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Better Now Artboy and I talked on Thursday night. I told him how hurt I had been feeling by his actions, and he told me about some things that had been bugging him, and we both apologized and came up with a plan that should help resolve these issues. I felt so much better after our talk. We decided to try to go to the place that we met on Friday night to celebrate our anniversary after he got off from work...if he got off on time. He did, so we went. It was too late for dinner, but he had a drink and talked, and then went home, with the plan that we would return the next evening for dinner. Artboy had Saturday off, and we got up and cooked brunch together. We watched a couple shows that we'd saved on Tivo, and then I went and got ready. We had decided to go shopping--I still had a gift card to use at Pottery Barn that Artboy had given me two Christmases ago and Artboy wanted to buy some mattboard and a frame for a poster that he'd bought at the Big Head Todd concert. We went to the mall and bought a cheese slicer at William Sonoma and a shadow box to house our momentos from our DC trip at Pottery Barn. We went to Michaels and checked out some frames, and then went to dinner at our place. They had new glasses with their name on it, and we decided we wanted to buy a set of four. We asked our waitress if they sold the glasses, and she said that they did, but that she'd look the other way if we just took one or two. We thanked her, but told her we wanted to buy a set of 4 and explained that we'd had our first date here 3 years ago, and we come back each year for our anniversary, and that we wanted a set of glasses for home. She said she'd see what she could do and came back later with a bag of 4 wrapped glasses and told us they were on her. We told her we'd be happy to pay for them, that we didn't want to get her in trouble. She said she wanted to do this for us, and we thanked her. A little later, the manager came over and asked us how everything was. We told him everything was great, and he kind of looked over the table...like he was looking at the bag of glasses. When our waitress came back, Artboy told her that the manager had come over and it was like he was looking for the glasses and told her to charge us for them...that we didn't want to get her in trouble. She finally added the glasses to the bill. It was nice of her, but I didn't feel right just taking them. The manager came back and made a comment about our bag of "goodies." We just said, "Yup, we do." He was waiting by the door as we left too. After dinner, we went to this new home store in the shopping center and found some chargers that we liked...and I found this teapot that looked like the ones that PF Changs has that Artboy loves. I bought him the chargers and the teapot for our anniversary. Afterwards, we went home, and I gave him the other part of his anniversary gift...two little booklets that we are to fill out together...called "The Keys to My Heart." He seemed really pleased. He is treating us to a couples massage at a spa. After opening gifts, we watched Shop Girl, which we both really liked. I'd put that on my Netflix queue because I knew how much Artboy loves Steve Martin and I thought that would be a good movie for us to watch together...I was correct. It was a lovely day, and the first one in a long time where he actually paid attention to me. I told him before bed that it had been a wonderful day...and that I had missed spending quality time with him. He agreed that it had been a great day and apologized for taking me for granted. |