Goodbye
I'm just reviewing my journal tonight after monthsa of inactivity. I suppose I've outgrown the need to blog, at least for now. I'm a family. Mae and her daughter and I are a legitimate family, probably even more legitimate than the average North American family bound by law and blood.

I now live in a high rise in downtown. My parents and I went in together and bought a condo. Mae will bring her daughter over tomorrow so she can get acclimated to staying here on Monday nights, when I babysit her (while Mae is in school). I love this kid. She's absolutely the most adorable, hilarious kid I've ever met. I was worried at first that she would be quiet or dopey or...or that she wouldn't r eally be that cute, but I'd make a big deal out of her being cute because I'm associated with herm and once you get to know any kid they're usually pretty cute. But this kid is amazing, and I say this objectively. She turns heads wherever she goes. My family loves her, too.

And Mae's family loves me. We all love each other. It's incredible. It's on-the-nose: this is exactly what I was looking for when I left L.A. (and, honestly, not what I was expecting at all). Marriage is still a ways off - Mae has school to finish, and my new place is too mall for the three of us - but we're comfortably dating and monogamous and familial, and it's juts amazing.

So goodbye for now. I think this blog has expired. Thank you to everyone over the years who gave me compliments and/or vitriol.