Dan and Shelley

The children were at Michele’s when I arrived Friday night.  I made pretty good time from Columbus partly because I worked at the South office that day and partly because I don’t drive slow.  The intent was to get a few beers and relax that night however I didn’t want to stop and just wanted to be back with my Shelley so we passed on the beers.  When I got there, Shelley  greeted me as usual and since neither of us were hungry, we spent a while simply being in each other’s arms.  Finally, we ate some dinner and went to bed.

When the alarm sounded Saturday morning around noon, neither of us wanted to get up.  We laid in bed for a while before finally realizing that a full hour had passed and that we were running late.  We quickly showered, dressed, and headed out.  Shannon was in a wedding and needed her hair done among other things.  I don’t really understand this process, Nicky and I simply played with his cars for a while.  After things were all done, and everyone was ready, Shelley and I departed with Nicky for the “man store” (Home Depot) and Burger King.  Since he is finally potty trained, this was his reward.  After getting a table from Shelley’s grandmother, we went home only to have to make a trip to WalMart for some drain unclogger….the shower was plugged.  The trip was for nothing though, as it did not work.  After getting home, we got Nicky ready for bed and he was asleep straight away.  Shannon called around 22:30 and wanted to come home.  She was done at the wedding so Shelley went and got her while I moved Nicky and made sure everything else was in order.  When Shannon got home, she went to bed rather quickly.  Shelley and I were fairly quick to follow being very tired ourselves.

As is usual, Nicky woke us up more than once throughout the night before Shelley took him back to his bed.  Finally he fell asleep with us for a while.  When he finally got up, Shelley got up as well and let me sleep for a bit longer.  Since the shower/bathtub was still clogged, when I got up I did not take a shower either.  After getting dressed Shelley started laundry.  I ended up running to the store for a pipe snake and money order for the apartment we are going to move into.  After and hour or so with the pipe snake, however, we were not able to break the clog loose.  We ate breakfast (or really lunch at this point) then Shannon went outside.  Nicky ended up laying down for a nap while Shelley and I worked on the drain.  Finally, the solution presented itself, in the form of a butter container lid.  After making a small hole in it, and driving the screw for the overflow though it, we created enough of a seal to plunge the clog through.  We got it running again then ran the drain unclogger down it again just to make sure it was gone.  According to Shelley, it has never flowed this well since she moved it.  After our fun with the clog, Shelley and I both took a Shower and woke Nicky up so that he wouldn’t sleep too long.  After a very good dinner of some sort of chicken casserole I won’t even try to pronounce, which was very good, I had to had back to Columbus.  Our parting was long, as it always is, but not sad.  I think the knowledge of the fact that less that 3 weeks separate out move in and our living together.  As always my Shelley, I love you more than words and always will.