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February 14th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone.
My little girls and I are wearing red dresses today, because we can. I am about to go to the grocery store, and I am a LEEETLE bit embarrassed to be wearing a long red gown, but HEY!
Valentine’s day only comes once a year, and the girls are excited about “matching”.
If I had money, I would whisk TH away on a cruise. He needs vast expanses of water and sky to soothe his burdened mind. He knows that I don’t mind at ALL that he doesn’t have money…I don’t need some fancy present to feel loved! but he still worries about it.
I have what I really want from him - his heart. And not just because he says so, but because he trusts me enough to tell me what he really feels, and he always puts me first.
When he was leaving the bedroom this morning to start work, all damp and spicy-smelling after his shower, he leaned to kiss me, saying “I don’t want to leave you.”
And I thought, If Valentine’s day was over right now, I just got what I wanted!
Tonight, we are taking the kids out to dinner. They THINK they are being dropped off at a babysitter’s house while WE go on a date, haha!
They’ll be happily surprised.
Gotta do some more homework now….
February 14th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
I don’t know why I am so cotton-picking tired today!
All my classes went well, but I was terribly sleepy through all of them and found it difficult to concentrate.
I went to bed at a reasonable hour last night, and yes, TH woke me early by taking me in his arms and doing mind-boggling things to me, but that was at around five-thirty. So I still got about eight hours of sleep.
But I kicked butt in math class today, and got one small question wrong on my second history quiz, and it was a good day.
My kids are home finally, too!
But I’m toast. I want to go to bed right NOW.
February 12th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
Here’s a picture of me that TH took….I was dressed and had lipstick on, and he was still in bed (that is rare!).
I had been playing with the camera and he grabbed it. I was kneeling by the bed trying to wheedle it away from him. *smiling*
February 12th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
Had such a wonderful night with my husband.
*dreamy sigh*
I am still in my bathrobe - its the super-plushy cherry red one my children gave me for Christmas. I LOVE it!
At first I thought I wouldn’t like it because its short, and I wanted long….but its so VERY warm that it would be TOO warm if it was long! My feet get chilly but that keeps me comfortable.
Anyway.
TH is working in the shop on the doors for the Snooty House. I am glad because
a. it is easier on his body to do that than to work underneath the car all day!
b. he has been worrying about being able to get them finished in time, because of all the car problems he’s had to fix, and
c. it makes him happy to work with wood, under normal circs.
Like, no one is freaking out at him to hurry up, or telling him he’s not going to be paid, or something like that.
Also, I like it when he smells like mahogany or walnut.
Car oil, not so much.
I have to get in the bathtub and then get busy with the large pile of homework I have…and this afternoon is the Phi Theta Kappa thing I have to go to!
I’m looking forward, a bit nervously, to that. Just…..no clue what to expect, at all, you know?
February 12th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
I am not sure about this new layout. I mean, it looks great with the photographs, but when it is just typing, will it be lame?
Let’s look at this one and then decide.
Its WEDNESDAY!!! I love Wednesdays, because I have college AND a date with TH AND then more college AND the kids are gone tonight which means a very peaceful evening, usually.
Tonight, poor TH is still out there struggling with his car, and I’m just about to go make him knock off for the night and come eat pasta with me.
I haven’t made it yet, I am just about to.
I love that I totally understood math class today.
I love that I can SEE I am getting better, at my drawings and at my photographs.
I love having lunch with TH!
I love that he said THIS to me over lunch: “Its totally up to you, but it kinda doesn’t feel right to leave the kids on our weekend with them…I want to have a date for Valentine’s day, but how would you feel about having a date WITH the kids? We could take them out to dinner, and then to Triple Play or something? and then I will take you dancing NEXT weekend, when we don’t have them?”
What sort of man actually WANTS to take the children (which he is not biologically related to) on a date with us????
The kind I was smart enough to pick, that’s what kind. *smiling*
Funny thing - I was sitting just inside the door of LK Hall, waiting for TH to pick me up, and Michelynn strolled up. She was on her way out and stopped to say hi.
As SHE was standing there talking to me, a guy came up and hit on me!
*laughing* She had texted TH and told him about it before I even got out the door, because when I called him, not TWO MINUTES later, he already knew.
It was funny. Even if I was not deliciously involved, let us consider the eveidence:
He was very large and also bearded (strike one).
He was wearing a plaid flannel shirt/jacket (strike two, at least!).
His opening line was “What’s your name, by the way?” (Strike three, because you can’t say ‘by the way’ if you have never spoken to the person before; ‘by the way’ implies a continuation of a previous or ongoing conversation).
He then told me I was “absolutely gorgeous” and began to beat around the asking-out bush. I smiled and very kindly excused myself and beat it around the corner - I will NEVER never be rude or “as if!” ish to anyone, unless they are rude or gross in their pick-up attempt.
I mean, nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? TH himself was afraid to approach me, when he first saw me in the store where I worked, thinking I most assuredly was involved with someone (which I was, when we first met!), but told himself firmly that he was too old to use fear as an excuse! and called the store from the parking lot, asking to speak to me.
I admire men’s courage, I really do. It must be scary to usually be the one “approaching”.
All right, I have gotten more philosophical than I intended, and I really want my dinner, so off I go to cook!
February 10th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
Here’s a picture that IS for my assignment….I just took this flower out of the vase and stuck it in the snow for a couple minutes.
Didn’t seem to hurt it any, but we’ll see if it wilts faster now…
February 10th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
Here’s a picture that IS for my assignment….I just took this flower out of the vase and stuck it in the snow for a couple minutes.
Didn’t seem to hurt it any, but we’ll see if it wilts faster now…
February 10th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
It’s snowing again.
Really, do we NEED more snow? We have already broken every record in the book this year, and TH has to drive back down south TOMORROW!
*sigh*
February 10th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
I don’t know if I should post these pictures or not.
These were not “carefully following instructions” pictures. They are just playing with the camera to see what it will do pictures.
Therefore, I’m sure people will look at them and think “she should have opened the aperture to thus-and-so”, and I WAS JUST PLAYIN.
This time.
I do have a large assignment due next weekend….
…but in the meantime, here’s some pictures.
February 8th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Roux
I am having computer issues - Michelynn’s deadbeat boyfriend downloaded some huge-ass software on TH’s computer, and all the computers in the house are networked so we can share the wireless internet, and now ALL the computers are screwed up.
WE DONT NEED ANY MORE REASONS TO BE ANNOYED AT THIS FELLOW!!
He already parks across the middle of the damn driveway, eats up all our food, doesn’t do any work, won’t get a damn job, forgets to let the dogs out when he’s the only one here so they crap, and then doesn’t clean it up, argues with Michelynn incessantly, and leaves the lights on when he’s the last one going to bed.
Among a myriad of other things, both small and great.
Anyway.
It’s a beautiful day! and we have to go to the store in a minute, but we’ve been hanging out and talking all day, playing with the cameras, etc.
We went on a HUGE long walk, which was lovely, and talked about our career paths.
I have some ideas for sharpening our focus, which is good, and I need to make him new business cards….
…oh, by the way, we won’t have our new painting in our house for awhile, because it needs to stay in our friend’s exhibit till the end of the month.
Then, I will take pictures of it. Hopefully on it’s easel that TH wants to make.
It is unframed, and we both feel it should stay that way.
Off to the store!
