Anniversary Day!

I have a most wonderful husband! Look at these beautiful flowers I received today expressing his love. I do love my laughing bouncing nutty lovable huggable Tigger!

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Thank you for being you.

Love is the most wonderful thing

It’s my second wedding anniversary and I’m in Mukilteo, WA, over 2000 miles from my wife. I’ve heard many older couples describe how their love grows deeper with every year that passes. Today, I’m barely into my third decade, and two years married and I feel like that truth is an iceberg that I can only see the tip of. I had an experience last week that really brought this to the forefront of my conscience.

I was hanging out with a group of guys that I used to work with. They are all great guys, and all rich in skills related to the Internet industry. They have their own company that’s doing well and I was sitting around in their “offices”. Watching six guys working away in close proximity with piles of computer equipment all around awakened many fond memories in my past.

For a short time, I reminisced about how much fun those days were. The whole dating thing, a job that was so fun you’d work late “just because”, and chasing all manner of pursuits. However, it didn’t take long to remember the rest of the memories from the bachelorhood era of my life. It was a great time, but I left that era because this new one was calling so loudly.

Today, I’ve been away from Jennifer for seven days. Absence does make the heart grow fonder. I miss her sorely and despite having a great time here, I’m beyond ready to be with her again. I miss seeing her every day when she comes home for lunch. I love her habit of breaking into whatever I’m engrossed in so that I’ll pause and pay attention to her. I miss feeling her next to me as I sleep.

I cannot find enough words to describe all she means to me. She is the one I spent all those years looking for. She is so worth that wait. As I sat there observing “a life in the day of an uber-geek”, I couldn’t help but smile inside. Sure, the place in life where these guys are living is good, but what I have now is so much better, it needs a new category to describe it.

I can see that the future has so many wonderful and rewarding things in store. Jennifer, thank you for being so committed to us. Thank you to being so willing to learn and grow with me. Thank you for all that you are. You are great and marvelous, beyond my understanding. I can’t find words to express how much I look forward to spending the rest of my life with you.

Life isn’t fair

Sometimes you just have to take what life dishes out. Today, I got up and made crepes for Ricardo and I. After breakfast, the sun came out so a command decision needed to be made. This was the warm sunny day we were waiting for so we loaded up the truck and headed for the dock.

We put the boat in the water and puttered around the smooth as glass Puget Sound for a few hours, suffering intensely in the warm mid-day sun. Many others apparently felt the need to suffer as we did for there were quite a few other boats heading in and out.

After spending a good part of the day out on the water, we headed back in. A local fisherman had a sign out on the marina advertising his shrimp so we just had to stop and pick up some fresh shimp. It was quite fortunate as we had been terribly concerned about what our next meal might be.

I’ve posted a few pictures.

Greetings from Seattle

My flight arrived last night in sunny warm Seattle. What a lovely place the Pacific Northwest is. Most of the spring flowers are at the end of their bloom peaks and it’s a lovely sight. This is such a wonderful place to be.

Summer is heating up

The temperatures in northern Michigan are finally rising and for many that we know, their schedules are heating up just as quickly. That is certainly the case for Jen and I. Today Jen leaves for Orlando for most of the week.

She get’s back Thursday and the following Tuesday, I hop on a Jet bound for Seattle for a long week. I’ll be spendng some time out there assisting Ricardo (Jen’s dad) after his foot surgery.

A few weeks later we hop back onto a Jet bound for Alaska for 9 days. There’s also that expense paid trip to a warm sunny Caribbean island that we have to take this year. At least we don’t have to worry about being bored. 🙂