- walking in on John doing acupuncture on my uncle, the house smelling of cedar and sage
- drinking whisky with John, having Tyler over, Tyler driving for a long time to take him home
- crashing and sleeping next to Tyler for a couple hours, being awake only long enough to say goodbye and lock the door
- Korean ribs and whole grain rice dinner at my house for Tyler, Daniel, and Sarah, talking about writing and life and various hilarities
- waking up next to Tyler, eating pomegranate Greek yogurt together
- making guacamole and finishing off my mojo chips
- fried chicken and sushi night
- being very productive at work and typing up a couple massive stacks of forms, getting praise from my boss
- talking to Tyler about his work in the police department
- a hug and praise from my boss, "you'll be like family soon enough."
- singing after (finally!) getting over my cough
- Tyler getting the schedule for the physical test for the local PD
- going to my family's shop for lunch, eating BBQ pulled pork and beans from a chef customer
- joking with Bob that there should be a bar in the new building and everyone just drinks beer all day
- getting a chocolate pastry delivered to me from my boss at a time when I was completely overwhelmed with paperwork
- oogling over the 2014 CLA250
- pomegranate Greek yogurt and online lingerie shopping
- painting the pages of my art journal and editing while I wait for them to dry
- making a list of ways to make my life better and telling Tyler a little bit about it
- closing up old wounds
- waking up and washing my car, then polishing steel on the trawler
- going shopping with Jen, finding amazing clearance at Kohl's
- coworkers complimenting me all day at work on my styled hair (fake sideswept bangs!) and my dress
- going home and typing up ~80 pages of edits for my novel
- waking up and seeing the text "Home safe"
- jogging + Muse
- finishing typing up my first edit
- making red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting for Tyler, hearing stories from his internship adventures the night before
- shopping for tons of fruit and vegetables at BJ's
- Tyler giving me a dozen roses
- new underwear!
- Tyler driving us in the highway in his Jetta, blasting "Sentry The Defiant" and "2's My Favorite 1", feeling like my heart might burst from joy
- red dress, high heels - eating at PF Chang's, getting a Long Island iced tea
- telling Tyler about how happy I was, "I'm glad I got to give you that feeling! You give that to me all the time"
- going out for chicken and rice with Kevin and Javier and Mitch, Kevin driving way too fast and squealing with delight
- joking around with Bob while we worked on Saturday: "Let's steal customer's credit cards and buy a space ship." "Okay. Where do you wanna go?" "Saturn." His response without pause: "That has a nice ring to it.", him being embarrassed, me laughing til it hurt
- "When you're an evil dictator, who's going to do your laundry?" "You."
- eating a massive organic spinach salad with strawberries, blueberries, grapes, raisins, dried cherries, and almonds
- running at night, cool air on hot skin
- organizing the notes to my novel
- going back into the warehouse - "Do you need paper?" "No. I'm pretending to need paper so I have an excuse to talk to you."
- "I want to buy you a beer on your birthday. I'm not letting you spend it alone.", bonding over our love of Crown
- the realization that I am seen as a good person to a lot of cynical people
- talking to Tyler about Bob, "I feel like I have an obligation to inform you when I'm talking to other guys regularly I guess" getting the response: "Ugh idc. I trust you"
- driving to Naples and back in a 2013 RX and GS respectively, going on the highway alone for the first time
- reading the text: "Thanks. You're nice and Italian so that's why I told you. I don't trust anyone.", feeling special
- paying off my electrical plate and my credit card, being officially 100% debt free for the first time in years
- driving home listening to old Italian music
- new bottle of Crown Royal
- "I ran out of texts. I didn't even know I had a limit." Realizing I have a coworker who still has limited texts and is antisocial enough to not realize he does until he started texting me
- Me to Bob: "you have a string on your back pocket but I don't want to touch your butt." Darrin chiming in telling me I can touch Bob's butt while Bob awkwardly stood there not breathing
- going to Sun Harvest and buying Bob and I muffins, him storing his in the cabinet above his desk
- making blueberry cupcakes with brown butter and maple icing
- "You're gonna make a great wife for someone one day."
- reconciling with Tyler, feeling much better about what we're going through
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