Northport, Alabama

Moments like these make life worth living.

This picture is nothing, a snapshot really, but it holds the two faces I love the best — Nicholas and Boogie. This is a common sight on Saturday and Sunday afternoons around here. Usually you can find me lying beside them, arm draped over them both, with a few extra furry bodies sprinkled liberally around the bed.

Nicholas was in Atlanta last night and I missed him more than I thought I would. I had been looking forward to having a single girl/bachelor kind of night with pizza, green apple Smirnoff, maybe a movie or two. It didn’t really work out that way though. I don’t do so well at night, and me alone on a stormy night doesn’t work at all.

After 10 years of couplehood, nothing really seems right when Nicholas is gone. It’s like having a lobotomy. I could live without him. But I wouldn’t want to.

Tonight, he and Boogie are curled up in bed again and I will be by their sides shortly. With any luck, I will sleep through the night. Tomorrow is a new day. The start to a whole new life. I have plans. A vision. A few dreams.

I have everything a girl could want.

It’s time to start chasing happiness and kicking in the gates of Hell so that I can enjoy it. I’ve lived through the impossible. The unthinkable. Anything else should be a piece of cake.

Music: Beatles Mix: Ticket to Ride, Day Tripper, I Feel Fine, Eight Days a Week, Help!, Love Me Do, From Me to You, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, A Hard Day’s Night, The Ballad of John and Yoko, Revolution, Don’t Let Me Down.

Pic of the day: “Still On the Fence” by Ocean at Tidal-Pool-Reflections and “Toad in Our Garden” by Noah at Grey Expectations.

Posted on August 7, 2005 by Carmen K. Sisson tagged Alabama, cats, Northport, personal, writing