A post that has nothing to do with work or my puppy!

Well, BME and I have finally hit the two-year mark. Yesterday, to be precise.

*LOUD CHEERS AND APPLAUSE*

We celebrated very quietly and happily this weekend, despite me having to work. Thankfully he's out of school for the summer, and while he won't be living here in Austin during the break he's at least making the effort to visit. So Saturday evening I took him out to Red Lobster (I had a gift card) and then we drove up to Lake Travis to hang out at Carlos and Charlies. There was a little bit of dancing - thankfully I'm friends with the WAGs of the band, so we can go out and shake our butts in girly-80's-rock-imitation splendor even if the guys won't join in. (There's a lot of 80's music played by the house band, and it rocks.)

Sunday evening, after a pre-work nap, BME and I made a box of Macaroni Grill's Creamy Basil Parmesean Chicken and Pasta (it is delicious, by the way), a batch of imitation (but very spot-on) Red Lobster biscuits from scratch, and a side of sweet corn for dinner. It was luscious. Of course then I had to come to work.

When I got home yesterday morning, I found a present and a vase full of lavender roses at the top of the stairs. It was beautiful. :-) [He gets a little freaked out by roses drying upside down, so I'm going to try and dry them somewhere inconspicuous...probably an empty bedroom.] I slept, BME got the grill lit up, and got to cooking. He made his own marinade (without a recipe, I think) and grilled fajita fixings while simultaneously making a pan of chocolate brownies and a bowl of queso. That's what I call multitasking. Delicious, delicious multitasking. We had dinner and then I took him out for a massage. A thoroughly fantastic evening.

This is what I want for the rest of my life. This, and a day shift job.

His family invited me along on their vacation this year, and I'm super-excited to go. We'll be trolling the Caribbean for a week (hopefully avoiding the oil spill) and being delightfully lazy. Thankfully his brother's girlfriend (also coming on the cruise) is quite awesome [we bonded a little over dress shopping :-)], so I've got someone my age(ish) to hang out with when the guys go off and join a poker tournament. (I have sworn a lifelong ban against poker, since nothing good ever comes out of me playing it - i.e. cheating/lying players and my car getting colossally smashed.)

...just don't screw it up, me.