Kisses.
Wednesday, Tyler and I had officially been dating 1 year, 1 month and 2 days (he called me at 12:01 as I was typing about it). This in itself is not terribly remarkable, except for the fact that this relationship is now officially my longest ever. We're doing really, really well and I never knew I could really feel like this - it's baffling.
So, I've been meaning to chronicle our one year anniversary, for my memories and all, and now seems as a good a time as any.
On December 15th of last year, Tyler and I had our one year anniversary. It was hands-down the best date of my life. We started by having lunch together at the Mabuhay Oriental Store and Filipino Cuisine. I love the restuarant they have there! Kalbi steak = yum. Then we exchanged presents back at his apartment.
I got him this flipping awesome coffee grinder by Cuisinart. Tyler loves coffee hardcore, but he's been restricted to pre-ground coffee for a while. He can experiment with the 18 different coarsenesses to find different strengths of regular brew he likes and it will allow him to look into espresso and french press coffee in the future (um, yeah...I was kinda excited about the thing). I also got him a little basket of goodies to go with it, including organic fair-trade Kona from Ozark Natural foods (which was pretty darn delicious) and a wealth of treats from the other Oriental store.
Firstly, he got me flowers. This is important. These were a) the first flowers he's gotten me ever and b) the first flowers I have recieved that were not the standard Walmart-rose dozen (there's nothing inherantly wrong with roses from Walmart...but every time it was pretty much a last minute, in the checkout line and spotting the $9.99 special and realizing, "oh crap, it's Valentine's/her birthday/etc isn't it?"). Tyler put some thought into these flowers, he asked around to select a good florist shop, he picked out an arrangement then had the florist modify it to fit, he explained why flowers were in it to me ("I know carnations aren't your favorite, but I thought they worked with this (they did) and I really liked these flowers (stargazer lilies) and these (tigerlilies). I had them add more roses, because..."). I mean he remembered my flower taste for goodness sakes, the boy actually cares enough to listen. This is fairly astounding to me. He also got me an assortment of other gifts all wrapped in newspaper with hearts drawn in pink highlighter (best. wrapping. ever. I used trout wrapping paper for his...). I got two fancy yummy smelling candles, a jumbo pack of sculpey clay (because he figured I used a lot working on banquet decorations a few weeks beforehand), awesome clay working tools (he then proceeded to explain what they all did and why he liked them when he took a clay class), and the dvd of Curious George (we had been planning to see it together this summer, but things kept falling through for one reason or another).
After present time, we hungout a bit and got to making our picnic dinner, so that we could be out at Horseshoe bend in time to catch the sunset. We made "Tyler Special" sandwhiches. These consisted of gourmet wheat mini loaves, mayo, avocados, bacon, lettuce, sprouts and smoked gouda. Originally the recipe called for swiss, but he knew I didn't like that but smoked gouda was my total favorite (I can't get over that he remembers those things...). The avocado was a little too hard, but that suited me just fine since I don't really like the squishy texture of avocados (but had never told him before). We also packed apples and dipping caramel and cokes and this potato salad he loves. We made it out just in time to see the sunset (and a whole herd of deer!) and walked the shore of the lake where he taught me how to skip rocks and we spoted giant bird footprints (or, as I like to think, secret dinosaurs!).
Traffic was pretty horrendous when we finally left horseshoe bend, so we decided to catch our movie (Stranger than Fiction, which we had failed to see together several times) in Rogers because it was closer and has better theaters. It was a pretty good movie and I really enjoyed seeing it with him. We've only been out to the movies twice together...I guess we just tend to hangout or do other things instead.
When we got home, we made delicious cookies together and watched late night tv like David Letterman. We snuggled a lot and it was the bestest thing ever.
He really put a lot of planning into the day and made sure to make me feel special and important to him. It flat out meant so much to me. It was a wonderful "our day" and I'm just so plum happy to get to be with him.
So, I've been meaning to chronicle our one year anniversary, for my memories and all, and now seems as a good a time as any.
On December 15th of last year, Tyler and I had our one year anniversary. It was hands-down the best date of my life. We started by having lunch together at the Mabuhay Oriental Store and Filipino Cuisine. I love the restuarant they have there! Kalbi steak = yum. Then we exchanged presents back at his apartment.
I got him this flipping awesome coffee grinder by Cuisinart. Tyler loves coffee hardcore, but he's been restricted to pre-ground coffee for a while. He can experiment with the 18 different coarsenesses to find different strengths of regular brew he likes and it will allow him to look into espresso and french press coffee in the future (um, yeah...I was kinda excited about the thing). I also got him a little basket of goodies to go with it, including organic fair-trade Kona from Ozark Natural foods (which was pretty darn delicious) and a wealth of treats from the other Oriental store.
Firstly, he got me flowers. This is important. These were a) the first flowers he's gotten me ever and b) the first flowers I have recieved that were not the standard Walmart-rose dozen (there's nothing inherantly wrong with roses from Walmart...but every time it was pretty much a last minute, in the checkout line and spotting the $9.99 special and realizing, "oh crap, it's Valentine's/her birthday/etc isn't it?"). Tyler put some thought into these flowers, he asked around to select a good florist shop, he picked out an arrangement then had the florist modify it to fit, he explained why flowers were in it to me ("I know carnations aren't your favorite, but I thought they worked with this (they did) and I really liked these flowers (stargazer lilies) and these (tigerlilies). I had them add more roses, because..."). I mean he remembered my flower taste for goodness sakes, the boy actually cares enough to listen. This is fairly astounding to me. He also got me an assortment of other gifts all wrapped in newspaper with hearts drawn in pink highlighter (best. wrapping. ever. I used trout wrapping paper for his...). I got two fancy yummy smelling candles, a jumbo pack of sculpey clay (because he figured I used a lot working on banquet decorations a few weeks beforehand), awesome clay working tools (he then proceeded to explain what they all did and why he liked them when he took a clay class), and the dvd of Curious George (we had been planning to see it together this summer, but things kept falling through for one reason or another).
After present time, we hungout a bit and got to making our picnic dinner, so that we could be out at Horseshoe bend in time to catch the sunset. We made "Tyler Special" sandwhiches. These consisted of gourmet wheat mini loaves, mayo, avocados, bacon, lettuce, sprouts and smoked gouda. Originally the recipe called for swiss, but he knew I didn't like that but smoked gouda was my total favorite (I can't get over that he remembers those things...). The avocado was a little too hard, but that suited me just fine since I don't really like the squishy texture of avocados (but had never told him before). We also packed apples and dipping caramel and cokes and this potato salad he loves. We made it out just in time to see the sunset (and a whole herd of deer!) and walked the shore of the lake where he taught me how to skip rocks and we spoted giant bird footprints (or, as I like to think, secret dinosaurs!).
Traffic was pretty horrendous when we finally left horseshoe bend, so we decided to catch our movie (Stranger than Fiction, which we had failed to see together several times) in Rogers because it was closer and has better theaters. It was a pretty good movie and I really enjoyed seeing it with him. We've only been out to the movies twice together...I guess we just tend to hangout or do other things instead.
When we got home, we made delicious cookies together and watched late night tv like David Letterman. We snuggled a lot and it was the bestest thing ever.
He really put a lot of planning into the day and made sure to make me feel special and important to him. It flat out meant so much to me. It was a wonderful "our day" and I'm just so plum happy to get to be with him.