last evening, wallace and i had an exceptional time together. not that we don't enjoy one another usually, but this was an evening i wanted to hold onto longer than it was lasting. i was grasping at the ghosts of moments, but finding nothing to hold onto. but, if i write it down now, i will remember better than i would just setting it on a special shelf in my mind, destined for dust and likely to fade...
i had to go out and run errands after wallace got home from work (oh the joys of having only one vehicle...) and i actually didn't leave as soon as he got home. so, things were pushed back considerably, until i actually got up and went. wallace and savannah had some good quality time together, and i got to run around doing this and that, constantly wishing i had some great music i could turn up really loud and enjoy while driving around.
i spent more time than i thought i would at the grocery store, and picked up some hideous horrible food from macdonald's for dinner. and finally made my way home, admiring the bright full moon in the sky, thinking of friends, and future plans and enjoying the cool autumn air against my face.
i gave savannah her bath, and wallace and i got her ready for bed. then we settled down with our bags of yucky fast food, and we watched memento. and, it was certainly as good, if not better than everyone has told me that it was.
wallace quietly mentioned, maybe halfway through the movie, that he wanted to buy this one. he mentioned this quietly, because he had been instructed by me not to chat it up during the movie. and, he graciously honored my request.
i've come to be quite the movie buff since meeting wallace. he has shared with me his knowledge, and i've come to share his love of movies. it suprises me sometimes, as he seems to have rubbed off on me more than i'd like to admit in this area. but, it is something we've come to share together, and i'm glad for that. i don't thank him enough, i think.
and, even though we agreed to disagree about some of the finer points of the film, we had a great time discussing it. and we both loved it.
this discussion took us into the dark and quiet hours late into the night. and we were still talking when we finally did climb into bed together.
before we both fell asleep, he was talking to me about a project that he was going to be working on today. his job is certainly not what he had hoped for, but will be okay for now. he does a lot of small business websites, because his firm is a preferred agent for earthlink. they are not precisely what he had hoped to fill his portfolio with, but they pay him a little for now.
he is working on a shopping cart for this particular company, which is apparently some sort of adult-oriented site, including toys that is located in west hyattsville, maryland. amusingly enough, i used to live very close to this, when i was at the university of maryland. (gods, i do miss living there... but, that is another story for another day.)
as he was telling me about the site, he was chuckling and telling me how one of the shopping cart catagories is dongs and dildoes, which precipitated a lot of giggling and silly innuendo. jokes about paying for the site in trade, rather than cash.
wallace had recently gotten a $50 gift certificate for canoe, for the work he has been doing on the new zoo atlanta site. we then wondered if they might be handing out mechandise as bonuses from this particular establishment.
we giggled and joked and held each other, until we fell asleep.
it was wonderful ...