My boyfriend still hasn't disappointed, yay!! After visiting my hometown I finished the rest of my holiday visits and then drove up to Denton to spend New Year's Eve with J. He was planning on introducing me to all of his great friends, so I was pretty nervous, but the night went well. They all partied well into the night and J got drunk, but we got a bed for the evening so I was okay. I couldn't ever live in a house like that, and I wouldn't have stayed if I'd had other options. Oh well, it was fun regardless.
The next day J and I went to the mall and tried shopping around, but didn't have any luck. We went to dinner that night with his mom, step-dad, half-sister, step-mom and half-brother. At this point I still hadn't met his dad, but dinner was fun.
I spent January 2 - January 11 in/traveling to and from Atlanta, Georgia, for a community service project. J and I texted and occasionally talked throughout the week. When I got back, J was so excited to see me that we immediately hung out. Our first plan was to go see Youth in Revolt, so we did that then had some dinner. I met his father this night, and I was really nervous but his dad seemed nice enough.
We had a tiny rough patch last night when we'd planned to watch two movies together, him spend the night, then we go see a movie in the morning before he went to work. He got here much later than planned, told me he wouldn't be spending the night, and I was kind of upset. I had been planning on him staying. Though I understood his reasoning (he can't get a good night's sleep sharing the twin bed) it still sucked to hear. We watched one movie and then went out to eat where he informed me that he was going to hang out with his friends once we were finished. I wasn't too excited about that, and I didn't lie when he asked me if I was upset. I also understood that he wanted to hang out with his friends - I'm not the type to say a guy can't go hang with his friends. I think I was most upset about us making plans and then him just changing them all. Either way, he left. He later texted me and asked if I minded if he came back over. I didn't mind, I said, but I didn't want him to feel like I was taking him away from his friends. He said he would either come to see me or go home, but he was leaving his friend's regardless, so I told him to come see me again. We had some fun and he genuinely felt bad about ditching me.
Tonight he got off work early and showed up unexpectedly with some beautiful peach roses. I'm sure it's one of those "I'm sorry" things, but goodness I love it when he gets me flowers. Flowers are such a nice thing to have in the room. I can see that J really does care about me, but he wasn't lying when he told me upfront that he makes mistakes. I've never wanted to seem like/be the controlling type, and I don't think I am, but I'm glad I stood up for myself and didn't lie to him when he asked if I was upset the other night. I want to be completely honest in this relationship, and that includes not hiding your real feelings, I think. Goodnight for now, will post pictures of the new flowers later.
EDIT (January 16, 2010, 8:47pm)
Here are the flower photos I promised :)
This is the first batch of flowers he brought me. They were so beautiful and totally unexpected.
This is the second batch of flowers, also beautiful! He said he wanted to get me purple ones but that these were the prettiest. The one that looks all dried up really is - I dried one from the first batch to save! I'll do the same with one from this batch :)