Chapter 27, paragraph 1

Good bye 2009
This past year has been interesting to say the least. Courtney and Jay Day got married, Billy and Michelle and Ashley and K-ris got engaged, Kevin and I moved in together and I financed a car for the first time in my life. We went toobing in the summer, I visited Mississippi to meet Kevin’s extended family, we took a mini vacation to Austin and Johnson City to see a dead president and we booked it to New Orleans to hang out with Fredo the day after Christmas. I found a job with Honda Finance and now work on the weekends as well at a local aquarium shop and Kevin has found many jobs after being without work for a few months and now has one permanent position at a baby store.We picked out bedding together and he hung all the shelves in our apartment, I do his laundry and he cooks me dinner… I have become more domestic than I ever imagined possible.

It is strange, attempting to sum up the last year of my life because now I feel that I have this need to include an entire other life as well. I suppose the best summery that I can honestly give for the last year is that in 2009 “I” finally and whole heartedly became a “we”.The dog is no longer my dog, he is our dog, I can’t plan a trip without confirming his work schedule as well, we celebrated double the holidays to make sure we could see all of both of our families. He brings me lunch to work and I drove all the way out to Plano when he forgot his phone to find out what he wanted to get his brother for Christmas. I went shopping for his family’s Christmas presents. We took a trip with my sister and her husband; we invited both of our mother’s to our New Years Eve celebration. My niece and nephews ask where he is if he can’t make it to Sunday dinner… he went to our family reunion.

In the year 2009 while I was 26 and the first year after moving back to Texas I discovered what Love is. What it really is, love beyond the passion and the fantasy, love that is comfortable and exciting, love that grows rather than dims, love that encompasses every part of my day, every particle of myself, every aspect of my life. I found the kind of love that you don’t want to get away from even for a second, the kind of love that is not exhausting or dramatic, the kind of love I can’t imagine living without. I found the kind of love I did not realize existed before this year.

In 2009 I found Kevin and he taught me love.