Well, friends and neighbors, the weekend is drawing to a close. Not really a holiday we celebrate, as it’s not ours anymore- more of a general day in which a lot of things are closed and there’s less traffic on the roads. That’s something we tend to approve of.
What I *do* spend some time doing around this time is puttering around my little courtyard and see how my perennials are doing (honeysuckle, rosebush, willow tree, and the something something I don’t remember the name of with purple flowers are all sending out green shoots this minute) and decide what’ll go in the containers for the new year. I’ve about decided to go with a moonlight garden- meaning the plants will show up nice in minimal light and/or bloom after sunset. Seems like I spend the most time in the nice months in my courtyard at night, taking in the cool air.
I also get a little thoughtful about things. Like love.
Some folk who have met him might think that my mister is a quiet type who doesn’t say much how he feels. In some ways that’s true and in others it totally isn’t.
We’re geeks, and we’re fond of our gear. I got myself (and the mister one of his own cause we don’t share so goodly) this handheld gaming computer called a GPD. Think of a Switch, but with Windows on it, and way more powerful. Well, wouldn’t you freakin know it, the left joystick on mine went out last fall. A little irksome, but it was what it was, and is still useful (it’s what I’m writing this on this minute).
Well. The company that makes GPDs dropped a new model, the Win 4. And the mister just quietly went and ordered us a pair without actually mentioning it til it was a done deal.
On Friday, the first one came in. And you know, without even a word, he handed it to me.
That’s love, people.
I’ve mentioned before a bit about how I’ve started having trouble with my hands. They won’t always hold what I want to hold, and they don’t always let me do all the things I want to do. I was lamenting the Jedi Fallen Order game being just too hard for me with standard controllers.
You know what the mister is doing this minute? He’s going through the process of pairing Switch controllers to the new GPD so I can try playing Fallen Order on his Steam account and see if I can handle it.
Again, that’s love. I don’t need dozens of roses or gaudy jewelry. Eyes that see and a heart that cares… worth a thousand thousand sonnets to me.
I know, I know, you came for the actual conversation, and I won’t disappoint.
Last night, we were mulling over what to do.. it’s been really warm here, and that makes us lazier than usual, so we’d been going back and forth. Suddenly it hit me, while Rick was standing in the den next to the haphazardly organized shelf of games.
Me- That’s it! Grab Something Wild!
Rick, holding two cans of soda- Ooookay.. but what?
Me, blinking at him- the game? Something Wild?
Rick, looking at the shelf and realizing we have three games sitting right next to his hand called ‘Something Wild’ and starting to laugh- I thought you wanted me to pick something at random
Cue the kind of laughter that makes the whole day brighter.
If that’s not worth pondering and celebrating, I don’t know what is.
Curiouser and Curiouser 