Hey all- Just wanted to give you a little update. I think something pretty huge happened last night when I went to H's to pick up the dog. We had been chatting a lot yesterday because I had my interview in the morning and when I got on the computer afterwards, H IMed wanting to know how it all went. So when I went to get the dog we were still chatting a lot and things were going well. In terms of the H personality, I was deinitely dealing with the old H last night, which is such a rare and awesome treat! So H and I went out for food and he wanted me to tell him about my interview 'from start to finish'. He has been so supportive and helpful through all of this; I'm basically doing a 180 career change and pursuing a dream. So the visit was great, lots of little inadvertant touches and he was very sparkly and loving. At one point we were sitting on the floor at his apartment and when he got up he reached out his hand to help me up--lots of nice little touches like that.
So, okay, here's the huge part. He bought this big old desk a few weeks ago and has been working on stripping and re-furbishing it. I asked him how it was going, and he took me into the room to show it to me. He was talking about what he might do when it was stripped. I was asking him questions and just generally listening and being interested in him. Then he said, 'you know, I wanted to apologize to you. I never gave you and your design ideas enough credit and I'm really sorry. You are actually very talented. I have been feeling bad because I've been asking L for help with designing my apartment, and I realized that I should have been asking you too. So if you have any ideas for me, I'd love to hear them.' Whoa, I was blown away. I just smiled really warmly and said thank you and it really meant a lot to me, and that I would certainly be thinking about his place and any ideas for it. Inside I was jumping up and down and doing backflips. This was an amazing thing for him to say. The career change I'm trying to make is to get into design. This is something I've always wanted to do, but really lacked the confidence to go for it. And H didn't help. He gave me a hard time about everything little thing that I wanted to do to our house. And kind of put down my ideas, or at the very least just blew me off. And then was always throwing in my face how he worked with these two graphic designers and how talented they were. Then when he started talking about getting his own place, one of the designers, L, was helping him design his place. This was a major blow to my ego, but I never once let him know that. I laughed and joked with him about having a designer for his apartment and told him how cool that was. So, he must be doing some serious thinking over there in that place of his all alone to come up with such a wonderful and complimentary thing to say. It really did blow me away.
That's all for now, just wanted to share my happy moment.
