I forgot to preface the helmet picture... long story short I gave my H a helmet last year sometime as a gift. Turns out, apparently, motorcycle and racecar helmets are different (or the certification stamp is, anyway). I got the right certification year but bought the motorcycle one by accident. It's "legal" for the driving school but won't be once he's into actual racing, so he had to buy another helmet. When his new helmet arrived he talked about selling the "motorcycle" one, more money for racing... then he set them together on the table and said "Or maybe we should save it for track days - 'his and hers' helmets." We took the picture shortly after that comment.
ST - I think my cheeks look sooo silly in that picture!! But even that, I see a 180 in myself.. it's weird when you surprise YOURSELF with 180s. I realized "old me" would have been irritated or frustrated or thinking "this is so uncomfortable" or "I look icky, I'll never wear this helmet again!" Now? We had a great laugh about it, I even made a "fish face" for a bit, and we took pics together.
Michelle - thanks! Yes, my H is SO proud of the flowers (and I am, too, but it's neat that he cares so much). They're all blooming now and H keeps commenting how it just looks better as the days go by.
Dave - I sure hope so! It feels like progress, just sooo scary to trust it.
H is driving and I'm riding passenger. If you don't want to watch the whole thing, it's still worth checking out from 2:10 up to about 3:15 (minutes). Closest we've come to actually contacting another car... that one freaked me out a bit!
After that - H is driving an old Eagle Talon and is SO proud of being able to keep up with this practically brand new Evo... it's similar in that it's all wheel drive, but it's got a LOT more power than he does, so it says a lot about his driving skills that he keeps up with it.
Hope everyone's doing well and has a good holiday tomorrow, if you have the day off. (I do - woo hoo!!).
Me 35, H 38; Together 13.5 yrs, M 7 Bomb 1 10/07/06 Sep'd 1/14/07 - 4/15 Piecing: 4/07 - 9/07 Bomb 3 10/11/07: Never loved you, let's separate 2/08 slowly improving 7/08 Piecing (7/25/08 rings back on!!) Current thread
We took the picture shortly after that comment.