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My wife and I got up this morning with excitement in our hearts and disappointment in our future... we remembered that we ran out of coffee yesterday and had decided against getting any more last night. Really, we ended up having to go to a function and then to a much needed, highly "romantic" trip to the grocery store (we call essentially all of our trips together "romantic" even if they're completely pedestrian). Then, since her arms have been bothering her substantially ever since doing a rather incredible job weeding the garden and because she wants me to get even more practice in case I ever become a bodyworker alongside her, I gave her back, shoulders, and arms quite a little massage before we commenced our new nightly ritual of putting our legs up the wall (a yoga pose) together just before bed.

Completely lost and half confused, I wandered out into the world this morning to get coffee. We're lucky in that we have pretty good, locally roasted coffee here courtesy of the Vienna Coffee Company, and they sell it at the local produce markets. I got two wonderful flavors and a couple dozen lovely cage-free farm-fresh eggs (for only a few dimes more per dozen than the totally cheap-o eggs at the grocery store) and came home, managing to break one of the eggs when I clumsily got into my car. Nice... but I wasn't all with it because it was early morning on a Saturday, and obviously, I had had no coffee. When I told the lady at the market why I was there, she even said, "well bless your heart; it's amazing you made it here." That is an interesting commentary on our society's dependence on those little beans, but that's neither here nor there.

When I came home, I cooked the eggs and helped my wife finish the cappuccino, my wife told me I have to post the story on this blog, so here it is. Soon, I intend to start putting some posts about what makes a good man a good man, besides this anecdotal evidence, what makes a man not a good man, where to find us, and how to treat us. For now, I'm enjoying telling the story of my day-to-day existence in which I go out of my way to make the entire home-life situation better for all of us instead of just for myself.