Splashing In Puddles of Sand

VERY GC!

Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed the pics...sorry it took so long to get them up but those are the main highlights of my trip! Maybe in time some more select ones will make it up as well! SO I'm still here, I am staying till next Tuesday when I leave for Sydney. Things are going pretty well. I've been doing a lot of thinking about men and me which leads me to a few conclusions.

I have high standards. This is good because I steer clear from losers, but bad because it makes it hard finding men.

I have two sorts of standards. The physical standard....hot, fit, tanned, sexy, rugby-type men :) Then there's the personality standard...funny, relaxed, able to handle me and my sense of humour! All the guys I spend time with fit into one of these categories...either they fit the physical one (like Lawrence did) or the personality one (like Will did). Rarely, and I mean VERY rarely, do I meet someone who fills both quotas.

Brian's the only guy who's ever met both standards perfectly. It's a hard thing to achieve :) But there's a guy here, one of Rory's friends, who seems like if I had a bit more time with him I'd be sure he meets all the standards. It's frustrating because I can get men but I never seem to get ones that have everything I need...everything I want. But this guy does...but it's a matter of him slipping through my fingers because I'm travelling and maybe will never see him again...

So it has me thinking about stuff like that. About how I usually find it impossible to meet guys that interest me on a deeper level, and can maintain my interest. But how in the last few weeks I met Will who did a seriously good job at it, and now Rune who has the potential to do the same. And I have to move on without both of them. I know I dont want any sort of a relationship now...no way...I dont know where I'll be next week, or in a month...so there's no way I want any sort of strings to tie me down. It's just bitter-sweet meeting people that I really like. It's absolutely AMAZING spending time with these total strangers who just seem to understand you straight away, but at the same time, it's shit having to accept that under different circumstances things could be perfect but instead you have to carry on with your life.

But that's life. And I can accept that. It's so refreshing to meet someone like Rune. Someone that is EXACTLY what I am looking for...at very least it shows me that my type IS out there. The guy who's mind-blowingly hot. Who's intelligent, interesting, funny, entertaining. Who's independent, who doesnt have a problem speaking his mind. Someone who'll treat you as an equal but still hold a door open for you :) Someone who is strong enough to be vulnerable. I have so many conflicting standards (I like men to be gentlemen but not patronizingly so...there's a very thin line between that in my head. Example--Holding doors open:yes. Ordering my food for me in a restaurant: NO!) I take comfort in the fact that people like that are out there.

So Rune's restored my faith in the universe :) That's a pretty big thing!


OH yeah...on another note...here's a pic of me and Rory, with Surfers Paradise way far away in the background!

posted by Oreo @ 4:10 AM