weekend in the city

do you open or close w/the funny story?

let's open.

preface: for those of you who don't know, josh and i LOVE america's funniest home videos. a couple years ago, one of the videos that won was a wife who locked her husband out of the house and made him dance before she'd let him in. naturally, josh and i began employing a similar game...only ours involves our vehicles and very public places.

story: today, josh and i sat in chile's eatin and watchin sunday football. we had a swell time. on the way out to the pickup, we started horsin' around, and i dropped his keys. for fear of him takin them and lockin me out of the pickup until i danced, i half-heartedly tried to give the keys a boot...but to no avail. josh grabbed the keys, and there i was in the all-too-familiar place of havin to do a jig before bein granted access to the pickup. we laughed like we always do. he turned up the music like he always does. i refused to dance like i always do. and then the unexpected - he went too far. he insisted that i stand in the bed of the pickup and do the jig...rather than quietly there b/w our pickup and the one parked next to us. what?!?! no way. for the first time in our game, i begged. i pleaded. (and not for the first time) i laughed hysterically. surely he'd let me off! surely, if i just laughed long enough, looked desperate enough, he'd be filled w/mercy and unlock the door. - no. - insistent. so right off a major highway in austin, in front of a full lunch-rushed restaurant, in the middle of a crowded parkin lot, i'm dancin in the back of a pickup.

he's so proud of himself, as yall can imagine. but the story will not end here. no, my friends, this is only the beginning . . .

needless to say, josh and i had a wonderful time this weekend. an old friend of mine from high school picked me up at the airport, and we had the chance to catch up for a bit while josh made the driven trek into the city. the rest of the weekend, we went to a few stores...ate some good food...went to the texas state history museum on ut's campus...watched a movie...and thoroughly enjoyed simply bein near each other.

i usually have an agenda of some sort. a to-do list...even if it's only of "fun" things. but by saturday mornin, i realized i had no such agenda to stick to or plan to follow or schedule to meet or list to complete....all i wanted to do was to be as close to josh as i could be for as long as i could be.

i'm no expert on most of what josh likes, namely firearms. i'm hardly acquainted w/them really. but this mist of longing fell on me this weekend . . . we spent the better part of saturday mornin at this huge gun store, and it was such peace for me to simply be w/him... the remainder of our time together was much the same. we just piddled around and drank deeply of the time we had together.

he'll get to come home for a few days over christmas...i can hardly wait.