I miss my man. I am genuinely totally okay on my own here – it’s not like I can’t function or enjoy myself and whatnot whenever he’s out of town. I just would have loved to have had him with me today and tonight and now… I’m always fully functional and able to enjoy life when he isn’t right beside me. But I just enjoy it all all the more whenever he is…
And it’s funny to me, you see. I wrote years ago about how – and I mean, like, possibly in middle school in some version of the wording, and then about seven years ago with this wording – I wanted to find a life partner and husband who absolutely could live without me, but who just didn’t want to live without me; someone who wanted and chose daily to live with me. I think he feels that way about me, but I know for sure that I feel that way about him. We don’t need each other to survive. Yes, it helps make life all the better, being together. But it isn’t a necessity for life – it is a choice we get to make. We don’t have to be together – we want to be together. And so, I hope we get to continue choose each other every single day for decades to come.
Thank you, God, for this wonderful man. Please, keep him safe and get him home to me tomorrow, healthy and well and holy and happy and safe, please. The dog, too, and all that jazz. Grant them safe travels, please. And grant us all great sleep tonight, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2023
P.S. Our gym had a white elephant gift exchange tonight. I ended up getting an electric kettle with a set of the LMNT electrolyte packets – I believe it was like a hot chocolate kind of gift box idea. Makes sense, right? The price limit was $30. We brought $30 gifts that were purchased using major online discounts – most people had done a version of this, taking advantage of cyber Monday and all that jazz, right? Exactly $30, but it’s really a $50 product. A lot of people also did the, ‘It only costs me $30, but it costs a non-member (or whoever else) $40-60. Cool. The best ‘deal’ seemed to be a Landry’s gift card set for $75 of gift cards. I was absolutely about to steal that, as it came up right before my turn. However, a couple stole it from each other in order to max out its steals right away, and I never got the chance. Well, onward… I had wanted to try these electrolyte things, and they had one more steal available at my turn, so I took them and knew I was set. What I did not know was that this was basically the best deal of them all, product cost wise. When I opened it and really looked at the two things at home, I could not believe this electric kettle was anywhere near $30, even with a discount. And I imagined the powders weren’t cheap either. Sure enough, the powders are $45 for a single purchase or $39 with a subscription. And the kettle? It is a $195 kettle! So, my “$30” gift was actually $260 with tax. However, they didn’t break the actual limit buying it. Why? Because the company had sent the kettle free with the regular order of the powders that the gym does. So, it was basically a free kettle and $30 of powders for them… Well, I’ll take it. And I did! Thank you, God, for this unexpected and awesome blessing! Amen!
hannah ananas 