Mmm, I can't wait to be a "Vixen," and "Big Knowledge Woman." Hee. I have a great time, though, watching Ruth plow ahead into the untried waters of posting level designations. "Volumey Text" gave me an attack of giggles when I first saw it.
Em, congratulations on becoming an auntie. That'sgreat news!
Kyraroc, here's to your day getting much, much better.
And Ruf, you're a whore. I love you. Congratulations to Ruth, by the by, on her new moderatey status. I look forward to being taken over her knee on many future occasions.
I'm just brimming over with the love today, can you tell? Yesterday, along with being, for me, a day for sadness and reflection, was also simultaneously rather a more happy occasion, being my six month anniversary with my Jer. It marked my longest ever relationship, which is kinda a big thing for me. She's the first person I've been with who I've wanted to settle down with. And last night she gave me a love poem she had written for me, that she's going to work into a painting she's doing for me... and yanno, I'm always the one doing things like that for the people I care for, and no one's ever really done anything like it for me because they loved me that much, and this is a really pitifully long run-on sentence, but I'm gushy now, and... yeah.
I'm in love. It's completely, mind-shatteringly amazing. So let me drone on a little longer about it.
Yesterday, my company gathered around the flagpole in front of our office building at 9:11 a.m. for a moment of silence. Before that, though, one of my coworkers read a piece he had written about what we've gone through as a nation and a culture in the past year. And it was really, really beautiful. I had no idea this guy could write like that. The thing he left us with as a closing thought was the importance of using our time on earth well, and letting the people we care for know that we love them. "There are people on this earth who have never heard those three words," he said, and I just ached, feeling how lucky I am that I've always been surrounded by love, that I have someone whom I adore to go home to every day. After the moment of silence we all started to file back into the office, and people who had worked together for years and years were hugging each other. My boss was hugging our receptionist, and telling her that she loved her. The former is from NYC, and has newsclippings of the aftermath of the attack up behind the front desk. I don't know if she lost anyone. I still don't know her very well, and I haven't wanted to ask. I've only worked there for just over two months, and while I really enjoy the company of the people I work with, I'm certainly not to "love 'em" status yet. But at that moment, I wished I was with someone I could wrap my arms around and feel loving and loved. I wanted my Jerri. Terribly. And I started to lose it, walking back to my desk, misting up.
And the second that I reached my desk, my phone rang. Guess who? My sweet girl. I started to lose it a little more, and she gave me a "No more tears until I'm there tend to them" type speech. She was calling to make sure I was okay. We talked for a little bit, but then I had to get off the phone suddenly as I was paged over the intercom. I had "a delivery" up front. So I walk up there, and she had sent me flowers, a beautiful, huge arrangement of roses and daisies, my favorite.
As soon as I saw them I completely and totally lost it, just sobbed, but it was that, "I'm really sad right now, but really, really happy, too" type sobbing. The card read, simply, "I love you. Jerri." But it was exactly what I'd needed at exactly that moment, the phone call mostly, and the addition of the thoughtful, loving gesture. Just kind of served as a reminder to me, as the universe from time to time sends, that everything happens in its own time, and that when we really, [i:137c8743ae] really[/i:137c8743ae] need something, the universe provides. And that my girlfriend is the sweetest woman in the world, with the best timing ever. Really, she has a gift.
After that I was still sad about everything that happened a year ago, and much that has happened since, but I felt really comforted, too.
So anyway... that was my story from yesterday. It was a hard day, but a really beautiful one, too.
by Elianna » Wed Sep 11, 2002 9:07 pm 
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Both very nice. But, I also love 'Willowhand' too. 
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And Ruth is a moderator, wow "be good little kittens or no candy for you" 