She has been with her boyfriend for a year, and they seem happy. They look worn-out, tired and stressed, but even after he comes out of the bathroom, he comes over to where she's sitting and rubs her shoulders if he thinks she looks tense. When all four of us are walking down the street, he holds her hand or puts his arm around her waist. Tom and I ( Read more... )

I love having everything separate from him. My Facebook, my Myspace, my Livejournal - everything is as it should be, with no ties to him or his friends. I can post freely about what I think and feel and not have to worry about someone else's little voice in the back of my head telling me I'm a liar.

I have been getting up early in the mornings and ( Read more... )

I can't believe I'm getting into sitcoms that I used to think were clichéd, ike Everybody Loves Raymond or How I Met Your Mother. I can understand why I'm watching shows that remind me of home (Black Books, The IT Crowd, Gavin and Stacey etc), but it only hit me as I was composing this post ( Read more... )

...I mean movies that make you think. With me, it's often the unlikeliest ones that stir something in me. It's like a train wreck of ideas that I might get excited about because it means there's some kind of amazing change to look forward to, even though I'm not hugely fond of change ( Read more... )

I've been going in and out of phases where I miss Tom a lot. What sucks is that we're both getting on each others' nerves !so much! lately that we appear to have indulged in some puerile phone-hanging-up games on each other. I'm aware that, looking back on this, I could laugh this off as some silly "old married couple" rhetoric (well, we did sort ( Read more... )