Kissin' time

There has been a lot of talking about kisses today. I need to share.

It all started this morning when me and sweetest boyfriend were getting ready to go to our respective work places (him to work, and me to chat for a couple of hours, apparently). I had put on chap stick on my lips, and made a crazy mouth so he wouldn't be able to steal it from my lips upon kissing me. I needed it myself today, it was fucking minus 4 degrees Celsius this morning, and that's cold. Especially for lips! So he did funny mouth too, and said that it was like kissing a girl when you were 7 or 8; quick, funny mouths and not so nice. Or at least, at that age, you were not to show anyone that you liked it, that was typically un-cool. He asked me if I could remember my first kiss, and I have been thinking about it all day. I honestly can't remember ever kissing a guy before age 16, how cool is that? But anyway, he then told me the cutest story. He said that at his primary school for fun-friday-hour, a disco or some friends birthday party, they always had dancing competitions. Some participated, and the other kids would vote who were to win one of the following prices:

3rd price: the couple were allowed to hug each other
2nd price: the couple were allowed to kiss each other on the cheeks
and finally 1st price: the couple were allowed to kiss each other on the mouths!

This kissing on the mouths were the real reason for having/participating in the dance competitions. However, he continued explaining, it wasn't as simple as just dancing your best, as you might otherwise expect from a dancing competition. Apparently, if you chose one of the cooler girls no-one else would out of jealousy want you to kiss her, so they wouldn't vote for you and her. But if you would choose someone more nerdy, the likelyhood of other kids voting for you increased. Of course, your prize wasn't as nice then. But still nice enough. But as I mentioned before, you could most definitely not show that you actually enjoyed your kissin' price. Because that wasn't cool. Confusing? Kissing is the best prize you can get, but you cannot like it. Kids and their logic, eh?

And then Hampus, my lovely 6 year old neighbour was in here playing. We threw toys for the cats to chase, and baked saffron Christmas treats. And then out of nowhere he asked me: "have you married someone?". I replied with a quite surprised "no?!". I thought it was just some random thing he had thought about, but then the cause was revealed when his follow-up question was a wonderment about the reason for me kissing my sweet boyfriend last saturday when he came over (which Hampus saw, since he was also here). I explained to Hampus that I kissed my boyfriend because I was in love him, and that you needn't be married in order to kiss someone. Then he let me in on one of his secrets (and now I am telling everyone), that he kisses some girls in his class too, but not 'cause he wants to marry them. It is just because the girls don't approve of it, and run away screeaching something about the awfulness of boy germs.