Sappy time.

This has been a truly wonderful weekend. Well, except for coming home FRiday and finding out that our phone service had been disconnected. *sigh* This was a result of my having switched to online billing and confusion with that system. (Note to self: switch back to paper billing.) But that's taken care of now.

I needed a wonderful weekend; I was having something that was almost a breakdown at work most of Friday. I was feeling terribly stressed about a bunch of stuff; not having time to do anything being a large part of it. I also found out that I couldn't get my second A+ exam in at New Horizons this weekend. Or the next weekend. Or the next. They were full. I'll have to check into other sites during lunch on Monday. Stupid communication problems on my part with Andrea in the early part of the week had stressed me too. There were moments when I was in danger of losing composure. It was a long day. It had been a long week. I really needed a nice weekend.

What I got was a magical weekend. Saturday morning Andrea and I went out for a nice long walk in the park I mentioned earlier. I made sandwiches, we bought bottled water and juice, and we walked about two miles out and back, stopping in Dodge Park for lunch. We just had a nice leisurely time, talking and enjoying each other's company. It's so peaceful down there, away from the city, and the air even feels health in a way that it doesn't up in the sprawl. The river is so peacful to walk along, and it was a truly beautiful day...

Then, in the evening, we got together our horde of feast gear to send off to ebay land. I brought up five boxes of stuff from the basement and we sat together on the living room floor sorting, cleaning, and listening to things like The Steel Bonnets and The New World Renaissance Band. All day I felt really connected with my sweetie in a way that time hasn't seemed to permit me lately and it felt so very good. *happy sigh* Then we went to bed where we connected in different, but equally wonderful, ways.

We were blessed with an equally wonderful day today. We got up early and went out to the flea market that wooisme's mother showed us. We were looking for antiqued brass stampings to epoxy over the engravings on some of our feast gear to make it more saleable. We didn't find them (the booth wasn't there), but it didn't matter because we had a wonderful time finding all the other little treasures hidden among the booths.

Having finished there, we decided to drive all the way out to Frankenmuth. Last year, a store there had a blown glass flower that fit our mental conception of a snowdrop from Neil Gaiman's book Stardust. It's a book that's very special to both of us. For my part, because Andrea gave it to me to read before I moved to be with her. It drew a very striking analogy for me; just as the main character was, I was going east to find my star... Andrea wanted the glass flower to be the 'something blue' for our wedding and we decided to take the hour long drive out there just to get it. This is something that I think is wonderfully silly and beautifully fitting, both for the two of us and the way we look at life. Unfortunately, the shop hadn't recieved the flowers yet this year so we were unable to get one of our own. Honestly, it hardly mattered because Andrea and I had spent the day together, enjoying our time, enjoying life. I feel renewed, refreshed. And I am so very much in love with her.

And that brings us up to the present. I badly needed a couple days of real peace and happiness, and the universe provided. I continue to believe that somehow, in some form, it always will. I'm back to school again next week and will be out of the house from 7 in the morning to 11 o'clock at night, but I think I can manage to deal with it. I know that I am loved, and I can get through anything else.