Trying to make this quick as I need to jump on my homework but: I had an AWESOME weekend!

Tall Matt came home with me for the weekend and got to meet the whole immediate family and their significant others. Easter was a full house with around 20 people being in and out. Matt has approval of the family including the dog's. Bizzy, my very temperamental Staffordshire Terrier/Fox Terrier mix dog that is usually a spazz, dog smiled, wagged her tail and flopped over on her back when she met Matt. That is the best she has ever responded to ANYONE when she's first met them. Actually I think she fell in love with him...It was amazing.

The best part about Easter was Matt and I going on the 4 1/2 mile hike at a state park. The weather was gorgeous! (No pun intended for those that know the area I'm in.) We took Bizzy with us too. It was a good hike until we hit a set of stairs carved into the cliff face that were comparable to Cirith Ungol from The Lord of the Rings. These things were so steep that when you sat on a landing they looked like they just dropped off straight down. They were also very irregular. On the way down them I pretty much wanted to sit on my butt and just slide down. On the way up my thighs and calves hated me with a vengeance. Matt was just like "Whatever." Me "AAAAAGH! NOT ANOTHER SET!"
Even Bizzy was lagging by the end. Matt had her leash and would walk her ahead of me, motivating her onward and she would just stop and look back at me and then back at Matt like "If Loey isn't moving I'm not either. Matt, I love you but not that much."
It was a great time but once we got home Bizzy was in la-la land the whole rest of the evening. She couldn't have cared less what was going on. It was pretty funny but I think we overtaxed her.

I have to say by the end of the night I was very ready for bed myself. Matt and I slept together in the literal sense for the first time this weekend. Saturday night I will admit I didn't sleep much as is the first time I have had anyone in bed with me for the night in a looooooooooooooooooooooong time. All the careful shifting and awareness of the other person hardly leads to a good night's sleep. Oh yeah and we were in a twin bed. -.-
Last night I slept like a baby besides the random shifting. I was dead tired and full of food and more comfortable. Matt and I lay next to each other talking for a few minutes with our faces so close I could feel his eyelashes on my cheek. I couldn't help but smile. It felt intimate in a way that I have never appreciated before.
It was great to wake up with him the next morning and cuddle for a bit before emerging into the world.

Despite the pet peeves here and there I really do like him. As far as my heart goes I have been trying to take it slow and just live day to day, feel around him at the same time. I am starting to feel the mutualism and this weekend we bonded more. Yeah, I really really really like him. I think I can safely say I am starting to fall in love with him.
Does part of me wish this had happened earlier? Yes. But then maybe right now is the perfect time because I am genuinely happy and I have enough self-love to honestly share with someone else, specifically someone as good as he is. The past is behind me, the future ahead and the present always here so I am living in it and enjoy it and happy to have been gifted with him.
So yeah, I am feeling a bit mushy.

Here is a picture of the Man and Bizzy. I don't have one of Matt and myself as the first one ever was taken last night and mom hasn't sent it to me yet.


This is handsomness last week. I up-ed the contrast a little and made it black and white but as Matt's friend Jess commented, he looks like a sexy beast here, haha.


And now I really have to do my homework!
Peace.
~Lo