Glad to hear things are on the up-and-up for you Soli.
And great to hear about the relationship, a good relationship can really bring so much happiness into your life.
For me things are going very well, I've been in a really positive and thankful state of mind recently (as you can tell if you read the social thread
). Things are going well with my girl, we're getting closer and more at ease with each other and seeing each other quite a bit. It's funny, we started having sex immediately and that's always been really easy and natural but we both have a tendency to be a bit shy, and for myself, it's like the fact that I just met her online and it happened so fast led to a bit of awkwardness at first in terms of hanging out and talking... that's gone now, I'm very at ease with her and it's really cool.
She's met all of my close friends in town now and they all like her and she likes them... in fact one of my friends in particular LOVES her, she found another girl friend who hula hoops. There has still been no discussion about making anything official or anything like that... we haven't even discussed whether we're exclusive (though I'm not seeing anyone else and I really would be quite surprised if she is). It's really refreshing to me though, those are not things I feel like I need. It feels like this pure thing, unattached to any societal norms or expectations. I have a lot to learn about her still which is also cool... I realized when my friend was asking me questions about her that I don't know a huge amount about her... I just let her tell me stuff when she feels like it, and slowly I'm filling in the gaps, but I like this period of mystery, you can't ever get that back with someone. It's kinda perfect for me at this point in my life, I'm getting all the parts of a relationship that I actually want, and not the parts I don't. We see each other 3-4 times a week which always results in a sleepover, and then I get the other days to myself, and I value that a lot. She's a really independent and self-sufficient person, and wants to stay that way I can tell, and I feel the same way.
Last night I went to my friends' house, the guys I play music with, and they were auditioning a new set drummer... this guy is really cool and a very good drummer. I listened while they recorded their first jam/first time playing together and it was GREAT, it sounded even better in the recording than it did being in the room while they were playing. Then afterwards I jammed with all of them except the new drummer, on my djembe, and it was so much fun and also went really well. Their lead singer/face to the band is a cool guy but he's been sort of non-enthusiastic about me having any part in the band... recently he heard me singing along, I do this thing where I basically do guitar-solo-esque things with my voice, and suddenly he was like whoa, I think I want this guy's input. And last night I played with him on djembe and he was into that, he really liked one of his songs with a djembe rhythm rather than a set rhythm, as an alternate way to play it. So that made me feel good.
