On June 25th, 2003, I made a commment in maladr1n‘s journal to a woman who soon came to be a huge part of my life. On June 23rd of 2004 I drove to Jacksonville to see her for the last time. Almost two years later she is, at this very moment, sitting in our home in St. Petersburg. I think it’s fairly safe to say that on the 24th of June in 2003 neither of us had any clue we would be in the place we are now.

This is one of the myriad thoughts in my head today as I start my Monday Lunchtime ramble. We were asked about our meeting last night at dinner with some of the cast and crew of Machinal. When the show was over we went over to the infamous lair of the Jedi Council, The Tampa Bay Brewing Company, and had several hours of good food and great conversation. It was a blast, and having netgoth next to me just made it better. I’m so grateful to have someone in my life who can so easily make herself comfortable around the huge myriad of people who I associate with (or, at the very least, so convincingly make herself seem comfortable that she fools even me). Someone who, after seeing a play that I’m in, can talk for the entire car ride home about it and have everything she says mirror almost exactly the words of the reviewers for all of our local newspapers. For that matter, someone who isn’t afraid to look at an aspect of a production I do and say “that didn’t work for me.” Someone who loves and appreciates my family, and has been there for them when times are tough. Someone who, at times, seems more attentive to the medical conditions of my son than I am. Someone who still rocks my world in the more private moments of our lives.

Someone who leaves me little notes in my lunchbox that I can leave on my desk and look at every once in a while.

Contentment is a wonderful thing.

One more week on Machinal and then it’s time for a well deserved rest. A nice, long, quiet stint at home. Weekends filled with gaming and home improvement where we don’t go anywhere. Maybe going to bed early because I don’t have to stay up late to spend time with K. Yeah. It’s going to be nice.

Of course, I do have some work coming down the pipe from my side jobs…but I’m still at home when I do that.

Ordered some new shirts today from Think Geek. Realized that most of my t-shirts were starting to look a bit on the worn side. I also got a Taxibot T-Shirt. Yeah, I might be inactive…but I’m still proud as hell of having been a member. Besides, I may be reactivating my account soon. I made the commitment to A. to pay for Warcraft on a monthly basis for him, but he doesn’t seem to be taking to the game. I figure if I was going to do it anyway, I’ll offer to reactivate my CoH account and let him use that if he wants to instead. I know he liked that game. That way he can play online if he wants and I can justify having my account active. We’ll see.

Back on the diet and exercise bandwagon, at least to an extent. Vegas should be an interesting challenge.

Lunch hour over! Back to work, boy!