Loving you is easy 'cause you're beautiful

It's 7 am in the morning, it's raining cats and dogs outside with the occasional booming thundercrack, and Lilie's sleeping in my bed. Normally I'd be lying in there with her - especially being able to listen to the rain falling outside, and indeed, that's what I was doing for a while. A long while. An hour? I know I fell asleep, but it wasn't for very long. I've mainly been awake, listening to the rain falling outside, to her breathing, watching her sleep. That almost sounds like a stalker-y kind of thing, 'til you realize that a) we're dating, b) we sleep together fairly regularly, and c) I have really odd sleeping habits, and she knows that, so she wouldn't be surprised for me to tell her something like that.

Things seem to be going fairly well between us so far. Well, yeah. She hasn't freaked out and bolted or felt closed in or anything yet. Of course, we've been dating, what, a day and a half? Something like that. But I think it'll go well for a couple reasons. First, I want it to, and like a lot of people, I foolishly believe my desires can have some effect on the cosmos at large. But more importantly, we did have a fairly in-depth conversation via IM (not our first choice for having it, but it just couldn't wait any longer. Seriously. We both wanted to do it in person, but we wouldn't put it off any more.) about a lot of things - what happened last time, how she feels, why we've been the way we are with each other, that kind of thing. It's that kind of openness that gives me hope that we'll endure, and, failing that, our closeness and friendship will endure even if we don't. So that's another plus - we're best friends, and will continue to be, even if we don't work out as a couple. We were thinking about going swimming today - though that's looking to be somewhat unlikely, given the rain - or going to see Fantastic Four, depending on how she felt when she woke up. Of course, her crashing here was something that didn't come about 'til the last minute. Caught me completely by surprise. It's just... nice. Comfortable. I'm not worried about how she feels, if she's having a good time, if she enjoys being together, anything. Again, that might just be because it's still brand new, and everything's still all rainbows and tulips, but... I doubt it. Again, there's just a lot of things going for us; the major one being how close we've always been from the start, how there's always been *something* between us. So yeah.

So work. Fun times. I'm in my third week and I've already gotten a bigger raise than I ever got at Sonic, a 20 dollar bonus on my first evaluation, and am running shifts. I mean, closed by myself on Wednesday - Gina left around 9 or 10 and I ran the show from then on; today, she left at like 8 or so, but Jenn, Sergio and Shelley were still there. I was nominally in charge, but I deferred to their knowledge in a lot of areas. I'm slowly growing more confident in my ability to take care of things as my understanding of the various systems increases. Gina told Lilie that I did a fantastic job and didn't screw anything up my first night closing, so that's cool. It is really cool to be working with Lilie again, and we often hug or whatever when we get the chance. I'm a huge fan of PDA's, just not at work.