There is the cocktail napkin with the phone number scrawled on it (first meeting); the loose Scrabble tiles that spell out "thank you" (a clever early gift); forgotten pro-and-con lists and creased apology notes (danger signs); a kitschy dog-shaped teapot (the too-comfortable phase sets in); plus photographs and holiday snapshots, mix CDs, menus and birthday cakes.
Issa and Lawrence have fallen into the too-comfortable phase of their relationship, the point where they or, really, just Issa have to decide if this comfort is the sign of a good, stable relationship they can settle down with or if it's time for them to seek more exciting things.
Part of the attraction is that it's a transitional space designed to keep visitors comfortable as they phase from one reality to the next.
By 2011, he had reached a phase of comfortable accomplishment, both in his construction at Bastrop and in his creative life more generally.
Nadal, on the other hand, is comfortable playing all three phases of a point, defending, neutralizing, or going on the offensive.
The radiotracer is administered intravenously (dose dependent on both the count rate capability of the system used and the patient's weight), and the patient is left resting in a comfortable position during the uptake phase (60 90 min).
Arsenal only need to avoid a three-goal defeat in their final Champions League group game away to Napoli in Italy to reach the knockout phase after a comfortable win against Marseille at Emirates Stadium.
The causes are multiple: the waiting time is often considered to be too long and waiting rooms are therefore less comfortable, patients at the diagnostic phase are anxious about the result and patients on treatment are often more tired.
In an online exercise, the expert panel indicated whether they would classify the patient as having gout with sufficient confidence to feel comfortable enrolling that patient into a Phase 3 trial of a new urate-lowering agent.
It was important to emphasize that names could be made up and would be deleted, as after this reassurance was given, all Phase B participants were comfortable entering names, nicknames or initials.
