I’ve been putting off talking about this for a while because I just didn’t know how to bring it up to the rest of the people that didn’t already know, or at least the ones that I know that know, so I’ll say it now in lolcat fashion to break the ice:

I has girlfriend.

Yes, the guy that’s been perpetually single for no good reason for all these years has finally met fate and just couldn’t turn it down. Is that why I haven’t shown up to parties or potential nights out? Yes. Is that why I disappeared from the online world, and not even the Lich King could draw me back? Yes. Is it why I’m seemingly never home? Yes. Did I just totally submit and my life is over like so many others who disappear into relationships? Hell no. I’ll be back seeing you all both online and off, and possibly soon, but this mad rush of a past few months has been absolutely amazing and I didn’t really care what I missed out on because it’s all been the building blocks of things to come.

One of which has come to pass just earlier tonight. We’ve decided to move in together and it is I who is packing up shop and moving in. That right there was pretty much the impetus for me telling everyone else about this. I can’t really hide that fact anymore. Not that I was trying to, it’s just that I didn’t care if anyone knew or not. My life took a wild, yet very excellent turn, and with time I knew I would catch back up with others.

So, about me moving. Well, it only makes sense. She just bought a house here in Stoughton within the last year, and me, well, I can’t top that. Besides, I work here now so that works out pretty well for my commute. For those who would like to know where, incidentally if it wasn’t for the Yahara River this would be a case of Everybody Loves Raymond as my parents live right across the river from this house. Well, across the river and across the street, but I’m sure if I yelled loud enough, they could hear me, which means it’s pretty darn close.

So who is this woman? Well, her name is Alison and if you’re local friends and family, you’ll definitely be seeing her around these upcoming holidays so we can all catch up then. If we don’t, fear not. It’s not like me being in my 30′s I’m looking for a fling. We both know we’re going to be around for a long time to come.

As an aside, it should be evident that if I’m moving, the server this runs on will be down for a while. I can’t say when it will happen, but I’m going to try and make it short. So if one day soon it just doesn’t appear on the first attempt, try back the next day. I figure I’d say that here as more people would probably notice it than if I put it in the forum or front page.

I mean really, pictures of cats in my photo stream? You should have known something was up.

Which as an additional aside, is really something amazing and telling of this relationship; I am completely not allergic to cats anymore. I have no idea when it happened, but it would have killed this relationship dead within the first couple weeks, heck, probably the first “date”. But in a nervous and tense moment, I gave it a go visiting for an extended time one day and realized nothing happened. A couple more times and nothing. Nothing continues to happen and it amazes me. There will probably be much more said on the cat topic in the future since Alison is very involved with them locally.