sweetness

spacemonkey and citygirrrl celebrated their first anniversary this month!  what a difference a year makes...

by september last year, i had been largely single for a very long time indeed.  certainly, i hadn't been in anything remotely approximating to a serious relationship since the late nineties.  after a few disastrous dating experiences (well, I thought they were disastrous.  everyone else seemed to think they were pant-pissingly hilarious...) i had finally reached a place where i was happy to be on my own; occupied with friends, family and hobbies, and focussed on my career.  perhaps reaching this level of confidence in myself is the reason why everything changed.

because then, i met spacemonkey.

i'd always been kind of puzzled as to why i was never able to settle down, when all of my friends had done so; why i never felt a connection to anyone special, why i never found someone to love... and now the answer is clear: it's because all that time, i had a spacemonkey somewhere - waiting to find me, waiting for me to find him.

to celebrate making it though a whole year of surviving my constant blathering, OCD, propensity to nag and generally being a bit mental, spacemonkey arranged a surprise weekend treat for us.

we had a long bike ride to york, and an afternoon ambling around in the sunshine, and then we stayed at the quebec hotel - very fanceh - in the 'sherbet suite' (geddit!!??).  i was then spoiled even further with a romantic roof-top dinner at harvey nichs.  to add to the excitement, we rounded off the celebrations by signing all the paperwork on our new house.

so this, really, is the reason i'm so contented.  not because of the surprise trips, and the spoiling rotten; not because he contacted every jeweller in the country in order to track down a replacement for my lost bangle - nor because he made a difficult and unnecessary trip to london in order to leave it on my pillow.  not because he's taught me to ice-skate, and ride pillion, and eat my greens (sometimes...).  not because he found us a beautiful home.  but because he loves me, enough to live with me and my wacky ways.  and because my life would not be complete without him.