String Anniversary

I don’t think it really is, but one year is paper I think, so what’s one month? That’s what we went by last Tuesday.

Married life is good, if challenging at times as we’re stretched and shaped. You know, finding out more intimately how we each react (or sometimes in my case don’t react) to different situations. Better communication of my emotions could probably be improved to help Kate out.

If my personality doesn’t change, I’ll just have to verbalise. At the moment when I think I need to say how I’m feeling, it comes out stilted, Lurch-like.

I am pleased.

I’m not annoyed.

That’s an important one.

And I am quite pleased with our most recent purchase. I find it more than worth the cost, a good bargain! We went to IKEA to get the $249 2-seater couch we had chosen a while ago, but on the way out stopped in the ‘bargain bin’ to see what was there. Instead of purchasing the one we had planned, we saw a different couch, 3-seater, marked down because of dirt marks (minimal) which will never be seen once the separately purchased new cover is put on. So, this couch we bought for $239, marked down from $800. Sweet. Paid $80 to get it delivered and it arrived today. Kate had no idea how I felt so, in her words, was being “extra enthusiastic to try and elicit a response”.

I am happy.