...WTF?

Here's the deal:

A couple of very, very strange things happened to me last night. First, I not only have my old job back, but in 2 days, I will have racked up 17 hours, which is a lot, really...

And second, and this is the one I'm having issue with: I have a boyfriend.

Yeah, I'm as confused as the rest of you.

I met Nathaniel yesterday just before my shift. We worked together for 6 hours, and, yeah there was flirting, but there always is, so I didn't think too much of it. Then we went to Fionns after work (and were dubbed "the lovebirds" by a couple of older women) And to the beach after Fionns. We climbed out to the lighthouse, and after a bit of chatting, he looked at me and said (in an Irish accent (he's Scotts-Irish)) "So, you wouldn't mind bein' my girl then?"

I said I wouldn't mind at all.

He's hilarious, deeply spiritual, affectionate and has beautiful eyes. But something about this whole thing has me off-balance. Maybe it's that it became a relationship pretty friggin fast. Maybe it's that I just got comfortable being single. Maybe it's the fact that this compleatly blindsided me... I mean, I was just there to cover a shift!

For now, I think I'm just going to play it "low". Not cold, but I don't want to go leaping blindly into this either...So maybe holding back and waiting for the rest of me to catch up will work out for the best.

Bizarre.

Update as of 3.45pm: After discussion with Mike, I'm going to talk to Nate and let him know that we need to slow things the hell down. I mean, he may be a great guy, but really, I know nothing about him. And I have that pesky problem of "Stars in your Eyes"... Everything just seems too good to be real. I would like to date him, just... in time. Not yet.