I am sitting in a hotel room in Milwaukee trying to draft a post for our adoption blog but I cannot seem to draw any connections between written language and emotion. I have been in a weird place lately and instead of writing for therapy I spend my days in paralysis. It is a strange and unexplainable place, hence my lack of discussion about it. Limbo seems inadequate yet appropriate. See my problem?
To distract myself from my writing or better put as lack there of, I decided to read the book I brought along, the invigorating Communist Manifesto. This great distraction strongly indicates the writing predicament I am feeling since I voluntarily chose Marxist philopshy over addressing emotion. I lost interest when I started thinking what Marx would blog about? When I accidently dropped the book in transition from the chair to couch, a piece of paper floated to the coffee table. It was clearly old and discolored and appeared to lack any writing until I turned it over and noticed that Mr. Jitters purchaced this book on October 23, 1994. I hold in my hands a dated reciept that corresponds directly with the date he must have printed inside the cover immediately after purchase. He is funny that way, always dating things and saving reciepts. All our family banking can be backdated in an excel file for years with corresponding reciepts. I tend to lack any sense of organization, but he loves me regardless. What is it that attracts you to your spouse, partner, significant other, or friend? Do you love the things you lack? The things you desire? Or the things that drive you absolutely mad at the same time?
October 24, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I love Mr. DD for being able to put up with me, and I don’t say that in jest. I am high-maintenance.
He can be the sweetest and most romantic when I least expect it, but never when I want him to be.
He is the hardest working person I know, but he never gets any of the projects done for me.
I love him without a doubt.
October 25, 2007 at 9:56 am
All three really.
I love that my DH is unflappable. It was was drew me to him because it’s a quality I lack, a quality I thought would be nice in a partner, and now it also drives me crazy at times, his endless ability for calm.
(PS I am having similar limbo / writer’s block issues. Funny thing about the adoption wait.)
October 26, 2007 at 9:33 am
Hope you enjoy Milwaukee. I am only 45 minutes from downtown. Someday we will need to do a gathering here in the area.
I currently can’t stand my husband but I think it is just hormones talking, I hope?
Good luck getting over the writer’s block.