GroupieGirl 2.0??

Well, Groupie and I met up yesterday for the first time in weeks... and I have to say, it went well. Very well in fact. We met up in the city core for some coffee & cake, which turned into spending pretty much the whole day together - we spent some time in the park playing with her eye.fo flying disc and we spent some time in the pub planning to drink strawberry beer, although rather sadly they had ran out of the stuff so we had to find some other fruit-flavoured adult beverage to drink.

We also had a right laugh about various things - the current occupant of the White House will probably be referred to as President Banana for the rest of his term in office, by the two of us at least... and it was good to catch up on what we'd been doing and thinking about since we last met under much sadder and more difficult circumstances a month ago.

She's told me she's inquiring about anger management and confidence building classes, and she seems serious about it. I think she's realized that she can't truly love anyone unless she loves herself first - and she's doing this for herself, for her own benefit, not simply as a way to get me back into her life, which I totally agree with. I wouldn't want anyone to change themselves just for my benefit - that wouldn't be fair - but I'm all for her doing this. She's also been looking into various other things, which I may or may not mention here as and when they come up, and she seems determined to get herself out of the rut she's found herself in, which I wholeheartedly support. Perhaps the month apart shook her up enough to realize she needed to get herself sorted out.

So, where does that leave us? Well, I told her that I didn't want anything heavy - to be truthful, I want to see if she really is going to change - and she seems happy with that. We are planning to go to some gigs together in May (she's buying me tickets to see the Australian Pink Floyd band re-enact "The Wall" for my birthday, which is great news) and she's let me borrow a couple of her CDs including the signed copy of Right Said Fred's album that features her doll on the cover - they finally sent it over (although her credit on the album has her name slightly misspelled - sigh)

It looks like we're friends again, which is the important thing. I even showed her my Twitter page (though not the blog) so she finally knows who Zaphod Camden is. I explained the concept of Twitter to her, and she seemed quite interested, although I could see in her eyes that she was unsure about the whole thing - but that's because the internet is an unfamiliar place to her. Whisper it, but I think I'd like her to get on Twitter as well...

AC/DC - BACK IN BLACK
(from the album "Back In Black", 1980)