tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

I’m so excited – Aaron bought a set of golf clubs today!! And he got them wicked cheap too – they were on sale, they were the floor model so another 25% off that – freaking awesome deal!! I bought a new driver too, on sale and I get 25% off for completing a survey. Sweet.

I play with a set of men’s clubs which I like well enough for now, but I hate the driver. So I was convinced I was going to buy a women’s driver, since it would be the correct length and weight for me. But I hated all the women’s drivers I tried. Finally I tried a men’s driver and it was awesome! I have to choke up on it ever so slightly, but I’m ok with that. I can’t wait to go to the range again. We said we were going to take tomorrow off to rest and let my blisters heal, but now I’m not so sure I will be able to stay away!

I’m so excited to hit the course with Aaron now!!

I have an obsessive personality, this much we all know. I have weird OCD quirks which I’m not going to get into right now, save to say I took an online screening test and I should be seeing a therapist starting…..now.

At any rate, as shown by my previous post, when I get excited about something, I get really excited and have to do it now, now, NOW! And of course I never get instant gratification so I have to deal with the frustrations of practicing patience. (Thank God for Aaron who is oh-so-good at keeping me calm and rational – for the most part).

So anyway. I have this new friend, who is no longer invisible. I’ll call her Pixie, in honor of her new, amazingly cute but too short for her liking, haircut. (It really is adorable). Pixie is great. We’ve only hung out a few times so far, but it feels like we’ve known each other for years. (at least for me). For some reason I instantly trusted her enough to not censor my craziness and weirdness from her. It could have been the wine, but I don’t think so. She’s so fun, down to earth, honest, funny, smart, etc.

And I know she would get on so well with Amy! And probably Molly too but we live so far apart we rarely see each other. So I’m SO excited for them to meet! I want to get together with them right now!!! I wish MA was still here because, as I said to Amy on the phone on the way back from dinner with PixieStix (ooh I just made that one up right now!), she would fit right in with our group. A perfect addition! Well, we don’t really have a group any more since everyone has moved away, and it’s pretty much just me and Amy (and I guess Matt, he’s one of the girls) and occasionally Molly. But I really hope we can all get together and hang out soon – I predict loads of laughter and hilarity. And a few dirty jokes.

I have always been a gift giver. I love giving gifts. I am already planning Aaron’s birthday and Christmas gifts, which I shouldn’t do because as soon as I buy anything I want to give it to him right now. I swear, I am more impatient for him to open his gifts than he is.

I assume I get this from my mother, who is the most generous, open hearted person I know. If she ever became rich, she would instantly become poor since she would give everything away to people who needed it more than her. And she would be happy. (As would I, if I were one of those people!)

At any rate, it has always seemed to me that women have given more gifts ‘just because’ than men have. I have often gone shopping with girl friends and witnessed them buying things for their respective men ‘just because’. It’s rare that I’ve seen guys buying girls gifts ‘just because’.

This really is going somewhere.

I came home to Aaron sleeping on the couch with his cat, par for the course. Or at least trying to. He was not very chatty, as per usual, but he did manage to grill me on what kind of iPod I wanted, since my current iPod is dying and I requested a new one for my birthday.

Yes, my birthday is over 6 months away, but I like to put my wish lists out there now since I want to be surprised when my birthday does come around, and the theory is I will have forgotten about my list by December.

Anyway. We are going to head out to dinner, and he wants to stop by Best Buy first. Sure, I need to pick something up anyway.

He leads me straight to the mp3 player section. Yes, honey, I know what an iPod looks like, I have one….I know I want one. Why are we here?

He wants to buy me a new iPod.

Just because!!

And now I am spending my Friday night backing up my old, fidgety, failing iPod to my external hard drive so I can load up my shiny, new, 80GB Video iPod with my music. And downloading videos to watch at work! I mean….on the metro….

Ah yes, I knew I married the right man.

Aaron and I have matching lunch bags. (His is the red one). I have to zip his bag around the top since I put so much food in his bag. I eat less, so mine folds down and velcros shut in front.

The best part of making his lunch is the note I write him. I have recently moved on to stick figure drawings. He told me he saves them all too! I guess that will be for the scrapbook eventually….

Beer Can Chicken. Mmmmm!

I was so excited to come home today, as Aaron had told me that a huge package was delivered for me.

I get home and open it up, and it’s a belated wedding present – A CUISINART WINE CELLAR!

How freaking awesome is that?!? Thanks Doug and Elena!! The best thing is, the instructions say you must have 3 to 5 bottles in there at a time, so I guess I better go shopping!!

Well, I don’t have internet access at work. This means I will be heading out with my PDA to try and find a free hotspot within walking distance so I can check my email during the day. Although it is hard to write with the stylus so I imagine I won’t be very prolific. But at least I can surf a little too.

Hopefully I will be able to make do with that until August, when my ‘renew every two’ with those bloodsucking bastards Verizon is up, at which point I can buy a blackberry or something similar and get online from my office using that. I’m thinking about the Motorola Q actually.

I was going to rant about Verizon’s insane contracts, but I’m all ranted out right now. The bastards wore me down. Suffice to say, they suck. Another reason I can’t wait to move out of this area is because then I can switch carriers. Currently Verizon has the best service for where I live and work, so I’m sort of stuck with them. Bastards.

I guess it’s nice to be back at work, especially nice to get a paycheck. I did enjoy my time at home though. Being able to sleep in and snuggle with Aaron every morning was the absolute best. It’s a little fun figuring out what my new routines will be. There is a Seattle’s Best Coffee right down the street from my office which I am PSYCHED about.

On another topic, Aaron and I are currently reading a book called ‘The Extrovert and the Introvert in Love’, or something like that. It’s actually very fascinating. Aaron is a left brained introvert and I am a left brained extrovert. The book describes our personalities almost to a T. And we are the least likely combination of personalities to get along. Ha! It does offer some insight on how to deal with each other and understand why we each do things a certain way. I would recommend it for everyone in an extro-intro relationship.

Aaron and I went to the range again today. We split a jumbo bucket of balls. For now we are sharing my clubs (they are men’s) but I have a feeling we’ll be getting him his own set soon and I am so excited about that.

I love watching him get better and better every time we go out. He’s really athletic and picks things up so easily. I think he also likes the challenge of perfecting his swing. But I love hearing him hit the perfect shot.

But maybe the best thing, and one of the things I love most about him, is when I hit a good shot, and he gets the biggest smile on his face. He is so happy and excited for me, and seeing him smile at me like that lifts me up and lights me up inside. It’s rare for me to be around people who are so selflessly happy for me when I do something well. Or maybe it’s just rare to be shown it so openly.

That is one of the best feelings in the world, seeing him smile at me like that.

Yesterday was the two year anniversary of our first date, and the three month anniversary of our marriage. We didn’t celebrate either. Well, what we did do was relive some of the moments our of first date, when we knew we were falling for each other. That was really nice. Just remembering that time is all the celebration we really need.