When Life Catches You By The Short And Curlies

Life is a strange and wonderful thing. It has a habit of catching you off guard and taking you by surprise in both good and bad ways. One moment you find yourself resigned to the fact that after a lifetime of disastrous relationships you are Forever Alone. You've even started a blog in honour of that fact and you purchased the Future Crazy Cat Lady starter kit. Then BOOM someone comes along that matches your brand of weirdness and you end up one of those loved up people that always made you gag with disgust.

I'd heard every cliche from my friends and family, such as:

• When you least expect it
• When you know, you just know
• One day someone will come along that makes you realise why it never worked with anyone else

Blah...blah...blah. That was always my general response emphasised with a hearty eye roll. I spent far too much time contemplating and worrying about how would you know. I mean you thought you'd known with previous relationships but were wrong so how exactly would you know when you know what if you got it wrong once again and around and around it would go.

Anyone who knows me is well aware of the fact I'm not partial to being wrong or being proved wrong. However in this particular case I'm very glad I was incorrect in my thinking because I have discovered all the above cliches are in fact correct. When a weird dude emailed me on the dating site I was on I instantly knew there was something different about this one. The first time we spoke on the phone my internal voice was screaming at me "This guy! This is the one you want for a person!" Before I even laid eyes on him for the first time I was smitten. He was everything I'd ever wanted in my other half.

I became instantly aware that I had been getting it wrong all these years. I thought I knew what it was to find the right one. I thought I had known what love was. But as I've learnt these last glorious 5 months I'd had no idea. I never knew that loving someone or being loved by someone could be like this.

He gets me and my craziness. He puts up with my neurotic and at times bat shit crazy self. He loves and accepts all the parts of me that are good and bad. When I say bizarre things like:

"If we were a serial killing couple I'd be the one that does all the torturing...that's something I could really sink my teeth into. I'd leave the actual killing up to you"

He doesn't even bat an eyelid...he joins in on the insanity and it spirals into something that if people were listening they'd have us committed on the spot.

Now don't be looking out for us on the 6 o'clock news as the new Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. We aren't literally planning on becoming serial killers. But we do share the same inappropriate weird and crazy sense of humour. I share this same sense of humour with my best friend of 24 years. She's my girl person, she's the Meredith Grey to my Christina Yang. And finally I've found the boy version of this that I can live happily ever after with in blessed bizarre love.

So this is where I have been the past 5 months. Discovering the wonders of true love. Does this mean the end for the Future Crazy Cat Lady blog? No! I may no longer be single, but lets be honest I'm still probably going to be a Crazy Cat Lady just with someone by my side. I still have plenty of experience being single and dating. And I see this blog also growing into tales of life with a boy and relationships. This blog will be a mixture of all these wonderful and crazy things we experience in life.

So hold onto your knickers and enjoy the ride.

Until Next Time xo