Love’ has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
-Katherine Hepburn
October, 2008:
Happy Halloversary
Today is my 2nd wedding anniversary. Two years ago, the architect & I got hitched at Multnomah Falls – a bold move for the end of October in the Pacific Northwest. We were lucky (in oh, so many ways), and it didn’t start raining until about 10 PM that night.
In the last 2ish years, we’ve gone through a LOT of changes. We moved to Portland from Los Angeles. We got new jobs. We bought a house. I got another new job. We adopted a new baby (cat). We have done home improvement projects together without ever actually threatening to kill the other party. And we still kinda like each other.
I can’t imagine anyone else (with maybe the exception of Johnny Depp or something) that I would’ve rather done all those things with. We have our issues – I think most couples do – but every year (we’ve been together 6 years now) – we get better & better at resolving them.
Tonight, after handing out candy to the neighborhood ghosties, we’re going out for dinner. That’s about all we have planned for this year. But really – who needs more? I’ve already got the best husband AND the day off.
I love you Mr. Architect – and I’m definitely looking forward to spending many more Halloversaries together.
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And – as a reminder – 4 days until the election:
Vacation!
Today, I didn’t get out of bed until 8:30! Which honestly, means I suck at sleeping in. I thought about staying in bed longer, but I could smell the coffee (the architect makes awesome coffee) and I couldn’t convince anyone to bring me a cup in bed.
I lazed around a bit, and then went for a run. It was my first hilly run since July – and it sucked/was awesome. I only ran 2 1/2 miles, but I did a big hill (250 feet of elevation gain in 1/10 of a mile) – and I did it twice. My legs were jelly by the time I got home. Obviously I need to be doing that a LOT more often. In July, that was part of my warm-up.
I am trying to a) update my WordPress and b) work on a super-secret project for the architect. Those two computer-heavy tasks did not go well together. Hopefully now that my blog is indiscernably fancier, I can work on the architect’s project.
I also finished getting the garden ready for winter today AND raked all of our leaves. Of course, the wind is picking up, so I’m guessing that soon you won’t be able to tell that I raked at all.
While raking, I pondered three things.
1) How long could I keep my leaf fire going before the fire department showed up and how big a fine would that really be? (And could I convince the firemen that some gosh-darn kids set the fire in my neatly raked leaf piles? And would the firemen be cute?)
2) Why didn’t we get even one walnut this year, even though we have three walnut trees?
3) How is it possible for a tree to smell so much like gin, but yet grow walnuts? And should I have a martini when I finish raking?
In other news: Just under 5 days until the election – DON’T FORGET TO VOTE! (Even if you don’t vote with me, VOTE!)
PORN!!!
Today is a special day in shoe-porn land. Piper Lime is having a birthday.
Go – celebrate – buy shoes!
In case you can’t read the text, it says “Enjoy $20 off your next purchase. 1 in every 100 orders will even get $100 off.”
GO! SHOP! I COMMAND YOU! (I’ll wait.)
What – you need some ideas?
Okay – how about these:
Or these:
Or even these:
And now a question – is it tacky to have your knee-high stocking sticking out an inch or so above your knee-high boots? I think it is. The woman I stared at disapprovingly yesterday (until I realized I was NOT wearing my sunglasses) apparently did not.
Readers?
Als0 – as you are likely aware it is slightly less than 6 days until the election. VOTE!
Drawing a blank
I had a great weekend. Hung with my friend, the cheetah & got to see her new house for the first time. We were supposed to be having knitting night, but mostly we had drinking wine & eating night – still quite satisfactory.
Saturday & Sunday were yard work days. It was a gorgeous weekend – one you don’t necessarily expect at the end of July, and we got everything ready for winter (mostly).
Saturday night we went to a wine tasting event with some of my co-workers. Although a good time was had by all, there wasn’t enough wine to make me lose my social inhibitions, so mostly I just talked to the architect.
Monday was a crazy day with much business and a whole lot of late afternoon suck. Seriously – I got lost in the back woods of Washington state. I will tell you the whole story next week as part of the story involved obtaining a gift for the architect for our anniversary.
Other Monday highlights:
1) Physical therapy
2) Weight watchers (with HTC)
3) Dentist (still no cavities)
4) I got my 55-gallon food grade barrels so that I can make my own rain barrels! Note to others: it is next to impossible to fit 2 55-gallon food grade barrels in a Hyundai Elantra.
5) Didn’t make it to my run w/ the cheetah due to the dentist
6) Did manage to make it to the grocery store
7) Did get the architect’s gift from the backwoods of Washington state without getting murdered or running out of gas (that was a real danger). Thanks to the architect – I had to call him to look me up on google maps & tell me a) where I was; b) how to get to where I was going [without telling him why]; and c) how to get back to civilization so I could put gas in my car & find the freeway.
Today has been busy. I’m only at work two days this week, and I have a big project that needs to be submitted today, as well as one that needs to be mostly done for submission next week.
I am looking forward to my mini-vacay, even though we’re not going anywhere special. Just hanging out at home w/ the kitties & chillaxing. At least that’s my plan!
I tried to stop by & read everyone’s blogs today, but if I didn’t leave a comment, it’s not because I don’t love you – I do! Really! (Well, except for you….) I’m just hella busy.
I’ll have porn tomorrow, and then maybe some real content (and not just a boring ‘what’s amy doing’ post) on Thursday.
