So Jules is corporate. She works as an executive for YUM corporation. She has had to deal with the "moguls" in trash and the amount of money they make, for the lousy job they do...irritates her...MORE than irritates her. She doesn't believe that recycling really happens the way it's supposed to...but I am committed to recycling. Totally committed. I collect, sort and DRIVE my recycling to a depository several miles away. Here in Chicago, this apartment building...there is no recycling. It has made me crazy and I have walked my recycling to a dumpster several blocks away. I repeat, I am committed. However, Jules is not.
So, when we are at her house in the city, I collect our recycling and bring it back to Waterloo. At first, she totally balked at me doing that. Today, she is in Las Vegas at a conference...but on her way to the airport, she recycled. For me. Do you understand what I am saying??? She recycled, without me there, for me. It made me cry. Shut up! It totally made me cry. I'm gonna marry this woman. Did I mention that she is beautiful? OMG - she takes my breath away.
Jules so wants to be loved, as do I...for who we are...but we are independant, stubborn, opinionated, and STRONG women...sometimes that's really hard to love...or maybe it's us allowing the love...
do you remember the song from Sound of Music...between Maria and Christopher? "I Must Have Done Something Good"? It's true. I must have done something good to deserve this fabulous woman's love. Ok - I get it - it's totally annoying to read someone else's gushiness...too damn bad. I love this woman...and the point? She is "able" for me. She is "big" enough...capable of handling me...my independant, stubborn, opinionated strength....and my love - or at least she is learning to. And so am I.
Damn - so this blog was supposed to be about my newest seminary experience. Guess you'll have to wait.
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