Two years

Yesterday J and I celebrated two years together. It feels like it's been 5 minutes and it also feels like it's been 10 years. The time we've been together has been so happy and filled with amazing fun new experiences that it has flown by, but I also feel so comfortable and happy with him and our life together that I can't remember what it feels like to not have him in my life.

Mondays are tricky for us (just like every weekday!) because I get up early and go to work while he is asleep and he has a super long day class, then heads back to campus right when I get off work for his night class. He usually gets home around 8, which is nice, because when he is working it is much later than that. Because we weren't going to be seeing each other during the day, I decided to pick out 12 small gifts and wrap them individually so he could open one each hour.

I labeled them all at 2 minutes past the hour for the 2 years we've spent together, and timed them to coincide with his day. So, for 10:02 am, when I knew he was getting ready for class, I gave him a new shirt. Then, at 4 pm when I knew he would need a little pick me up, I gave him his favorite black cherry soda. He got to open other little stuff throughout the day like m&ms, legos, golfish, etc. At 8 pm when he got home, I gave him a new pair of gym shorts and at 9 pm I gave him his very favorite specialty beer. He really liked having something to look forward to every hour, and it made a long, boring, standard, not-seeing-each-other day much better. 

I think my favorite was the gangam style shirt I got him (found on Etsy, of course!)

After he got home, we made tacos, drank champagne and sat around in our pjs. Perfect way to end the long day!

Champagne, J's sweet card for me, guacamole in the making

:)