Ahhhh, wish you were closer!!! Some great thrift stores and of course, the Dollar Tree! ha ha! Hoping you have a fun night out!

Good day...was a little bummed through the day, but some great meetings at work (is there such a thing?? or is the stress of M so bad that work meetings seem like a dream??) that really took my mind off things to a positive direction. I called H and sensed myself withdrawing when he asked ?s about my day. Then he opened about some really bad things in his day, and I snapped out of the withdrawal and really reached out and consoled him. He really appreciated it, lifted his spirits some. I guess one fear is that my hardest thing over the last few years was him getting so down about work, being angry, always talking about it....I became frustrated....he's better now, but I also don't want to give the message that I don't want to hear him vent at all. I hope that's not the case and he can tell the difference. At the end of the conversation, for the first time in forever, he said ILY on his own. I squealed in delight and he laughed and said "I do LU." Nice.

We're gonna go out tonight....believe it or not, it's our 14 th anniv of first meeting....I remembered...we're not going out for that, but more that he wanted to go out after a hard day. But nice to think of, since I thought of this day months ago, and had no idea where we would be, whether it would be a day of misery b/c we were apart, or togeher working things out. The latter seemed so impossible.

Miracles happen, slowly at times...