i had all this typed up on disk but i was too deliriously happy to remember my name this morning and i forgot it. So, here goes . . .
Wednesday night was asstastic! (yes, this is a good thing) The band played on and played with fire and we all had a great time.
Thursday morning i reluctantly sent my sweetheart off to work and got some more sleep because i'm evil like that. i got up and ran to work to make the weekly departmental meeting and found food and manual labor awaiting me. i checked mail, replied to posts, and read the updates but didn't have time to update myself as it was time to retrieve my baby girl.
i picked Roni up and we went shopping for some new clothes since she didn't bring a bag and all my good clothes went with her for the summer, then picked up some food. i got her all scrubbed and shampooed and moisturized while i cooked dinner and we ate, played Candyland and then settled down for Dogma after The Angelic One got there.
Friday morning came all too soon and, yet again, i ever so reluctantly sent my love off to work and caught a few more zzzzzzs. i got up at 11, but Roni slept until almost 2pm! That sort of blew the good part of the day so we stopped up at work for her to see Ra who had been dreaming about her, then ran off to see a movie. We ended up seeing The Mummy Returns at the dollar theatre and loved it so much we went home and watched The Mummy since Roni had missed that one.
Saturday morning we got up at 11 again and goofed off for a while. We visited some random people and shopped some more, and painted Roni's fingers and toes, and decided it was waaaay too hot outside to consider going to a park, and shopped even more. We picked up The Emperor�s New Groove and stuff to make beaded jewelry since it's something i can do and actually like.
We were a few minutes late getting home but he waited all 15 minutes for us and was rewarded with a ring. A ring with a key on it. Roni got to be the one to present it to him.
We discussed what we wanted to do and since no one wanted to pick anything, i told them both to just get in the truck and i drove. i settled on Barnes and Nobles and we each browsed about on our own, meeting up at random. i picked up two Heinleins, an Anne Rice, and S.T.P.'s Core. Yummylicious!
The three of us promptly adjourned to T.G.I. Friday's for some dinner and there was Drama! The guy at the table next to us suddenly passed out in the middle of dinner and fell off his chair! He was fine as it turns out and the paramedics cleared him to go home and drink plenty of water and take care not to pass out anywhere else.
After dinner we drifted over to Heaven . . . oh, i mean, The Home Depot. We wandered aimlessly about looking for the little plastic tabs the hold mirrors up or glass panes in the doors of grandmother clocks. We gave up and went home feeling mellow-happy-calm despite out failure to locate the objects we quested for. It was duly noted that i seem to be a guy. The smell of sawdust, machine oils, loam, and all the other lovelies in hardware stores make me a happy girl.
When we got home i put on S.T.P. and we all three played with chalk all over the patio and sidewalk. Angel and i made a huge drunk smiley on the wall, Roni drew the sad little Crackmunky, Angel drew a happy monkey with a yellow shirt, and we all drew pretty flowers and played hopscotch. We went in and sent Roni through the shower and watched The Emperor�s New Groove and i loved it.
Roni was very wide-awake still and super nosy and then demanded a 'TALK. RIGHT NOW!' with me, we got a few things straight and then she came in to the living room and curled up with us for a mommy story and then back to bed.
i have to say, through everything, he was amazing. She likes him a lot, really loved playing with him, and only balked at bedtime when she realized he was not leaving. i think the prospect of someone else really meaning a lot to me is scary to her and i called her on it. She was the whole world to me since birth and has never really had to share. Now, at six, i finally found someone truly special and she is confused about liking him and being jealous of him at the same time. But he stayed calm and understood. And he STAYED. i know that if i had been confronted with the wrath of a teary-eyed possessive six-year-old, i'd have wanted to run.
Well, as usual, the weekend didn't turn out as i'd planned, but we had fun and threw stuff at each other and played and laughed and fought and tickled and loved and snuggled and had a good time overall. i didn't want to get up this morning. i wanted to lie there in his arms and savor the weekend, the feel of him close by, the knowledge that my princess was in the next room sleeping like a baby, and the fact that everything in the universe was, for that moment, perfect.
And that brings me to now.
"Wicked Garden" ~ Stone Temple Pilots
"Can you feel like a child?
Can you see what i want?
i wanna run through your wicked garden
Heard that's the place to find you "
confessed on 2001-07-22