Diffused Illumination

It is not often that I pine over things from the past that no longer exist although I will confess pining for the fjords! burst out of me for some inexplicable reason in the bathroom yesterday.

There are a few long lost loves where a sudden recollection of them can cause me to sigh, perhaps even to shed a tear or two.

However, this one reappeared this morning and provoked instant love, probably some lust, attraction, tears, and a triumphant YES!! YESSS!! OMG YESSSS!!!!!

I'm certain my beloved understands.

POTION!!!!

Kieran was up at Grandma's house for 3 nights and didn't once ask about us except for the agreed-in-advance phone calls before bedtime. He is so getting sent up there more often now.

Grandma's pooped but had fun too. We enjoyed peace, quiet, each other, and the ability to sleep past 5:45 in the morning. It's certainly great to have him back home but I can't honestly say I missed him all that much. I guess this is a good sign for when he moves out for college?

Despite being rained out toward the end we had a great time at the zoo this morning complete with making crafts. Kieran did an excellent job singing with his double-sized (morning and evening) choir in front of an insane number of people this afternoon. He was really into the entire service (how could you not be with singing and dancing glow angels?), and the look on his face when we lit candles around the sanctuary is one of those freeze-frame moments of life I'll always have. He could hardly wait to light our Advent wreath candles when we got home.

There's the presents, the Chinese food on our wedding china, toasting in some ancient Spode Christmas Tree goblets (Kieran got to join in with sparkling cider in our crystal), baking the Christmas roll for tomorrow's breakfast (massive pastry in a pizza dish, recipe from friends our first married Christmas), and setting out cookies & milk for Santa and apples for the reindeer (he actually fed a reindeer some apple yesterday, that was A Major Moment), then curling up on the couch all together to read 'The Night Before Christmas' before bed. He crashed hard & fast, poor tired and extremely excited boy.

What still makes me tear up the most despite all these wonderful things?
( The answer )

Peace.

( The things I do for my geek when I couldn't care less about WoW... )

For those who haven't met him before, this is Twilight.. the namesake of my journal and some sort of Russian blue mix. This picture was taken specifically for a guild forum thread. The rolled eyes attitude is about right.

More of why I love my husband, a double shot...

While I was racing around with Kieran early this morning, he discovered that I had neglected a partially-dried and musty load of my jeans in the dryer. He rewashed & redried them without comment until I opened the dryer much later this morning and exclaimed surprise at finding my stuff in there.

Despite my complete & utter stupidity in marking a party that is in two weeks as tomorrow and not figuring it out until this afternoon when I took a closer look at the invitation, he called his family with pluralistic grace regarding the error & that we wouldn't be there to visit them afterward as planned.

Personally, I think he's elated he won't miss the World Cup final after all. I may just make him the nachos he's craving as a surprise.

Seven years ago this morning, I walked outside my apartment to be greeted by a police officer who asked, "Is that your car, ma'am?" It was broken into with the driver's window smashed out but nothing stolen. Other cars in the complex weren't so fortunate, so I considered myself lucky.

The scenario was most annoying since that was also the day we made the transition from apartment renters to homeowners and the parking situation is considerably more secure at our home.

I count myself luckier still that, despite a broken pipe and hot water heater, we have a durable and cute little place on a not-so-little plot (for the city) that is conservatively worth almost double what we paid for it. This year our principal will dip into the 5 digit range & be paid off by the time Kieran's a sophomore in high school, just in time for college. Yay!

There is something even more illicit about not only sneaking in a kiss on company time, but sharing a gargantuan chocolate cupcake before noon that was provided by his senior management.

It's been a long, evil week.

I have to remember there is always hope. Chocolate cheesecake is the first step!

In over 7 years of being together, these have taken many forms from email to actual letters and (our favorite) post-it notes. Some of the latter have stayed in the same place for years and are probably cemented to whatever they are stuck on.

I don't think many of them reflect our humor, a reminder and the current state of affairs as the one I left in the Camry as I drove in to work this morning though:

You honor me by giving me gas under $2.69

Ah, love & Chevron.

Yeah, I'm just a little excited now that LJ has finally decided to stop putting whatever server my account is on in read-only status. I even cut my husband off on the phone when a ticketing screen refresh finally decided to acknowledge it was 10am and let me in so I could race through the preliminaries to land good seats.

I thought that it had been years since we'd been to a concert but that isn't true, there was They Might Be Giants with Kieran last year. This is a much different setting though, and I can't wait.

Even better, there is no fear of the Depeche Mode concert curse. The only two times I've seen them were immediately preceded or followed by the sudden unexpected deaths of my paternal grandparents. Although I haven't seen my father in years, I don't wish to off him next...