It's been one year...

A year ago* I sat in a pub with Julie for the first time, my arm lying on her leg, her hand playing with my fingers, feeling nervous and excited and happy and trying to ignore the group of my friends who had coincidentally wandered into the same pub half an hour earlier and were now at the other end of it, grinning manically in our direction.

It's been a long, strange, stressed, fun, sad, exciting, happy year - with some horrible lows and some incredible highs, and every moment of it has been worth it, because we've done it all together. At the end of it there's the two of us, lying in bed, typing posts together on our laptops, talking about getting up in a minute and going to Sainsburies to get the makings of breakfast.

To some people this might sound mundane (and geeky) - but of the many things I love about Julie, the greatest is probably how similar our approach to life is, how compatible we are, how effortless things are between us. Things have been so smooth, at times, that I've worried that life cannot possibly be this easy, and that at any moment things will come crashing down to teach me a lesson.

But mostly** it is that easy - life does work, we are that happy. Eventually, I am sure, I will stop worrying about being too happy and just enjoy it :->

We're going to spend a nice quiet day together, and then go for a nice romantic meal tonight.

It sounds simple.

And peaceful.

And perfect.



*Well, a year ago tonight, but I'm not waiting 8 hours to post this.
**Nobody's perfect all the time - frankly I can be a right pain in the arse to be around when I'm tired, stressed and grumpy.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-15-2008

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• Nobody puts Rebecca Willis in a corner.
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