now you've found someone, Squishy, you hand the baton of the Lust-In to me.... *sigh*
He loves me:
1. He invited me for coffee when we were in town together
2. He invited me for pub drinkies when in town another time
3.
He will often choose to stop watching TV and come to chat with me in
the large kitchen once I'm home.
4. He started up a regular friday night cards evening (now gone due to salsa)
5. He has come to every party/BBQ/night out I have invited him to
6. He turned up at salsa once, to see me dance and has expressed an interest to see me dance at future events
7. He asked me to email him weekly while he was away in Asia and he emailed me about weekly, too
8. He playfully hit me while walking past me, as I was laughing at him a few days ago.
9. He takes an interest in my daft schemes (tempe making, wormery starting, beekeeping, cheesecake experimentation)
10.
He sent me a text message while he was away in Wales and not feeling
well and I was away at a salsa congress. (He was thinking of me - or
rather, wanted me to think of him?)
11. He cooks for me sometimes, including steak with red wine sauce
12. He asked me to go clothes shopping with him (like a couple or what!)
13. He invited me when he goes out with his mates (though recently salsa clashes usually)
14. He uses little phrases or in-jokes I started (such as calling the cupboard under the stairs
Narnia)
15 He teases me about my clumsiness and takes me teasing him about his appalling memory for things
16. We laugh a lot together of an evening
17. He does a mean roast dinner and we share this every other Sunday or so.
18. He's complimented me on my figure and my brain (how it works, not how it looks)
19. We are on the same wavelength with so many things and he agrees we are very alike.
20. I took him out for a pizza once as part of a mystery shopping assignment and he paid the bill - like a real DATE! [simper]
He loves me not
1. He never sits beside me on the sofa
2. We never touch (rare exceptions)
3. He does not flirt with me, not even when drunk
4. He says he is not relationship material whenever we get onto (general) relationship type topics
5. We never share a sofa
6. He never flirts
7. And um.. never share a sofa? did I mention that already?oh and
8. We never touch.
9. He can't remember my birthday
10. He knows all my flaws
clues to him that I do likes him very very much
1. I follow him around the house like a puppy
2. I cook for him and bake cakes for him... a lot
3. I invite him to every party/BBQ/Do I can bring a guest to
4. I never turn down the chance to sit and chat with him
5. I remark on how endearing his little habits and ideosynchracies are
6. I refuse to give him the link to my blog (he knows about it, is dying to read it)
7. I gave him a birthday card last year and I can remember what date his birthday is, including birth year)
8. I tell him everything (except how I feel about him, obviously)
9. I am too shy to make physical contact with him - and cannot bring myself to sit next to him.
10. We are always laughing together of an evening
11. I stood very close to him when we were putting toppings on our pizzas ad when we checked progress in the oven
12.
I take an interest in all his little projects (like the homemade
compost bin, the chili plant from seed, the homemade grape juice.
13. I tease him about his appalling memory for things and take his teasing me about my clumsiness.
14. I can remember what foods he particularly likes and which he dislikes.
15.
I gave him a lift to Heathrow Airport once, even though I had to take a
train to Berkshire to collect the car and take it back again.
16. I don't date any of the salsa guys. None of them hold my interest.
17. I invited him to pizza when I had that Mystery Shopper assignment.
so
that means the clues He Loves Me (20) somewhat outnumber the clues
I am giving him(17). Furthermore, the He Loves Me clues far exceed
the He Loves Me Nots (10)
well after such an in-depth,
scientific study, I can confidently conclude.. well that I'm no further
forward and still too bloody cowardly to do anything.
Disclaimer
it takes a woman to over-analyse like this. I can only be true to my gender.
He
uses my name a lot. And he makes remarks to amuse me when we're
watching TV. He also remarked that he yawns too much and am I not sick
of him yawning all the time. And then he uses my name mid-yawn
"*yaaaaawn* ah, Heather" and invites me to tease him about it.
He is always happy to play along to my TV games (such as "Be The First To Point And Laugh At The Worst Tie On
The
News" game). We used to compete at University Challenge - the prize
being a square of Bournville Chocolate - and both of us heckle the TV
with wild abandon - competing for the wittiest comment.
