So glad to hear you have such a wonderful BF, flowerbells! That is most excellent.
I love my BF (7 years) and we've got tons in common too, but I must confess to learning about cognitive dissonance in this time. (She said obliquely.)

Nice work! There have been BP poetry etc. threads before, but it's been a little while since I've seen them. You could start one! Or maybe do a search and see any predecessors.

BF's the poetry one. His poems are very dense with traditional structures. Dylan Thomas is his poetic hero. Big time. Though I'm near-clueless with the technical aspects of poetic form, I LOVE words and language. It's among the chart-toppers on the list of things in common. We'll be, say, watching a dvd and suddenly squeal at the thrill of a well-crafted turn of phrase, lol. No need to tread lightly about possibly detecting whimsy. It's quite the compliment. It's just what falls out of my head. Better to laugh than to cry when you can, right?

Re: language. All hail Stephen Fry! (Hahahaha, I just wrote that without even remembering the BP(!)) What a way with words!
And just yesterday, I got watching youtube of Travel Man with Richard Ayoade (whom I ADORE!!!). I haven't come up with a good way to describe his phrasings, but they are delightful (a word I don't often use, so interpret it at maximum power level.) No BP connection there, just linguistic fun.

Travel indeed. What was the topic again?

Too funny. I scrolled to look at again and was briefly confused. Aha! A second post!

Yes, when I am highly irritable, it all goes out the window.
I take transit too! I'm not always a happy camper, but it sure helps against road rage! And there's air conditioning. Oh yeah.

Good work on the park situation. Do you know the show Parks and Rec? If so, I hope you get their Leslie Knope!

The pond you had sounds nice.

I don't know if I'd be considered upbeat and cheerful. Probably not. Depends very much on context and how well someone knows me. Relaxed, I'm very silly. And cynic, yes, that's the word. It's strange though. Towards other people's lives, I tend to be an optimist, though I run towards pessimism in my own. But I sometimes joke that, despite appearances, I must be the biggest optimist in the world. Because I hold out hope for change that stands against all odds and reason. Good thing I'm not a gambler.