Long Time, No Post

So it's been a little while since I've put anything on here. That's basically because I was doing ridiculous training and playing assistant-host to a few "dignitaries" that came to visit from Beijing (who were the ones driving the training). Since I had to be out the door by 7 every morning and usually didn't get home until after 10 at night almost every day since last Tuesday, I had to set blogging aside for a week.

I said "almost every day" up there, though, and by that "almost" I reminded myself of some of the nice things I used to do for my wife more often before she was my wife. First, there are the messages. I used to call her and leave messages a lot just to leave her a message, meaning that I'd call during times I knew she wouldn't answer so that I could leave her something sweet to listen to later. I got to rekindle that. I also got the chance to leave her notes in the morning since I would be out the door on some of those days before she got out of bed. Finally, I was reminded of how incredibly special and valuable it is to her that I show her that she's very important to me even when other very important things are going on. The way I did that: coming home early a few nights, specifically forgoing the chance to go eat dinner with my out-of-town friends so that I could come home and do the same with my lady instead.

Today, I'm going to do another favor for her (now that my legs are working almost normally again): mowing -- hopefully for one of the last times of the year.