January
After a long friendship, SoundGuy and I had an official date one year ago tonight. Both being nervous about the potential to ruin a perfectly good friendship with the mushy love stuff, we decided to give dating a six-week trial period. If we liked it, great! If not, we'd call "game off" and attempt to revert to friendship. How practical. How pragmatic. How fateful! We shared our decision with a few close friends, but decided to keep things on the down-low for the general public. And especially for the church ladies (who we love very much, and who probably deserve their own post one of these days. Ack! - that was another disclaimer!)February
By mid-February we'd come to the end of our trial period. Throwing caution to the wind we went public and, on a choir tour to Washington D.C., we held hands in front of the church ladies! Gasp! Talk about mushy love stuff. We're pictured above in the National Gallery of Art.March
By March we took a big risk: our first road trip. We drove to Montana for a stress-filled week of family drama. And we lived to tell about it. I snapped this shot of the dashboard somewhere along I-84. It's kind of a SoundGuy still life: the cross, Helmut Reilling, and a cinnamon dolce mocha. Just the important stuff.April
SoundGuy's birthday is in April, and I bought him a big-boy bow-tie (a very practical gift for your average musician). After about 37 views of the instructions on YouTube we got it tied. Mostly.May
In May, SoundGuy got to take his big-boy bow-tie out for a spin when our choir performed at the Mt. Angel abbey. It was approximately a million degrees in the abbey church that weekend. That probably accounts for how shiny everyone looks in this photo.June
We cooled right off in June, traveling to Alaska to help Pop celebrate his 60th birthday. When I watched my dad relinquish his truck keys to SoundGuy I knew this guy was something different. He drove the truck and 5th-wheel all afternoon with the "playing it cool on the oustide but giddy like a school girl on the inside" expression on his face. I guess that's a whole different kind of mushy love stuff that I don't understand. July
Fresh off the Bach Festival (and his subsequent Helmut Reiling fix), SoundGuy joined me on Mt. Hood to do the music for the wedding of our friends, Jill & Mark. This required him to schlep a whole lot of sound equipment, learn some crazy piano parts to the music I'd chosen, play a little guitar, DJ the reception, and then schlep a whole lot of sound equipment again. He's like a roving minstrel for the new millenium - volkswagen, guitar, speaker stand, linen pants...August
In August, SoundGuy packed his bags and headed for Seminary. And I proceeded to do a fair amount of pouting.
I didn't lay my eyes on SoundGuy once during September. Not one time. This is what he really looked like. Hello Moto.October
I made my first trip to "the cities" in October. Apparently it's incredibly uncool to refer to them as Minneapolis and/or St. Paul. So we're calling them "the cities" now. I would hate to be uncool. Especially when I run around with a guy wearing a fedora.November
SoundGuy came home for Thanksgiving. Yay! We spent the holiday with his family at the coast. I'm not gonna lie to you - there was some hand-holding. I'm laying the mushy love stuff on thick now.December
December marked our first Christmas together and we managed to avoid most of the Clark W. Grizwold atrocities that plague so many holiday celebrations. Can't beat that!And here it is - one full year. A wise woman once told me that you should see your mate through all the seasons to really begin to know them, and I think she was right. While SoundGuy and I have only scratched the surface, what comes glinting through is a bright future. So big smooches and lots of mushy love stuff to my favorite person on a special day. I really like holding your hand.
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Happy anniversary you guys!!! And for the record - I whole heartidly approve the the hand holding... :)
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