Me and Mine

Hello!
Guess what! I graduated!! Hooray!
Graduation rocked! Well.. Kinda. My feet were killing me by the end. My mom bought me a pretty new dress to wear for it (which wasn't seen at all under my gown by the way) and I even got a delicious super awesome cake! Those chocolate cakes with the flakes from Costco, I highly recommend them, YUM!!
Curtis and his mom came over for dinner that night (I'll splain about Curtis in a minute) and then his sister and her husband and their baby came over for cake after. After that and a few pictures we were off to graduation. The ceremony was long and I was pretty bored with most of it, but I was so excited when I got to walk through the "C" and they handed me my diploma. After graduation Curtis and I went for a walk and a drive and got ice cream. We were both so excited and it was so nice to have a small piece of the crazy evening just with him. Grad night rocked too. I loved being with my pro start and ward friends one last time before we all went our separate ways.
The next day I went up to Salt Lake with my family and everyone in my extended family started asking me what I was going to do next. I guess I sort of had a "deer in the headlights" look and all I could say was "college". My sweet mom then took me aside and told me that my plans for June were just going to be getting up in the morning and going through my days. I had a really stressful last semester and it was time for a break. I feel very lazy and unaccomplished, but this has been so nice. Then I started framing pictures of cats (an entirely different story all in itself) so I am making a change to this routine this week and I'm going to start looking for jobs and other things to occupy my time. Apparently a night pharmacology class twice a week just isn't quite enough for me. 
So Curtis. I hate the term "boyfriend" but that's essentially what he is. I prefer the terms "man candy", "significant other", or simply "man" to describe him. We've been dating since... somewhere between September and Halloween. We aren't exactly sure when it totally started. Curtis and I met in the summer for 2007 when he and my brother, Dan, had just graduated from high school and I was just getting into high school. I didn't have a lot of friends quite yet because I was still pretty new to Cedar so Dan invited me to go do some things with him and a few of his friends. Curtis brought girls over to my house quite often and it drove me crazy. I didn't exactly have a crush on him I don't think (though I did think he was exceptionally handsome) but it annoyed me when he would give more attention to someone else. So I sat there quietly and occupied my time with other things. We did become very good friends throughout that year and I will admit I cried when he got his mission call. He was called to Spokane, Washington and left in September of 2008. We wrote hand written letters back and forth every week for those two years and we each still have all 104 letters from the other person. He came to see me the day after he got home and it was getting late and I was so angry he wasn't showing up sooner. I was sitting in a patio chair on the porch reading a book when he ran up the porch cause he knew I was sitting there. We did a spinny hug :) I know I was supposed to say a bunch of excited goopy things but all I could say was (not in a sweet way mind you) "What took you so long?!" and "Did you shrink?" He just laughed and hugged me, I'm so glad he's so patient with me.
We had a rough first couple months of him being home and adjusting, but it's been absolutely wonderful since then. I love spending time with him and being reminded every day of why he is my best friend.
I'm sure now I'm expected to go into a big shpeel justifying my choice to have such a peculiar relationship. Well I'm not. If someone can't handle this, then they need to go read someone else's blog. I'm happy with my choices and that's what counts. I wouldn't have it any other way :)