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“Through these eyes / looks like I’m home tonight”

—Smashing Pumpkins, LXv1.0, etc.

It’s that time of year again! Nostalgia time. Get out your lawn chairs and soak it in, folks.

No, I don’t really intend to do a long memory-lane post or anything this time ’round…just realizing it is indeed that Time Of Year (already May 5…!) and all that jazz. Most pointedly at this point it has becoming strikingly clear to me what an incredibly GOOD decision I made ~8 years ago…that is, the decision that landed me with Jeff. Blah blah blah you’ve heard it before but really and truly this year has only underscored what luck we had in finding each other. I won’t go into it but I do feel pretty dang lucky and somehow…fortune-seeking?…in having, in the end, relied on my heart to guide me, even as I’m all about logic the other thousands of days of my life.

None of that expressed adequately what I mean, but, whatever.

Nostalgia time! Bachelorette/other hijinks for and with Sarah/True Ten this weekend will satiate a lot of that. I think I’m also in a mood like this again thanks to Chloe graduating (!!!). I kind of can’t believe she’s graduating. I was looking through old journals collecting funny quotes of hers and realized she was, like, SEVEN YEARS OLD when I was writing that stuff…meaning I was 18. Meaning…high school was a Long Time Ago. Wow.

Again, failure to express myself adequately here but, whoa. 30.

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Double dentist date-appointment tonight. Woo hoo! We know how to do Cinco de Mayo in style ;). Luckily D and I had lupitas and margaritas last night preemptively.

Out.

Last Saturday was spent gloriously with Jeff. It was an incredibly wonderful day. We slept in, we lazed around, we did some chores and ate breakfast leisurely, we went to the gym for a long and intense workout without worrying about the clock (side note, some dude hit on me, at first I thought he was a fellow gymnastics fan so chatted him up, then quickly realized he was just watching me do gymn conditioning, CREEPY ha ha, luckily Jeff came over to stretch with me shortly thereafter), I got an overpriced sugary cold press, we fed the fish, we ate some lunch (note: not the fish), we threw in some laundry.

We randomly went to IKEA and browsed for almost two hours, leisurely strolling around and inspecting everything, marveling over small space solutions, talking about what we could do furniture- and house-configuration-wise to our little home. We went to get a burger, we came home and watched the second half of Groundhog Day that happened to be on TV, we did a little work. I took my sweet time making a yummy dinner and we lit candles and ate late at 9pm, listening to such pretty classical MPR music in the background and chatting about life.

We played Super Mario Brothers together on Wii (so difficult! but I did pass a level all by myself), we ate Easter candy, I surfed the internet while Jeff watched playoff hockey, we watched the end of Saturday Night Live. We put away laundry just past midnight and crashed into bed, sleeping in yet again on Sunday. A beautiful Saturday.

More to come.