Where's my sick bag? Ride getting bumpy!

[Livnlearn]

Since I didn't hear from H early this morning, I went ahead and phoned him to tell him about D being home and suggested he might want to come around at lunch time and prepare his signature (and almost only!) dish here, and see D, which he said OK to.

He arrived and got on with the cooking. I kept on at the computer. We had lunch. H was a little curt a couple of times, and had to dicipline D a couple of times, while I just sat back and watched. Ha ha, no more Livnlearn blowing a fuse over D, and H telling ME to keep it down!

Later D was watching a video and H was in the office with me. We were talking about what we owed each other - I bought the expensive Christmas gift for D which we agreed to go halves over, and he just paid a tax. I was jokingly knitpicking over the amount and H had a look of consternation on his face, and without thinking I just reached up and stroked his face briefly.

He looked so tired, and he told me he really needed a holiday. Said he intended to come down over Christams and not do any work at all (he is a freelance worker who gets work over the internet, and it arrives at all times of the day and over the holidays too!) I just nodded in agreement.

Then he was talkng about his personal work and saying that he had done hardly anything over the last two years. Then he asked rhetorically, "Livnlearn, why am I so lazy?"

This may not sound like much, but it is significant, because first, he called me by my name, and secondly he seemed to be taking some responsibility for himself, I wasn't the cause of ALL his woes and failures. I just kind of raised my eyebrows at him quizzically.

He let out that he had taken care of getting some kind of present(s) for me already. Wow, he hardly managed that when we were together!!!! I'll have to get my skates on and get him something nice too! And something from D to him, so he feels the warm glow of his family around him. I'll have to get cracking over making those Christmas puddings too! I will also clear away the stuff from his side of the office here at home, so he feels like he has some space to put his laptop when he comes down. He says he will bring it to keep in touch with his emails and stuff.

I didn't want to nag but I did want to know if he had made the appointment for his skin surgery yet, so I just asked him what date he had got, and as I thought, he hadn't done anything about it yet. He said, oh yes, I'll go make the appointment this afternoon.

He asked D a number of times for a hug, and she either was too interested in her video or said she couldn't because of her injury... I could see he was desperate, and I almost offered to be a stand in, but thought it might missfire, so kept my mouth shut and my hands to myself.

So he left eventually, after giving me a kiss on the cheek, again nearer the lips than the cheek proper. Small temperature check!

What do people think?

Livnlearn