do you know what today is...

it's our anniversary
FIVE YEAR anniversary to be exact! can you believe it? jes and i have been together for five years. and what a lovely five years it has been.

i can't really go into the details of what exactly happened five years ago, but i can tell you that it started with me leaving work early.

fast forward five years and jes is asleep on our little floor fort in the living room (so that emily could sleep on the "bed" with us without having to jump up on our big bed. the past two days we have taken turns sleeping in the back room with her, but tonight we wanted to sleep together) and i am up blogging.

the cats woke me up at 4am to get some food and i started thinking and that was that. i thought i could come in here and do a little blogging and then be back asleep in an hour. then horace realized that our next door neighbor's nuisance of a cat named bellyboy (though i call him "creamiscle") was outside the window. he went APESHIT, his tail puffed up as big as his body, i threw larry out of the room and closed the door, then ran back and pounded on the window until the little fucker went away. when i let larry back in the room horace tried to beat the crap out of him, so right now horace is having a "cool down" session alone in the bathroom. my heart has just gone back to normal beats (as opposed to the POUNDING it was doing just minutes ago) so i am not sure i will get back to sleep after all.

luckily i have a conclusion to write for my dissertation so its not like i have nothing to do to fill the time, you know?

so maybe later i will post five pictures of jes and me-one in each year of our relationship. isn't that a cute idea? i will need to get jes to help me with scanning the pics in b/c we didn't get a digital camera until three years ago when my nephew was born (my sister gave us their old one b/c they had to get a new fancy "we-have-a-kid-now" camera).

perhaps you are wondering what our day of love is going to look like. let me show you a rough draft of the agenda:

1. good morning niceties, green tea, and two pieces of fakin bacon each

2. donna goes and gets bagels (AND decaf COFFEE!) from terrace bagels while jes checks email

3. we partake in the deliciousness that is terrace bagels

4. jes studies some while i begin to prepare our anniversary dinner: homemade italian wedding soup

5. somewheres around 2:30 jes begins to prepare the TGIFridays spinach artichoke dip and the fake pigs in a blanket.i begin eating large green olives.

6. at 3:15pm we begin to watch the big game: Chicago Bears vs. Minnesota Vikings. GO BEARS!

7. we eat and drink until we are sick. maybe doze off on the aforementioned living room floor bed

8. when we are hungry, we have soup.

because this is a rough draft, i may have not included all activities in the day, but you get the general idea. food, football and more food. and lots of lovin.

ok my battery is about to run out and i think horace is ready to be released. i will try and post those pics later.

happy sunday, yall.