Love is your husband driving you to different Starbucks when you’re craving sweets at that time of the month until you find the one with icing on their lemon pound cake.  All is right with the world now….

365 days ago I was working in cubicle land like the typical American.  My daily commute averaged 4 hours regardless of whether I drove or took the train.  I worked a typical 8 hour day beginning at 7am and “clocking out” at 4pm.  I always prefer to go in early because I like to start my day with nobody asking me questions when I’m too grouchy to be cooperative.  Original Diva is NOT a morning person.  Don’t talk to me before 9am.  That’s a standard rule for me….in person, via telephone, or email.  So those 2 hours in the morning give me time to warm up and get the day going productively.  I like leaving at 4pm because I feel like I’m getting an hour of my life back.  I know I’m really not….but leaving at 4 instead of 5 has always made me feel like I’m “cheating the system”.

Anyway….beginning in November I started spending A LOT of time with my husband.  There were days (probably 4 or 5 out of the entire week) where I would spend all day with him.  Since March I have spent EVERY SINGLE DAY with him.  I’m going to say that I have really been lucky to spend 1/3 of my honeymoon days with my husband.  This has been a hell of a time for us.  We have gotten to know each other in ways that newlyweds should NEVER get to know. LOL  When we first got married we barely saw each other.  We were living with each other every other weekend and then I moved to Chicago and we got up to every weekend.  I went from no time with him to all the time with him.  I’ll repeat myself…I’m lucky.  I’m currently back in the market for work and I’ve been thinking that I’m really going to miss him for those possible 12 hours a day that I’m gone.  12 hours a day at work plus 7 hours of work only leaves 5 hours of time together…assuming that we are home together at the same times.  That is only a quarter of the time we spend now.  THEN AGAIN…..time apart could be really good considering that there are days when he REALLY gets on my damn nerves.  How do couples get along with only 5 hours a day man.  You miss out on so much.

Then again….I keep telling Chele to live out her dream…..I need to do the same.  Then I can decide how much time I spend with his stank ass and when I want to.