I'm not typically one of those people who flamboyantly celebrates "mini-versaries" of things... especially relationships. I'm not the "Happy 8 weeks and 3 days of being a facebook couple!" type [and I'm still not]. But this is my exception. [This might not be coming out so well because I'm also fighting a migraine at the moment and words are a bit jumbly in my head] 6 months ago--ironically (or algorithmically) also on a Friday the 13th while we were watching a horror film, Nathan 'asked' me to be his girlfriend... again... 20-some years after he didn't even ask the first time, just assumed I was (but I definitely was)... he didn't even technically ask this time either... just kind of put that we were "in a relationship"...so I guess we've been dating this whole time after all. 😛 Long distance isn't inherently easy. But we make it work. 6 months into all of this and he's been with me through more than some couples are faced with even years into their relationship. I'm writing this from the inside of a hospital room on quite arguably the most isolated floor in the entire hospital (air-lock entrance/exit, scrubbing in, mandatory mask/glove wearing, no eating/drinking, etc) and he has been with me through the whole transplant process. From the unnerving initial wait to find out if I was a match for my Mom to all of the health evaluations, exams, timelines, he's been there. And patient with me--even staying on video calls with me through the night while I'm here-- just to make sure I'm okay. I just... I feel so much better with him around...calmer... regardless of if we're falling asleep together watching a movie from 800 miles away, laughing at one of our shows, critiquing each other's cooking methods, making jokes, or whatever other silly shenanigans we get ourselves into... and I have never felt so loved. I don't have the greatest history of making exceptional choices, but 6 months ago I made the best one ever. ❤ Happy halfi-dating-versary, Charming. You're my person. [Don't get used to it though... after this it's just the yearly ones. Hahaha]
Kaleidoscopic Grace 