whoa!  talk about slackin... saying "it's been too long since i've written" is an understatement.  i have no excuses, i'm just a bad bad blogger.  i think i need a spanking.

anyway... what's been going on?  well, first of all, and most importantly, the boyfriend is long gone.  now that i look back, i feel stupid about how insanely patient i was with him.  i thought it would work out of i showed him that i'm not like girls that have dogged him in the past, i'm trustworthy, blah blah blah.  BUT none of that seemed to matter.  the fact that i got an account on a forum he frequents was the "last straw", apparently.  how retarded is that?  he thinks this constitutes spying on him.  whatever, dude, you need to relax.  just checking it out because it interests you and you interested me.  besides, the only reason *I* would be worried about someone coming into a forum is because i was saying things i didn't want them to see.  so, what does he do?  he decides to not call, email or IM me back... at all... for over a month.  so yeah, that's a done deal.  we won't talk about him anymore because...

started talking to this amazingly cool guy.  there's a website called jeepingsingles.net.  i got an account there like a year ago, got bored with it & stopped posting.  then a couple weeks ago, i got a message from someone from jeepingsingles: a jeeper boy in michigan.  so, we've been talking at least some every day since then... some days it's been for hours (when he REALLY should be in bed!   .  so far, this dude is too perfect to be real.  he grew up on farms (like me), he's got a silly sense of humor (like me), he's super fun to talk to, he's got a cool jeep   i just love talking to him.  normally i get nervous when someone from online wants to talk to me on the phone (not that i've met a ton of people online... but it has happened) but w/ this guy i wasn't nervous at all. 

i think, to protect the innocent, i will give the jeeper boy a code name.  let's go with bo (and if he ever reads this i think he just might know why i picked that name).  okay, so bo very quickly decided we need to meet.  and why not?  i'm pretty bitchin'.  yeah... so anyway, this makes me a tad nervous, but not nearly as nervous as it has before.  there's just something about his guy that puts me at ease or doesn't "scare" me or something.  so, we decide he's going to come here in a month.  the more we talk, the more i realize that that's too long to wait.  then i realize that i have a weekend free sooner!  yay!  cartwheels in the streets!  we're gonna meet sooner!  we're going to meet up at about halfway between here & there.  i can't freakin' wait!  i feel like i'm like 15 again with a silly ass crush.  but it sure is fun!

i don't normally like to over-plan things or put too many expectations on events but i must admit there is one thing i'm trying to plan that i want to be really great.  i'm sure it will be, there's not much that could totally ruin it (barring a typhoon or swarm of locusts).  i think it would be just awesome for us to meet for the first time at this park on lake michigan.  how cool would that be?  with the lake in the background, in a nice quiet state park... i think it'll kick ass.  so that's the only real plan I'VE got for the weekend. 

so, i've got that "i've met someone totally cool that i really like talking to & want to spend some time with" excitement going on.  it rocks.