic woman he dated was Agnus, the girl that Jeffrey dated before me! I want to beat her up for hurting Alex and Jeffrey! So we talked about her yesterday. We talked about Alex’s Japanese girl friend after her too. It was weird talking about ex’s so much yesterday.

We came home. I was horny because it’s been 2 weeks since I saw him and 3 weeks since we had proper sex. Sex was pretty good. I think I came 3 or 4 times. He didn’t come. He wasn’t horny. But he did try his best at pleasing me.

Sleep was fine. He was so tired. I didn’t toss and turn and wake him up this time.

Ths morning was good too. We photographed his hands. He helped me with the lighting too. He was very good. And he showed me his bike tutor videos. I had more respect for him because bikes are more complex than I realized. And also, he looked so cute in the video!

My main conerns for this relationship:
1. I feel that I want him to have certain things that he does not have. Money. As in, good income and savings.
2. He gets stressed easily. Doesn’t seem to be very good at handling a stressful situation.
3. We probably can’t be a power couple. He is too gentle and not ambitious.
4. 5 years from now, will he have made the money? If so, what would our life be like?
5. Is he fun?
6. Can we travel together?
7. 20 years from now, will he have made the money? If not, will I have to pay for everything? Like Mia does.
8. Do I want to be more like him in any way? Because we’ll become more and more like each other.

Because he is so stressed right now, we are not having a ton of fun.
Because he is so poor right now, we are not having a lot of fun.
And he is stressed because he made some bad decisions and remains poor.
And he is not very good at managing his stress, thus making some bad decisions.
I almost wonder if he is unsuccessful because he’s not very good at managing stress.

But he does have potential. He’s made two successful websites. Made lots of videos.

If I believe in him, it’ll help him reach his full potential.
If I support him, it’ll help him achieve too.
I need to be more patient and less critical of him, to do the above.
And we’ve had a fun date. He has a fun side. We can have fun together I’m sure. We’ll build more fun chemistry together given more time. Plus his current stressers will pass.
Is he good for me? I don’t know. I feel that so far he hasn’t been particularly good.
Though he’s been very caring and loving. That’s really nice.
That in itself is very beautiful and rare.

Ugly Xmas Sweater Party; 3 Month anniversary coming

Oh Alex and I have not been doing well. I asked for a sign if I should be with him and got this….I wonder if this means he is not the one…sigh.

It’s only been <3 months! Why on Earth is it so difficult?

It all started with his roommate. What a fuckhead. He is ruining us.

Basically he woke Alex up between 3~5 am 3 times this past week. Alex was a zombie. I learned today that he didn’t just do that becaus he was tired. He needed time to himself. Sigh. He has that all week! But he was too tired after work each day of the week.

But if it’s not meant to be, it’s not meant to be. Imagine how bad it’d be if I moved in.

Sometimes I feel that he is more trouble than he’s worth. I’ve been sad so much this past week or two.

He is special to me because he was all 5 languages of love. And he had a good temper. And sex was good. But even all these are changing lately because he is tired and stressed. And he seems to get tired and stressed easily.

My feelings for him come in waves. Sometimes I love him, sometimes I feel nothing. Sometimes I think of him as a loser. I seldom admire him. That’s probably not a good sign. I’m not very proud of him. I try my hardest, but I did not fully convince myself. I guess I’m proud of him for always listening to me and taking action on them. Except for the roommate situation.

Also, Ireally want a guy who is more stable financially, and growing his career in a good way. Man, who knew that these things would be so important!

Ideally I want a guy who is better at business than me, so I can learn from him!

Man, if a guy is older instead of younger than me, it’s lamer that he needs to learn from me!

I was so hurt that Alex didn’t have it in him to see me this weekend. Worse yet, he didn’t message me cute things in the morning like he did the past 3 weeks.

Today, we talked on the phone and almost got into a fight. On Saturday, he agreed to let me help him look for a roommate. Today, he said he just agreed to think about it. WTF. When I told him the good news of all the potential renters I found, and how Cyndi has been helping me, he got stressed.

Does he ever get stressed easily. It’s like my anger.

Times like this I feel that he is such a loser. And I can’t stand that he can’t fix his situation. And I can’t stand that he won’t let me fix his situation either.

I’m ready to end this. It’s not gonna be easy, because, well, I thought he was the one.

But he is not.

I can’t change the fact that he is a loser. A self-justified loser. But then I guess that’s what losers do. Always finding excuses for why they had to change course. They are just running away from problems.

Please, God, I don’t want this relationship to end before I go to South Africa. I want it to be peaceful, amicable. In South Africa, if I find someone good, or not, I will end it when I get back. It’ll be better that way.

It’s partially in my control. I won’t pressure him to find a new roommate. I won’t even talk about these things.

We’ll be celebrating our anniversary next weekend. Please, please let it be fun.