Tuesday, May 9, 2006...10:16 am
Good Surprises
It was a day full of good surprises for me.
My husband didn’t wake me up before he left for work, but I smelled his cologne on me when I woke up at around nine o’clock. I got up quickly because I had to go the bank for my bank certificates and statements. When I walked into the kitchen to make myself a quick snack before going (probably a bar of chocolate..or anything sweet..) I saw a covered plate on the table. He made me omellete and rice! (the previous night we were talking about food cravings and I mentioned this but didn’t really ask for it..) My nee made me breakfast! What a good morning it was indeed. I didn’t know whether to eat it or to thank him first, so I kind of did a bit of both. I thanked him between mouthfuls. The omelette was so good. It had tomatoes, onions, cheese, and bellpeppers. (mmmmmmmm..) and so I went to the bank happy. I didn’t even mind waiting so long for my turn. I was just too happy to care. When I got home I lazily started preparing monggo soup. By late afternoon I had only one ingredient left to add (the chili leaves..). My nee and I were talking over yahoo messenger and he was telling me that he had overtime work and will probably be home late. Maybe eight o’clock or so. I thought..hmmm,, late dinner tonight, I guess. We talked about a couple of other things and then he logged out. I thought he got very busy, and then I started cleaning up the kitchen. A few minutes later, he called me over the cellphone to ask me if I still wanted that strawberry ice cream I mentioned last night. (wow! this guy is seriously trying to make me very happy..hehe..) Of course I wanted the ice cream. Why not? I said I’d see him at eight. And that was that, I thought. And yet, a couple of minutes later, I heard the lock clicking open. He just walked right into our home. My nee was home early! (with my ice cream no less!hahaha) He says to me, he just had to go home. And would I watch a home movie with him before dinner. (would I!) So we did, and after dinner we had a shower and watched yet another one before finally going to bed.
It was a very happy day for me. It felt so good to be remembered. I can’t believe he paid attention to the food cravings conversation we had the night before. I got a headache that night before going to bed, but even that was unable to bring me down. I was walking in the clouds. I truly felt wonderful. He remembered, was all I could think of.
When I was younger I never thought that I would want things like this. That the sweet little things would make me gush like my classmates then. I feel like a kid right now, but it doesn’t feel wrong at all. I like days like this. It will tide us over when things turn ugly.
Maybe the post title should be omelette and strawberry ice cream..hmm..I’ll think about it.
We’re not always like this. WE do get into arguments and crap. But the times that we get something like this convinces me that we are worth all the crap that we survived. (and will probably have to go through in the years to come..) I don’t deny the fact that things can go bad, but right now, we’re walking in the sunshine. And I plan to enjoy every moment of it.
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