I've been silent since I returned, but here is the full report (with background for the curious)

I returned from LA on the 25th, but it already seems like ages have passed since I was there. In reality, less than a week. Anyways….

I was nervous and super excited. Few people know how undertraveled I really am, but lets just say this was my first time in an airplane in at least 10 years. I sat over the wing and had my eyes glued to the outside world the whole freaking time. Excellent experience. I attempted to take a few pictures as we approached LA, but just as I began to figure out the optimal settings for picture taking at night from an airplane window, i was forced to turn off my electronics… bummer.

Not so much a bummer however was the girl who was waiting to pick me up. This is she:

Yup. I love that girl.

For those of you who have never met Kiah, or are recent additions to the Kylekyle conglomerate, Kiah and I started dating long time ago days when we attended Junior college together. I met her in a Critical Thinking English class, taught by a teacher I adored and she despised (she claims I only love said teacher due to a hilarious story about her carpet being cleaned accidentally… she is probably right). Nevertheless, we dated until we both transfered, me to SFSU, and her to UCLA. Opposite poles of California to be sure. At the time, we agreed to seperate, long distance wasn’t our thing. That lasted maybe two months. We gave the long distance thing a shot. We stayed together through the end of summer 2005.Things had gone sour, so when she left to return to UCLA, we separated again. In between then and now, I realized a few things… I really love Kiah. I did then, I do now. Things did go sour as I said, but as much as I hated to admit it to myself, the majority of our problems could be traced to me. I had made Kiah many promises. Promises of love, of devotion, and of my willingness to tackle any relational problems fervently. I never really held up my end of the bargain however, and I’m pretty ashamed of it. So, in recent days, I admitted all of this and more to Kiah. I came straight out with everything I had, failure, negligence, misuse of trust, and my extreme interest in another chance. I couldn’t do without her anymore. Although she was hesitant, she agreed to a week long vacation of sorts, a chance to feel everything out and see if we could really work it out. We both love eachother very much, but I betrayed many of her trusts, and its hard to instantly trust again, especially when new promises sound very much like old broken promises. The good news was, I had my week to prove to her that this was very real, and I meant it.

Snap back to where we were, this girl picking me up:

Yeah, she’s a thug alright.

That night was amazing. I got to see Kiah’s apartment for the first, time, and actually got a peak into the life she had been leading for months that never involved me. We made dinner that night, but I cannot quite recall what it was. Something simple I believe. Sleep can early and easily, you know how that can be when you are next to that someone…

Thursday involved several enjoyable instances… Attended her classes, aquired groceries, made quesadillas, and just relaxed in her company. wonderful indeed. Several hundred pictures were taken, but they mostly involve me looking like a dipshit… this is probably my favorite from that night, reminds me of that week as a whole….

It was a blur haha… get it? Bad joke….

Friday was Disney Land, expensive corporate land of magic and memories. We mostly didnt take pictures, we were too busy enjoying ourselves… ever notice how that happens? You have to actively remember you have a camera sometimes, or it just doesn’t happen.

A bit bright… but workable!

Here are two separate pictures because I suck at asking people to take pictures of us, and we cant be myspace stylin all the time….

But then again, the best picture of the batch has us myspace stylin….

Yup, I’m happy. Kiah makes me happy. Kiah makes me happy in Disneyland! Kiah makes me happy in Disneyland even if we are in the shitty Tarzan tree house that used to be the much better Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse… Disneyland is going to hell for that heresy!

Here’s an example of the douchery that can happen when a cute myspace moment fails….

You smash your face up and look like an asswad. Oh well, can’t win em all.

The cliche picture on main street. Had to include it here!

Saturday was spent making a Cheesecake and relaxing once again. I accidentally bit all the way through my lip as the evening progressed, and we all know how much I hate piercings, so the whole wasn’t really good for anything but bleeding a shit load, and making it difficult to eat massive sushi rolls. Somehow I managed, probably because Kiah took care of me!!! We returned that night for some cheesecake madness, and I believe I snapped a shot of Kiah’s best friends here in LA then…

Becky is Kiah’s roomate, and Andrew is her good friend. I’m very thankful to both of them for the use of their cars and their hospitality. I’m sorry I invaded for so long Becky, thanks for being better than the last roomate *cough cough*…

A random kitchen shot… Kiah spends lots of time in there (and rightly so)…

So much action makes me a sleepy sleepy boy… Somehow Kiah snapped this while I slept, though I cant seem to gather why hehe… You may notice the redness in the corner of my lip… thats where I pierced myself!

Sunday was the day of walking! We hit the bus and headed to Santa Montica, then walked the beach down to Venice and she showed me all the sights… what a wonderful day!

We did a bit of shoppin…

We scoped out the boardwalk thingy…

Here’s a little view of the beach in Santa Monica….

Here’s us on a bus… I included this one because I think Kiah decided to yawn midpicture and it makes me want to yawn everytime I look at it.

Yes you can look this awesome too. Just send me $20 and I’ll tell you the secret.

The rest of our time went by so fast…. We went to Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles, got fat on too much dessert, went to the coolest theater ever (called the Arclight), and dreaded the goodbye which came so fast. In case you’re interested, the week gave us plenty of time to talk things over, and we are back together with a vengeance this time. I have my chance to make things work, and I’m going to take full advantage of it. I’m 100% sure we are right together, and even if we do hate being long distance, the alternative just isn’t an option for me right now. It’s really nice to be so sure about something for once, everyone knows what a confused and befuddled character I can be (the perfect scientist). You’ll be hearing more about us, I’m quite sure. Valentine’s day is coming up soon, and Kiah we’ll be flying out the 16th to spend the weekend with me. I miss her so much already I cannot wait…..

So I guess in closing, I’ll include a little montage of pictures, mostly to amuse myself…