It was a really great end to a really long, not-so-great day…I don’t think any person in their right mind is ever particularly ecstatic about paying a whole lot of money for car repairs. I got a really sweet & surprising call from Heather though asking if I’d like to Skype (funny how this is now a verb, no?), and it really was just a perfect end to the day.
I think we’re getting the whole video chatting thing down pat now — originally it was hard to talk because we were both too busy being all smiley and shy, getting to see each other and all. We still do that though, probably me a little more often but what can I say…girl takes my breath away when I stop to truly take her in. Every time.
So yeah, conversation wasn’t exactly flowing because of that originally. Now we seem to have it going fairly well, and our own little routines. Her filing her nails, me fidgeting or checking something on one computer while talking. When you write it down like that it sounds silly, but it feels more like we’re in the same room together doing things and talking. I love it. Phone is good to for deeper conversations, sure, but I like the mix.
One of the things we do, I guess our “couple quirk” we have (doesn’t every couple have something that’s very them?) is we’ll joke with things we both know (ideally) are absolutely absurd. She’ll say she doesn’t even like me, and I’ll tell her she’s ugly. I can only imagine what a passerby would think hearing us, maybe they’d pick up on the love riding along the waves of our words and know we were being silly? More likely they’d be shocked and confused. Definitely haven’t gone so far as to post a joke like that on Facebook between one another!
Warm feelings, big happy smile right now. Listening to a John Mayer song Heather had me put on a CD for her while I was back in Wisconsin, “Comfortable,” which just fits the mood perfectly. Though I have no clue if the lyrics do, I kinda have a bad habit of liking a song for it’s feeling instead of it’s message. Perfect example? “No Way” by The Naked & Famous…song makes me feel like I’m in a dream, always think of sitting in a movie theatre with Heather and how excited I am to be beside her. Her voice whispering things, her hand touching mine, mine on her leg. Reflection of the movie screen in her eyes. A kiss. I love the build up and explosion of sound in the song, it’s a mix of romantic feelings and sexual energy to me.
Lyrics? The song’s about breaking up, basically. Or a one night stand. Something like that. Two people hooking up and then not being able to stay together. Irony, right there.
On a completely unrelated side note from all of this…more a mention for memory’s sake…I was moved off of the Dark Millennium Online team (Warhammer 40K MMO I’m working on at Vigil Games) and onto helping wrap up work on Darksiders 2! I’m pretty excited about that for a whole slew of reasons, two of which being that it’s a pretty major AAA title I get to add to my resume, and that I’ll be directly working alongside the VFX team as a whole for awhile to get that game as polished and beautiful as we can. I thrive off of challenges like that, it really gives me a sense of purpose or drive that I can take advantage of.
Alright…need my sleep! G’night.