i was wrong...

apparently 'simmer down' is actually an expression! ben and i were talking about it the other day and we both agreed it was not really correct grammar, but i've just checked the macquarie dictionary (which i do regard as being a reliable source of the truth) and the 5th and final entry is this:

simmer down, colloquial to become calm or calmer....

go figure! who would have thought i would have got that wrong, a wannabe novelist and all??? guess it doesn't really matter that much coz the point of this story is not actually that i was wrong (that happens from time to time) but is that i actually had someone to talk to about it...he's lovely, he really is and i've resisted posting about him as i'm not one to gush or carry on about it publicly, but since a lot of my time when i'm not with him is pre-occupied with thinking about him, or the last thing he said to me, it's kinda hard not to mention him...

the old me wouldn't have mentioned it (you know this already from a post a couple of weeks ago) as i was afraid that talking about it might fuck it up, but i think i can safely say, that does NOT seem to be true...there is really no evidence to suggest that, none at all, so maybe now i have figured that out, i can leave that old belief behind where it belongs! in my past...

now on an entirely different note, imagine this scene:

school morning, we wake up kinda simultaneously, he leans over, smiles and kisses me good morning, we kiss, a long lingering kiss and he licks his lips, i laugh, he says he's gonna lick his lips all day so he doesn't forget what i taste like, and then he says (and i love this bit) that when people ask him what he's doing (coz i'm figuring he's gonna get some funny looks if he goes round licking his lips all day...) he's gonna say 'none of your business, fuck off'...

so really, i wasn't just wrong about the expression 'simmer down', turns out i was wrong about so many other things, and maybe just maybe he's gonna help me figure out the difference between 'right' and 'wrong'...