tidly bits

So Quinn is back to being his fairly attentive self again.  I’m beginning to think the whole not-calling thing can be written down to simple male absentminded thoughtlessness.  He was genuinely sorry.  He said it did occur to him but that he didn’t know my number (blame technology, I only sort of know his number too) so he had to get someone to text him my number in order to be able to call me from his friend’s phone finally.  I’m still mad that he didn’t call and let me know but he knows that and next time it happens hopefully it won’t happen. =)

In other news we were talking last night and he kept playing with the mute microphone feature on his phone/bluetooth.  I thought his phone was acting up but he told me he was playing with the mute.  He commented that it would be pretty handy for if he wants to talk to his roommates about something that he doesn’t want me to hear.  I, smartass that I am, said there isn’t much, he pretty much talks about everything in front of me including when he’s talking to his roommates and I’m on the phone with him.  The answer I got was not what I was expecting.  He said "Yeah but we are at the point in our relationship where a ring might be in the picture and I wouldn’t want you to know all about that until it was ready."  I was floored and tried to play it cool by replying that I didn’t know guys discussed stuff like that the way girls do, meaning mostly that I didn’t think guys ‘planned rings’ with their guy friends.  I would understand talking about it with girl friends to get the female opinion in general but I didn’t think guys would necessarily be comfortable talking about stuff like that together.  Apparently the guy friends usually know about a ring long before the gal in question suspects.  I’m not saying suddenly I’m going to be expecting a ring or anything, Quinn is far too broke-college-student for that at least for a few more months.  Now maybe during the summer or in the early fall when he will have been working for a while and made some money.  But I also don’t know how I feel about a ring.

I suppose it would depend on what kind of ring.  A promise ring I could accept easily.  Engagement ring…eehhhh, I don’t know about that.  Mostly because there is still so much going on in the near future that it seems kind of ambitious to think about the distant future.  He still has a year of undergrad then there is his applying for grad school and the one he wants is in NY.  I still am trying to get into grad school.  And I have both of my jobs and my testing for the tech position…you see where I’m going with this.  Because all of that is stuff happening in the next 1-2 years.  Right now I just can’t imagine trying to plan for stuff past that.  So really I hope there is no engagement ring in the near future.  I think I have enough on my plate right now.

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