In the spirit of hectic Wednesday mornings, clawed felines on speed, cats who eat ham sandwiches, traffic backed up over a mile, and punching in at 8:04 when I tried to be here by 7:50... I return reminiscently to the past weekend, which was unarguably one of my best ever. And so a rundown, and cheery thoughts to get me started working.
Thursday
- arriving home to find a letter slid under my door
- having a sweet cute show up at my door around 8pm for a half-hour break
- planning our weekend :)
Friday
- hearing about the "Dark Side of Oz" free tickets from the radio station
- driving through the East Side
- finding the wrong Washington St
- finding the right Washington St!
- searching for 13-story buildings
- "I found it! It says 'Rand Building' in big letters on the front!"
- signing in as Joe and Leslie G :)
- elevators!
- getting our free pass
- making dinner
- falling asleep during "Hook"
- really not wanting to say goodnight :)
Saturday
- running to the ghetto Tops to buy oatmeal for breakfast
- mmm, oatmeal for breakfast ;)
- trooping off to the art gallery (FREE) ;)
- actually seeing paintings by people I've heard of (Pollock, Rothko, Picasso, Degas... there were more) :)
- Napoleon on his horse (made from a barrel, complete with wheels!)
- going back to the car all wrapped up in Joe's jacket
- red lights :)
- the weird Chinese people in the SUV that followed us backwards
- walking like tourists who've never seen big buildings before
- stopping at the Basilica
- picking up "Back to the Future Part 2"
- turkey sandwiches and apples for lunch (we're healthy!) :)
- *highlight of my day* spending two hours just snuggling and listening to music
- falling asleep during the hockey game
Sunday
Joe made a list of highlights from Sunday (Bills Game Day!) and emailed it in a love letter Monday, I'll include it here in blue (with some extra comments added in by me). :)
- You unlocking your door before I was finished knocking.
- Your beautiful, braided hair.
- Your wonderful smile.
- "Pinky Pals" in church.
- Getting a booth and being excited about it. :-)
- An almost successful card castle.
- Two absolutely delicious dutch babies.
- You, looking for the "halo" in your own eyes.
- looking right on back into your eyes, love :)
- dancing in the car and getting "caught" doing it!
- The search for a place to park, and finally being successful.
- Bundling up for the cold.
- Holding hands all the way to the stadium.
- the random footballs flying around the parking lots
- measuring our shoe sizes against the football players'
- The blimp.
- The funnies.
- Running away from my boss.
- Smelling the food.
- The "limo tailgate."
- Hiding under the hoodies.
- Breaking out in a dance.
- "Nice cow!"
- Your endless stream of smiles.
- Your endless stream of kisses.
- Your endless stream of love and affection... (isn't he the cutest thing? *melts*)
- The game.
- The yelling.
- The first down guys. :-P
- Heated seats.
- Our dinner.
- Sparks of love.
- Hating Rob Johnson.
- Rob Johnson's heckler.
- noting that the absolute loudest the stadium got was 80,000 people screaming at Rob Johnson
- the roar after Rob Johnson got sacked :D
- 80,000 people doing the wave
- You "dancing" on the way out....easily the highlight of the evening for me. (Bet
you didn't know that....) :-) (awwww)
- Stopping for dessert.
- A few laughs over a really, really bad burger ad.
- Taking you home.
- Snuggling up.
- Tucking you in.
- Making you lunch.
- Kissing goodnight.
- Looking forward to tomorrow...

It should be added that I woke up on Monday morning with tears in my eyes realizing that the weekend was over (and pretty well broke down when I got Joe's email). We didn't do a ton of stuff... but just having the entire two days... no work, no chores, just us being together... was such a blessing. We don't get that every week (or even every month), so when we do we definitely make the very most of it. I think as things go we do an awesome job of making the most of ALL our time together, even when it's Joe stopping in for half an hour on his break, or me dropping by for five minutes while he's studying to drop off a bag lunch, or him working extra hard to make time to see me even on the days we plan not to get together. Time together is precious and we don't let it go to waste. :)
I love you Joe.
See you tonight. ;)