#x-opher

[danielleruns]

Coffee, airport massages, day drunk in an art gallery. Warm hugs, two gentle sirs, hair play on the couch. A set of crusty inedible veggie patties. A third nipple. Laying in a guest room in Lexington, Kentucky, with a needy cat. Waiting as long as I can to go weasel in between Stephen and Brenny.

[beachyrunner]

A Cool Canadian Guest Post by a Cool Canadian on a Cool Canadian Day

Hello, hi, it me, Dan.

Here I am. Beachy is pretty busy right now in Lexington, probably leading the resistance, or eating something with gravy on or adjacent to it, or fluffing her pillows for me to snuggle in with her and our dog and cat and husband real soon. Something like this, but add an uncomfortable Southern sir in: 

I am going to Lexington in March to see my Others and my heart is already warm with the kind of love that I will be surrounded by. It’s the kind of love that welcomes you into their home for a weekend having never met you. The kind that holds your hand in a new, strange place, and jackknifes you in a warm bed. The kind that says grace before breakfast and lets you touch their beard and nuzzle their wife. The kind that gets drunk with you and dances to folk music and plays the air guitar real high up. The kind that buys a plane ticket without hesitation. The kind you hold thousands of cheese balls for and run to the Bean to get pizza with and you drive across the country to see. It’s the kind of love I chose; they’re the people I chose; they are the people I fit best with, and they make me the best version of myself. I can’t fucking wait to soak up the love from these incredible idiots. 

-Dan

[danielleruns]

I mowed my lawn for you.

[beachyrunner]

Lately, my timehop updates from three years ago have been full of shameless flirting with x-opher on various forms of social media and it’s awesome.

[beachyrunner]

Take me back.

[beachyrunner]

He said I could make up the WOD for tomorrow morning. 21 15 9 : knees to elbows, push-ups, somersaults. Moshy kisses between each set. Because I said so.

[fitterisbetter]

Reminiscent of XANGA! Let's play!

The lovely Gill-a-tron tagged me so I thought I'd amuse her. I'll tag some of ya'll but I'm not creative enough to make up my own questions so just do this K? K!!!

1. If you could be friends with a fictional character from any tv show/ movie/ book/ WHATEVER, who would it be and why? What would you do together?

I've been watching a lot of Nurse Jackie lately and I like how direct she is. Also she doesn't bullshit people and I respect that. I wouldn't hang out with her thought because quite frankly she scares me. I, however would hang out with everyone from "Happy Endings" and of course Charlie (It's Always Sunny) and I would frolic through the streets of Philly together!

2. What is your favorite smell? Does it evoke a memory?

I really love the smell of honeysuckles. It reminds me of playing outside and being all dirty and sweaty and stinky as a kiddo. 

3. You know when you see someone out in public (I people watch, you probably do too, right?!) and you see them randomly smile, either for no apparent reason, or triggered by something private, like a glance at their phone? Tell me about something that makes you smile privately to yourself! Ya know, if you want.

Hmm. Usually it's a funny memory or joke between my friends and I. Or thinking of something cute my boyfriend did, like randomly dropping a sack of cookies off at my house.

4. Who is your most special (or one of your most special) humans? What makes them so dear to you?

My mama. She shaped me to be the adventurous, curious, passionate human I am today. Without her I would be a hermit eating saltines and watching episodes of Designing Women or something else completely horrid. Her birthday would actually be Saturday and Sunday (long story short - she had her birthday wrong for the majority of her life until she randomly found her birth certificate stating her bday was actually a day before the bday we celebrated - so yeah she gets 2 bdays)

5. In what position do you sleep?

On my side, snuggling a squishy pillow. Usually with a foot out of the covers when it's hot.

6. What was your favorite ever Halloween costume?

I really liked my lion costume because my hair was incredibly wild, but as a kid I was also a blend of things. One year I was a vampire french maid and the next I was a zombie cheerleader. Respective ages 10 and 11.

7. In all of your days, what have you done that makes you most proud of yourself?

Oh goodness. Maybe getting my ass in gear and becoming more active and in tune with my body. Losing weight really helped me come out of my shell more than I ever thought possible. I've done so much with my life in the past few years because of the confidence I gained.  I mean graduating college, moving to LA for a few years, going back to school for cosmetology are a few other things I'm proud of.  L-I-V-I-N-G

8. Tell me about your weirdest dream! The weirder the better!

I guess my the weirdest would be one that my sister and I share. We had identical dreams about our Dad dying. Luckily that didn't happen. But freaky stuff. We've also been known to have full convos with one another if we are sleeping in the same room. 

9. Free ticket to anywhere! Where do you go?

Ireland. I miss my family over there.

10. What’s one movie that made you cry? (Don’t even pretend it’s never happened…)

I easily have cried at millions of movies and I'm having a really hard time thinking of one right now.

11. If you could do one thing (professionally) for the rest of your working days, what would you do? (AKA, dReAm JoB??!) Are you already doing it? 

Be a trophy wife? Is that something I could do professionally because man I'm tired. I really do love doing hair so it looks like I'm doing that already. Ba-zing!!!!!

  TAG YOU'RE IT!

[godo2point0]

x-opher replied to your photo: only slightly concerned that my tumblr is becoming...

When I come back to Toronto, I’m doing a food tour based on your blog. Hope that’s not too weird…

YES! I love this! Message me when you'll next be in town and I'll put together a list of highlights with a little map :)