October..

ok so these last couple of months I have not posted much....trust me folks it is not for a lack of things to say (she will tell you I never shut up...and she is right) so no excuses but think 2019 we will sum a few of the months up and move on from here......

Octobers was a good month... hard in some ways but over all it had so much growth for us as a couple and what are "normal" would be.

We went to lunch virtually every day by then...just getting away from work and chatting, laughing...and yes a few beers. There have been some pretty deep conversations over lunch and a whole lot of learning about each other and our pasts...and where we wanted to go together.

The evening we spent on the front porch. Drinking a few beers and an amazing amount of laughing. There have been more than a few tears shed from laughing so hard...and maybe a beer coming out of the nose....queue her eye roll here. We got to know some of the neighborhood dogs and have become that couple to chat with a bit while sitting out there.

I have smoked cigarettes at this point for about 20 years. She switched to Vaping about two year prior and I always gave her chit about it when we were outside together....well one day I decided to say you know I could give vaping a go as she had let me take a vape or two and the flavor was amazing. She let me borrow one of her mods (vape devise) on a Friday, I had one cigarette that Saturday and have not had one since...in fact gave two and a half packs to a guy at work......so yeah I will be eating crow for awhile on that one.

We started going out to some restaurants on Saturday for lunch (not every Saturday but enough) that she had never had the cuisine before (i.e. Indian, Thai, Cuban). So far she has enjoyed all of them, and made the comment early on that she feels like she has lived under a rock....that was until she learned that I had never tried things like Pickles, or olives...and a few others so I started trying those as well...and damned wouldn't you know it...she is once again correct..and we are once again on the same page.....

This is also the month we really learned that we did not like the weekends near as much. The weekends right now are the time we dont get to normally see or even communicate as much.... Hard when she is monitored/he is around type of thing....so we look forward to Mondays and Sundays really stink............