Every once in a while we need to be apart.
It is the best way to remember why we are together.

Sunday

Today was a lovely day. We spent it as we love to spend our Sundays, completely at rest. We had brunch on base and then went to the grocery store. After a stop at the hair salon we came home, worked on homework, read, ate dinner, and watched a movie. The boy went to bed and now we are playing online for a bit before we head to bed as well.

Other than the trip to the salon, this is all we could ever ask from a Sunday, at least until the world warms up a bit. Once that happens we will add a nice walk to our day. We spend so much of our week running about that it is nice to have a day of down time.

Love

Love, originally uploaded by allysther.

Love is a wonderful thing, and I am happy to still be so in love with my husband. 17 years is a long time.

Yesterday a friend commented that we act like we have been married for just a short time. She asked me when our honeymoon would end. told her "Never, I hope." and I wondered again how other people act with their spouses.

We don't act the same way we did when we were first married. We do act as if we are two people who love one another very much.

Long hard week

It's been a long hard week, but we are making our way through the rough patch now, and we should be back to normal soon.

First Book

First Book, originally uploaded by allysther.

YAY! The Boy read me a book from cover to cover. Thank you to Zanla for snapping the picture!

This was Friday, 8 February.

Lovely!

Ok, this is only going to make you laugh if you like cat macros. If you don't like them, lucky you! I find them insanely funny (now you know my dirty secret)!

Anyway--go HERE if you enjoy them. Iz funneh!


To stay in the mood of this silly post, Happy Birthday!


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Yes We Can

I am still arguing with myself with the candidates, so please don't see this as my endorsement. I think that this was an amazing speech, though, and I am astounded by this video.

Political speech at its finest.



Thank you to my friend Gia for posting this. I know she didn't do it just for me, but I know that she knew it would make me smile.

Ohhhh, there's also THIS

Good for you, Montel Williams

Montel Williams gives a reasoned speech about the importance of reporting actual news instead of gossip. His show was canceled three days later.

More info here.

This is not a story I had heard, and honestly I don't know how it appeared before me, but I thought it was a good thing to post.

I spent quite a few years wrapped up in the cult of celebrity worship. I'm glad I am finished with that part of my life. Heath Ledger's death was a tragedy for his family, not for the rest of humanity. Thank you, Mr. Williams for reminding us of this fact.

In case you are wondering, there have been 40 US deaths so far this year. I found the information at icasualties.org.

Scooter fun

I tried to send this out to a few people, but the link failed. This is the boy on his new scooter.

Giant Gummi Bear

Tonight's discussion was about giant gummi bears. I have NO idea how we made it to this topic, but the boy and I had a very long talk about what we would do if a giant gummi bear ate our apartment building.

We agreed that the gummi bear picked up the building from the top, ripped it from the ground, and swallowed it whole, starting from the first floor. We both thought that being upright in the apartment would be better. We agreed that everyone inside the building would survive, but we argued over what would happen with the gummi innards.

He was pretty sure that the windows would be crushed, and that we would end up suspended in gummi. I disagreed, saying that gummi is actually very sturdy stuff, and the windows would feel pressure but would not break. I also said that if they broke it would be ok, as my escape plan was to open a window and eat my way to safety. He thought we would have too much to eat, and that we would have to tunnel out, but first we would have to break free.

After a long debate over the properties of gummi versus jelly or jello consistency we realized that we needed a tiebreaker. Luckily Wendall was relaxing in a warm bath, and had full use of his rational mind.

He asked us if the building had been pulled out of the ground and eaten immediately. We affirmed that it had. He then smiled and reminded us of all of the water in the pipes. It would run out of the pipes and into the gummi bear's belly. Gummi dissolves in water, so the building would simply slip through the hole that the water created.

I'm so glad we had a rational mind to look at the situation in a new light. I kept picturing the bear to be orange, my least favorite, and I was really unhappy that I would have to eat so much of it to escape!