In the past 10+ days, I’ve had quite a few things open up for me. One of which was the meeting and dating of Miss Melanie Rusk. Raised in Midland, Texas, Melanie (who also dons the name Trillian Prefect), and I met a few times earlier Swing Dancing at the Red Jacket, Sons of Hermann and Bass Club. On the Wed. before Halloween, I invited her to come dacing with me a few of my very wacky friends at Kempi’s Night club. We had a good time and I was hoping to see her again at my Studio 54 Party. Alas, Miss Melanie was sick. Not to be deterred, I told her, “That’s ok. If you can’t make it I’ll just come over and cook you some gumbo.”
One Studio 54 Party and a bowl of gumbo later, Melanie and I were watching Amelie (an amazingly good French movie) together on her couch. After much conversation, I realized how glad I was that I had the opprotunity to meet and cook for her. She really struck my fancy. After seeing the pictures of her at the Halloween party, my parents now call her, “My Lady in Red.”
One of the things which has really been a pleasant surprise for me upon meeting her was how much we actually talk about what’s bugging us. Typically, if I met someone I liked and something happened and it bugged me or if I had a concern about something, I would just stuff it down and not bring it up. And I would do the same thing over and over again with little things, until I got the point where we were dating for a while and then I would just have a total release session that would not be pretty. Well, Melanie’s great because she will work with me on the things that bug me. And as I’m learnings. Lot of little things bug me, but I typically don’t even notice it.
Another cool thing is that she’s a devout Christian. And even though I’ve questioned my faith these past few years, I’ve always knew that I wanted to be with a Christian. Don’t ask me why…it’s just a Tommy thing. Anyway, she’s been a good influence on me and we even went to Church yesterday to watch my Lee sing in the choir.
It’s all good.
On a completely separate note, Matt and I went to go see 8 Mile this night. It starts the controveral rapper, Eminem and is about a young man’s frustration and angst and how he uses rap as a release. I had heard that this was a good movie, and although, I didn’t know what it would be like, I was once again, pleasantly surprised. It was a really good movie, but I wouldn’t recommend it to my parents, because of the generation gap thingy. Quality flick. It also had me see how blessed I really am. God…you my #1 ..err…Dude!
Of to bed. I’ve got some cool Perl programming to make happen for my boss!