To Be In Love (or something like that)

Hello all,
I never thought that I'd be posting something along these lines (I know...never say 'Never'), but I have to say that I've been truly blessed lately. I've just reconnected with someone that I hadn't really been talking to and I decided to go pay her a visit a couple of weekends ago. I had a really wonderful time with her and we decided to start dating. I flew her down for this past weekend and again, had a really wonderful time. I haven't really had a real relationship in over a year, so this has been really refreshing for me. Without getting into too much detail, I can say that we've really hit it off and have hit the ground running, so to speak. I feel for the first time that I've received the 'shot in the arm' I've been looking for.
She has also made me realize a few things that I do subconsciously (and that I hope to correct). For example, I like to use the adjective "G0D D@&#" quite a bit and she calls me on it every single time. I hope to change that and find another, more colorful way of expressing myself without taking the Lord's name in vain (subconsciously or not). Also, when she is telling me something, I sometimes inject a story about a similar situation that happened to me and tend to go off on a tangent (again, something I'm working on). I'm glad that someone is honest enough with me to say "would you quit doing that?" if I'm doing something that is truly annoying. I can never be accused of being perfect (not too many of us can be), but I like to think that if something about me is flawed and that the flaw is such that it would be something that would bother me, then it's obviously time for me to correct that behavior.
I think that being with someone as forthright as that can only do one some good and if someone would get offended and think that the other person is just picking on them about it just 'for the hell of it' needs to take a real hard look at themselves. People as a whole are quick to look at someone else as the scapegoat when something goes wrong their lives instead of internalizing this feeling and looking to see if, in fact, that they themselves may have been the one to cause the situation. In a perfect world, people would be able to realize this and act upon it, but as I said earlier, not too many people can be accused of being perfect, so there goes that theory.
I just want to say before I close that I've really enjoyed the time that I've spent with my new girlfriend and look forward to spending more time with her and enjoying her company (I'll be going to spend the holiday weekend with her).

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I found this on my friend Ellen's blog. Enjoy (and thanks Ellen)

Girlfriend's Best Friends

Hi there,
I know I haven't posted in a while (almost a year to be exact) but I have to get something else off my chest. I have a friend (names will not be used to protect the innocent) who has just started dating someone (I haven't met her yet, but I hear she's quite nice), and for someone unknown reason, this girlfriend's best friend is running her mouth on her blog because my buddy and his girlfriend have been spending a lot of time together and instead of being happy for them, she'd rather bitch and moan about the fact that she finds them boring and doesn't want to hang out with her best friend anymore because of it. If she were a color, it'd be green (as in envy), because she doesn't have what her best friend has. I know I'll probably catch hell if someone of religious conviction were to read this, but I'll say it anyway; "Get off the cross, because someone else needs the wood." I know there are probably better ways to express my contempt towards this woman (and I use that term rather loosely) but the above was the best way that I could think of for this particular situation. I think that there should be a rule put into law that best friends should keep out of each other's relationships unless it is absolutely necessary for them to butt in (i.e. if the friend involved in the relationship is being abused and just doesn't get the fact that the person that they're with is no good). I'm usually a pretty private person by nature, but when I see (or hear) something that really irritates the shit out of me, I have no choice but to "nut up" and say something about it. I don't know if this woman that I'm referring to will ever come across this entry but if she does, 1) I don't apologize for a damn thing that I've written here, and 2) You're in more dire need of a hobby than any human being in the history of civilization. So my advice to her would be, to quit the high school BS and start worrying more about her own affairs instead of making hurtful social commentary about someone she considers to be her bestfriend (and that tough-love excuse isn't going to cut it here) and her perception of her bestfriend's life since she has started dating. Life is too damned short to be whining like a little bitch all the time.