Dear Diary,

I spent the day with Bette again today, and it was wonderful.  We spent the day at her house swimming and relaxing in her backyard.  Most definitely the perfect Saturday.

Dear Diary,

Yesterday when we hung out at Bette’s house I didn’t think life could get much better but then today happened.  She picked me up at my apartment then we went down to Venice beach, we ran into a client of hers from the gallery and she introduced me as, “This is my girlfriend Tina Kennard.”  At that moment I swear that time stopped, I just stood there smiling at her.  We had never described or labeled what our status is but just hearing her say “my girlfriend” was spectacular.  Plus it wasn’t like when Eric or my other ex-boyfriends said it because with them it was like they were claiming me as their property.  When Bette said it it was in a totally different, like she was describing her equal.

Dear Diary,

It’s been three weeks since ‘the Eric incident’ and it’s like my life has done a total 180° turn.  Just under two months ago I was a straight mid-level script developer in a relationship that seemed to have marriage in the future and a few friends that were limited to work and ‘our’ couple friends we’d go out with.  Now I’m a senior executive, the youngest in the company, in a relationship with a woman so I guess that I would now describe myself as a lesbian and I have new friends like Alive who ironically was Bette’s last girlfriend but is now her best friend.  In addition to Alice there’s Mimi and Ivy who have been together for three years and told us the other day that they got engaged last Friday and would be getting married in Canada in six months or so.  I didn’t know that gay marriage is legal up there; I suppose that if something doesn’t pertain to you that you don’t really pay attention topics having to do with it.  But now the topic of gay marriage is definitely something that interests me.  Not that we’re anywhere close to that stage in our relationship but I could definitely see myself marrying Bette.