What did you do this weekend?

Bit of a personal post and this technically started Thursday, but I am now ready to write about this.

A little over six months ago, I posted about having the best date of my life, with a woman I met on Tinder. Long story short, after a troubled few weeks we did get together, but then she suddenly broke us up and blocked me during a nervous breakdown. Lots of lies were involved. She clearly wanted nothing to do with me anymore, and completely broke my trust, so I left it at that and eventually resumed a difficult period of on and off dating.

That was until last week. We got to talking again for her birthday. She apologized. So we got drinks together on Thursday. After a bit of alcohol she explained how she had been mad at herself but too proud to recontact me. We kissed. Alcohol led to a lot more. She wanted to get back together, I told her to tell me that when she is sober. I slept in her arms, and she repeated everything back to me in the morning.

So I told her the truth: I'm willing to try but I will need time to trust her again. This weekend, we saw each other again.

It went great. We saw Dune. She clearly and genuinely likes me a lot. She trusts me a ton and is putting in a lot of effort, I can see it. She is messaging me more, communicating far better than last time. I think she is telling the truth when she says she feels she made a huge mistake, and is actually grateful i am giving her a second chance.

The last time I wrote about how happy I was the way things were going, I got my heart broken literally the day after. This time, I am uh, let's say, cautiously optimistic and not ready to drop my guard yet... But damn it, I really want this to be true. She is smart, funny, super independent, and drop-dead gorgeous (way, way out of my league!).

She is the only person I ever met where I have genuinely said and believed "this could actually be the person I marry". Not that I'm into marriage but, you know, to that effect. And I say that having been engaged before!

So that is what I did this weekend. The one thing I never believed in: got back together with an ex.

I always said these things never work out. Please, please let me be wrong about that.

P.S. A huge thank you, again, to @cfabbro for being my confident since I first met her. If nothing comes out of this, I am glad I got a good friend out of it.

I started my journey into Maya! I would like to learn how to sculpt 3D. There's a lot of stuff I want to be able to do: make game assets, sculpt and rig characters, make my own BJD, etc. I am taking a college course at my local community College so I get it for free!! Very much wouldn't otherwise, that shits expensive lol.

I was worried at first, but Maya starts up with a cute interactive tutorial! They also have other introductory, interactive tutorials that you can download, so I need to do that! But I'm super excited to start!

Only things of note were a little bit of work in the garage and then another 3 hours in the tattoo chair for shading and the start of color.

My tattoo plan has now grown significantly from the mere mid-calf to my ankle idea to a full scene that will encompass my entire lower leg. I like to think I'm not easily swayed, but my tattoo artist is infectiously optimistic and creative to a fault, so here we are. It's also really easy to agree/want more added before you sit in the chair and start getting stabbed. If he'd brought it up afterward I'd probably have been more hesitant, but the pain is temporary.