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Day 44 and Counting… Our First Musical and a Promise

Posted: October 16, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

My wife has always been interested in theater and musicals and such. I really haven’t been, but I want to support the things she likes, and one of the things about moving downtown is that there are several theaters right near our loft. They have been playing Cats at one of them and Ceecee really wanted to go. I decided to take her, but I procrastinated buying the tickets until today. There was only standing room left, which sucked, but it was either that or miss it, so I bought them.

On the way there, she stopped me on the sidewalk, kissed me, and said, “Let’s make a pact that we will never intentionally hurt each other again.” It was an amazing moment.

I thought Cats was pretty good, but Ceecee absolutely loved it. At one point, I looked over at her while she was watching and her face was absolutely shining. It made me so glad I had taken her and also makes me want to do more of this in the future if it makes her this happy.

Day 42 and Counting… An Unpleasant Surprise

Posted: October 15, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Quite an unexpected and unpleasant surprise first thing this morning.

My wife doesn’t have a classroom of her own, so she usually hangs out in my room and gets on my computer in the mornings before school starts. She checks her email and such and today, I happened to walk over while she had her hotmail inbox open and I saw that there was a message from that guy from her past. The subject line said, “can we talk?”

I asked her about it and she said she was sorry that I had to see it and that she’s just ignoring him. I asked her how often he’s writing to her and she said, “pretty much everyday.” I asked her if she wanted me to get involved and do something about it, but she said no, and please not to, that it would only make it worse.

I’m not sure what that means, but it left me feeling pretty sick and uneasy for the rest of the day.

Day 40 and Counting…Racing a Storm

Posted: October 13, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Today, we rode our bikes to work and on the way home, we could see a storm approaching right where we were heading. We raced it, and right as we were reaching downtown, it hit.

I almost got blown over by a powerful wind gust and we were still trying to get to the loft when the rain started. We were right on the corner where our favorite cupcake place is, so we went for it and dashed inside. After the storm, we went home and Ceecee made Italian wedding soup!

Day 39 and Counting…

Posted: October 12, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Frustrating night at Macy’s. I don’t want to do this much longer. Fortunately, I get to go home to my wonderful Ceecee!

Day 37 and Counting… Great Memories in a Great City

Posted: October 11, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Wish we could have just frozen this weekend in St. Louis and made it last forever. These days were about as close to perfect as any have ever been in my life. We went to all of our favorite places, laughed until our sides ached, and I’ve got to be the luckiest man who has ever lived.

Day 35 and Counting…Playing Hooky

Posted: October 10, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Friday, September 10, 2010

We played hooky from work and went to St. Louis this weekend. That’s a little tricky to do, since we both work at the same place. We can’t really just both call in sick, so I put “out of town appointment” as the reason to be gone. I figured they’ll assume it’s a doctor’s appointment and I won’t tell them any different.

Ceecee and I are going through this amazing awakening in our marriage and it just keeps growing. Everything seems new and we are experiencing things we never knew were possible. I don’t how long it can stay like this, but I’m pretty much living the dream right now.

Day 33 and Counting…More Ring Restoration

Posted: October 9, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Got my wedding ring back from the jeweler today. He did a great job. My Mother gave me some of her really old gold jewelry that she doesn’t wear anymore, and I gave it to the jeweler, so it hardly cost any money to get my ring done. I also got to introduce my wife to him, which was extremely cool, since he repaired both of our rings, one before we split up, and one after we got back together.

Day 31 and Counting…Laboring on Labor Day

Posted: October 8, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Monday, September 6, 2010

Labor day, indeed. So glad this weekend is finally over. I’m still working at Macy’s, as well as teaching, and we just finished our Labor Day sale. It’s one of the two biggest sales of the year in the furniture and mattress department where I work.

I had to work all three days and it was insane. I’ve never been nearly that busy and we had a major system crash with our computers right in the middle of it. Ceecee and I don’t really need the extra income now, and I’ll probably only stay until right before the holidays. We usually travel over Thanksgiving, so this will help pay for all that, but I’m not willing to get stuck having to work and not be able to go anywhere.

Ceecee ran 20 miles in her training for the marathon over the weekend. I don’t know how she does it.

Day 29 and Counting…Ring Restoration

Posted: October 7, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

I took my wedding ring in to the same jeweler that fixed Ceecee’s before we separated. Mine has been through a lot, and it’s developed a small crack on the bottom and is somewhat out of round.

He said that it wasn’t made very well and simply doesn’t have enough gold in it to repair the crack. He said he would need to add more gold to it and then it could be made stronger. I agreed, but told him I didn’t like the thought of being without my ring while the work was being done. I asked him if there was any chance that he had a plain wedding band that I could use as a loaner, so my finger wouldn’t be “naked.”

He didn’t, but he took a piece of white gold and went in the back and I could hear him tinkering around. When he came back out, he had actually made me a plain band to wear. He said he understood and that I could keep it.

I got a chance to share some of our story with him and he loved it. I hope that Ceecee will come with me when the ring is ready, because I’d really like to be able introduce her to him.

Day 27 and Counting…Tornado Sirens

Posted: October 6, 2012 in Love and Marriage
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Rather hilarious place we found ourselves this evening. Let’s just say that lately, our physical relationship has been off the charts and we were “otherwise engaged” when the tornado sirens went off. I was hearing them in the back of my mind, but not enough to comprehend what they meant.

When we finally realized that the sirens were sounding, and had been for some time, we jumped out of bed and frantically began trying to figure out what to do. We were in the loft building on the second floor and had no idea where to go, or even if there was any kind of shelter.

You’d think we would have been scared because of our past and my PTSD, but I had been getting treatment in therapy to overcome my fears of tornadoes and we found ourselves laughing and treating it like a silly adventure. Of course, it helped that the radar showed us to not be in any real danger.

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