Twin Power

Dear papers – please stop screwing with my blogging time. Please and thanks :-)

Anyhoo, I really wanted to dedicate a post to a couple sort-of-new-good friends of mine, The Twins, Cara and Sara. After all that’s happened in the last few months, like coming out to my friends, building my confidence and working on my social skills, I think I’ve finally started to slowly find myself. I’m kind of in that mindset where I don’t really care about finding a guy; I mean sure, I’m starting to put myself in positions where potentially I could, and perhaps if he comes along, great, but I’m having an awesome time just trying to find what makes me happy and trying out new things. And that’s where The Twins come in.

We first met back in October through Danny and his (now ex) girlfriend, as a sort of a setup to get some of his friends together with some of her friends. It half worked, since yours truly wasn’t particularly interested in the girls, but Nate’s dating Cara, so it wasn’t a complete fail. At first, since twins do JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING together (I’m only half kidding), Sara tagged along on some of their hang outs, plus me as to not make her feel like a third wheel. And since then, we’ve become quite the hangout group...we’ve drawn some comparisons between us and some of the characters from the TV show Happy Endings. It’s worked out that way mainly because of their personalities; they’re so easy going, energetic and best of all, absolutely non-judgmental...like not at all. Everyone feels at ease around them. What’s great for me and finding myself is that we’re all motivated to explore and try new things together, like eating fondue, exploring botanical gardens, ice skating and weekly hikes (yay for sticking to new years resolutions!), so I’ve got a great bunch of people to help in my soul-searching.

And speaking of soul-searching, I did as I promised myself and came out to them a couple weeks ago. I’ll admit...it wasn’t the smoothest thing ever. We were on a hike when we were discussing rock climbing, and since I had gone rock climbing with the gay climbing group the night before, I figured that was a good springboard to start from. So when they asked who I went with, I was honest, and I assumed they understood what I was getting at...only they sort of glossed over it and kept asking about rock climbing. And so I assumed they were just being polite and not forcing the topic on me, but on the way home after lunch, just to make sure:

Me: So...just to clarify, you guys did catch that I was trying to tell you that I’m gay earlier, right?

Them: ...

Cara: No! We thought you just went rock climbing with gay friends!

Oops. Lesson here: Don’t assume anything. And don’t worry, they’ve got it now.

Since then, we’ve become even closer friends than we were before. Cara and I have quickly found out that we’re both the touchy-feely type and can’t stop hugging/tickling/skip down the street together. One of Cara, Sara and I’s favourite things to do lately is to talk about guys and sex, which is fun since I didn’t really have anyone to do that with beforehand and trying to do that with my buddies is sort of awkward. Not that I don’t think I could, it’s just a lot easier knowing those you’re talking to think what you're saying is pretty hot. So in conclusion, they’re pretty fun to be around, love adventure (which I love) and are going to make for some pretty awesome friends in the future. Look forward to hearing more about them in the future...