Two's A Company

Life is great when you're single - you get to do everything that you want. Now that I found the person with whom I want to spend the rest of my life, I find that joy becomes doubled when shared with someone. Every time I experience something great and Ban is somewhere else, I always wish that he is with me.

Here are some things that we enjoy (doing) together:

1. Breakfast. The top item in our list is toast with cream cheese or butter and jam or peanut butter. He also likes kapeng barako (Thanks, Cong) and I love cold champorado.

2. Listening to the wind blowing through pine needles. It's such a pity I don't live in Bel Air anymore. The week we left, we were conspiring to uproot four trees to take with us to the city.

3. Housework. I know, chores suck but we love keeping house.

4. Observing or playing with our pets. There's Migo, my dog, Pags, the turtle, and our four gouramis and the janitor fish. We used to have a bunch of sillver and black-speckled silver mollys but they bellied up from the chlorine shock of water in the city. They became food for the turtle. (Rest in fish.)

5. Sleeping. Ivan and I always find that we sleep a lot better when we're next to each other.

6. Going to the market or supermarket. The market thing is still about to happen, but I look forward to it.

7. Eating out. So long as it involves food, count us in. We both love Amici, the restaurant in Don Bosco, and the adobo flakes sandwich with kesong puti in Cafe Bola. We intend to go Thai pretty soon.

8. Chess. We just bought a pretty glass chess set. I have never finished a chess game and I conceded in the middle of a match with him. I know all the rules but I have never heard of openings and whatnot until he told me that they exist. When I was about to fall asleep, Ivan placed his arms around me and said, " I love how you suck at chess." Le sigh. I can lose any day.

9. Word games. Most of the time, I win, even with a handicap. Tee hee. We both celebrate our differences. I think with the right side of my brain and he with the left.

10. Loafing about and falling asleep in the middle of watching movies. Ivan's supervisor asked him a few days ago if he'd like to render some overtime hours. Overtime hours pay quite well. He said no because he wants to spend quality time with moi.

To Ban: I'm so glad to have you in my life. I highly enjoy being with you. They said that when you marry, you have to marry for companionship and conversation. You're someone I'd like to be with forever because you're my happily ever after. I love you a lot.