sistawendy | What are YOU looking for in a partner?

[I've been writing up events several days after they happen lately. This one is from Monday night the 26th.]

I had dinner with Tall Girl - not a date - for the first time in nearly a year to swap )'( tales and, as you'd expect with me involved, to talk about adventures and misadventures in dating. She asked me a question that I've been asked once before: "What are you looking for in a partner?"

I had to think about it.* I confessed that I have U-Haul** tendencies, so she better be OK with that.
"Are you looking for serious romance?" asked Tall Girl.
I'd never thought of it that way. I smiled. "Yeah, that would be nice."
She said she'd see what she could do. Awww.

What else do I want? Here come the bullet points!

I love to geek out with girlfriends; you must be at least this smart to get on this ride.
I love to shop with girlfriends, and I'm a reasonably girly girl.
I miss romance, silliness, long conversations, and yes, snuggling & sex.
I've been known to dance until my feet blister, and I'd love a partner.
Watching TV makes me feel dirty, and not in a good way.
I'm anal about housework; slobs make my hands do choky motions. Long live the Oxford comma!
Kink is a plus.
Religion - any kind of religion - is not.

I don't buy Tall Girl's assertion, by the way, that monogamy is unnatural, much less unnatural for me. (Did I argue with her about it at the time? Of course not. I'm my mother's daughter.) Tall Girl and her parents are poly, but I know plenty of people my age for whom monogamy seems to be working out just fine after upwards of a decade, even if not without difficulties.

*Yeah, there are a couple of individuals I could use as examples, but they're off limits for various reasons, even off limits to this here LJ.
**An ancient joke that I first heard from