I am exhausted. Content, happy, and daydreaming of my sweet love and our incredible yesterday... but exhausted, not looking forward to the rest of the day, and really hoping Friday will hurry up and get here, for a lot of reasons. 1. Because Friday means tutoring is over. 2. Because Friday means the weekend is here. 3. Because Friday means I get to spend time with my Joe again (always a good thing!). 4. (And this goes along with #2...) Because Friday means the next day is Saturday, and Saturday means I can sleep in past 5:30 AND I get to spend the WHOLE day with my love. Friday will make today and tomorrow worth it. But unfortunately, I have to actually get through today and tomorrow before it will be Friday. I will make it. I might shoot myself in the foot though. :)

Yesterday was awesome. AWESOME. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day. The weather was sublime -- sunshine, warm, clear blue sky, light breeze. We packed ourselves a picnic supper and our book, grabbed a blanket, and headed down to the park to eat and read and just enjoy each other's company. We laid the blanket out under a pair of trees, where we had a great view of the lake, which had a couple of boats on it and was looking postcard-perfect with the sun hitting it just right as it got low in the sky. The grass and trees were green and when we sat down I couldn't help staring at Joe. He looked so good yesterday, he really did, looking over at me with those beautiful eyes, bright and smiling, the sun in his hair, the green grass all around behind him. I wish I could describe it. I wish I had a picture of him right then, but I guess I'll have to settle for the one in my mind. I could have looked at him for hours. Those eyes, man, those eyes do something to me sometimes. When he's in just the right frame of mind, feeling happy and good about everything, I can see it right there. I can see my whole world in his eyes sometimes. I could see it yesterday. I could see when he looked at me, that right then he didn't want to be anywhere other than right there, with me, looking into my eyes and savoring that moment just as much as I was. It was pure magic. It was one of those things that I hope I'll remember for the rest of my life... and all we did was sit down on a blanket, under a tree, on a summer evening, to have a sandwich.

After our little meal we pulled out our book and read a couple of chapters. We're reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone right now, because Joe's never read the books and they are my faves. We take turns... he reads a chapter, then I do, out loud. That is fun. :) It's something Adam and Becky do, every night they'll read a couple of chapters. I thought it was cute when Adam was first telling me but now I'm starting to see why they like it so much. I forgot how much fun it is to be read to. No one's read me a story in years, and I didn't realize I missed that. But it puts a different feel to it. You can hear the tones and inflections in a person's voice when they're reading. They can put the pauses and the emotions into the words that you just can't do in your head, no matter how good your imagination is. Yesterday when Joe was reading to me, I found myself giggling at different points in the story. I've read the book at least five times, probably more, and I've never laughed out loud at it -- there's something about HEARING it that really brings out her humor. :) I really like that. I hope I did as well when my turn came to read. I liked reading just as much as listening. :)

So last night was just awesome. It was our official three-month anniversary you know (yes, we just had our 'unofficial' four-month anniversary a week and a half ago... there happen to be two particular dates that really meant a lot to us). I couldn't have asked for a better day... even if I DID smash my toe on a rock down on the beach. ;) We ended the night by staying up too late, talking about our future and eating ice cream sundaes... and then this morning I got to wake up to that smile, which made the fact that I actually had to WAKE UP at 5:30 completely worth it... and I had company on my ride into work, and I swear that was the shortest my commute has ever been. And then there was that squirrely squirrel when I dropped Joe off. ;) The whole evening all the way up through this morning has been just awesome... and we didn't even do anything that spectacular or out-of-the-ordinary. It's finding the joy and the beauty in all those ordinary things that really makes life worth living. :)

*closes eyes*

*draws to mind that picture of her Joe from last night*

*is overwhelmed with love for him*

Happy anniversary darling. I couldn't love anything more.