That my best friend and I can do anything, or nothing, and have the best time....

August 31 is the beginning of the thirty fourth year of our relationship!!!  We officially got married on that date & include in our yearly celebration "our meeting" in February-- seven years prior to that. That is when we first met and fell madly in love!!!  You bet the stars were brilliant and the fire works went off!!! The lights went on in our hearts!!!

I will begin my celebration here on the blog with some comparisons of the happy couple:  Claes and Lue.  These  have been noted over the last few years-- did I say 34??

I will start with me as I know myself better..........Amongst many attributes I live in that playful right side of the brain that has been known to suggest it might be fun to just go ahead and not check for a good route to where I am going.  You know just take a risk and go with the idea.............adapting it as I go.   A lot like my cooking!!!!   HAHAA!!!!  It works for me and I have created some pretty magnificent meals if I do say so myself. I merely see my goal and find ways to achieve it even if they are not conventional or paved routes.

  Yes, my mind leaps and bounds in lateral jumps while Claes thinks in sequential steps, each of which is logically following  the next. I have no problem admitting that sometimes things go  wrong at some stage in order to achieve a right solution.  I know this drives Claes crazy!

A perfect case in point would be the lighting system we have in our front  yard  that I initially  put up one weekend when he  was away. (that was when we first got to Kye Bay way back in 2005.

• Did I consider that the packages of lights I bought were left over from Christmas, and that the reason they were on sale was they blinked?
• Did I have a plan for how I was going get power to all these lights in the most efficient manner?

 

No. Thoughts like this do not usually  have a place to reside in my brain. I had a goal, and, by golly I am going to achieve it one way or another. And I did..... the lights all worked, and did I add that they all blinked?

Yes, it is an electrical nightmare, especially when something goes wrong with one of the lines like it did yesterday, and Claes  had to somehow figure out how to locate and solve the problem. Lets follow the cord to the other end; maybe it has  come unplugged, I suggest.    Hmm yes Claes says, " but which cord, and how can I follow it when sections of it are buried under dirt and leaves, and there are two lines going in and three coming out? "   GRRRRRR! 

I  recognize the error as something I didn't plan on, but they do remind me of fairies touching down and then taking flight. My granddaughters Annika and Stella would love them!!!!

I am blessed in knowing  that my dear husband  embraces me as a person who arrives at the same solution from a different perspective--sometimes??? most of the times?  That is one  of the many reasons I love him so...now as we approach our anniversary and everyday as we live this life of ours,  our  lights are  on  shinning brightly for all to see.    Did   I mention that while pretty… they sometimes blink?

Maybe you need to think about your partner today and give her or him  freedom to be them??  Lue, always Claes' bride!!!!