Brian

By Trula • March 27th, 2007

We spent last Sunday, the first Sunday of Spring hanging out in the back yard, roasting veggie dogs (Mercury Man had meat-dogs!!) till it got dark:

Here I am, chilling. It was a beautiful day, really crisp still but the sun was warm and bright. I still needed a jacket!
i-bop ran in and out of the [...]

My husband graduated this past Sunday with a Master’s degree in Special Education! He actually finished his program back in August and got a pay raise at his teaching position, but I urged him to attend the graduation ceremony because he didn’t do it for his bachelor’s. It was such a big deal to me [...]

My husband is an avid biker, down to the real biking bike and the shorts and special shoes and all. I’ve been thinking about taking up jogging again and he suggested taking up distance biking with him instead. He said it wouldn’t hurt my knees and would tone my legs. I was hesitant. I’ve tried [...]

It’s ten minutes to the game (don’t ask me what game ‘cause I don’t know) and my Brian just raced off to the store to get me some sugar. I have been sick since Sunday and only been able to keep down tea. I was going to eat a little dinner because I am so [...]

There. I said it. I have publicly declared my husband a slob. It gets on my nerves. For many years our bedroom looked like a high school boy’s bedroom. Slowly over time he got rid of or boxed his teenage stuff. When we moved where we live now, our bedroom has a big walk-in closet [...]

I’ve ranted before about my mother-in-law. Well this blog is in appreciation of her. She loves her son very much and has bent over backwards to be nice to me even after we had nasty fights. She loves my kids unconditionally and has always treated my 2 older children just like my youngest, who is [...]

This pic is from 1997, our son Todd was a day old! I was 25 and my husband Brian 23. We were so young and full of pep. Now we go to bed at 10pm, sometimes 9pm, if we have to get up early in the morning ha ha ha. I feel so ambivalent [...]

toddbrian Originally uploaded by trulastar.
This is one of my favorite pics of my husband, Brian, and our little boy Todd. It cracks me up!!

I often feel impatient when listening to Brian talk. I tend to interrupt him. We both have a bad habit of interrupting each other and of finishing each other’s sentences. Yesterday we had a nice time talking, I made a conscious effort not to interrput him. I learned a very powerful lesson: I am not [...]

I love this song Higher Love by Steve Winwood. I love it! I remember it captured exactly how I was feeling before I got with my husband. and the feeling of exultation I felt when I realized that he was my higher love.
Think about it, there must be higher loveDown in the heart or hidden [...]

Jack LaLane Power Juicer
by Jack LaLane

Brian got me this for my birthday and I just love it. We have been juicing fools as of late! This thing is so cool, you can throw in whole pieces of fruit without peeling or cutting. It gets so much juice out, I am amazed. And you can use [...]

I need to smile at my husband more. Just smile at him and ask him how he is doing more often. I take him for granted so much. And I need to touch him more often, not be afraid to just touch him and hug him. I am not as affectinate with Brian as I [...]

My husband is lucky I think he is so cute. He is really getting on my nerves lately. But then he grins at me and his smile just melts my heart.

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I love the song ‘White Flag’ by Dido, it reminds me of how I feel about Brian and this marriage of ours. I won’t ever give up on our love. I will always love him so.
That said, the man gets on my nerves sometimes.

He opened up to me about some issues he’s having [...]

I have heard and read that the best way to improve your marriage is to try each day to make life easier and better for your spouse. I am going to try implementing this.
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Last August at the beach:

Last summer at Cedar Point:

This past June just chillin’ out on the balcony:

My sweetie with the kids (this was right before I-bop got her mohawk):

The man I live with gets things done. If the lawn needs to be mowed, he gets up and does it. He may groan while he’s getting up, but he does it. Unlike me he doesn’t spend time making long lists and then tackling each chore as if it were a ferocious monster that needs [...]

The man I live with is kinda hard to shop for. Although he is, for the most part, simple in his wants and needs. Everything he likes he already has plenty of, or it’s out of our budget right now. I would like to get him some nice new nifty gadget for his ibook. He [...]

Brian and I have decided to have another little one. A new person. A child. A baby. Who will it be? I sense this new person hovering around my edges, all ready to be born.
This is my youngest’s second full year of school all day. Last year he was in all-day kindergarten, which was Brian’s [...]

The man I live with taught me to drive. It started when we became friends. I was 22 with a kindegartner and a new baby, going to school and working off and on. My sister watched my baby for me and my daughter was in half-day kindergarten. After I dropped her off I would take [...]

The man I live with is very intense. He is present in all that he does and takes my attention when we are together. When we are together I feel our edges blend. At times this frightens me so I withdraw to nurture my identity. For this reason he is the pursuer in this relationship. [...]

The man I live with has pale skin that does not tan well. At the first sign of spring he walks around topless, his skin pale as the belly of some deep underwater fish. His absence of color makes him look anemic sometimes. When I trace his green veins traveling acoss his body, he says, [...]

The man I live with says ‘hey baby’ when he sees me. He likes a tongue kiss as soon as he gets home from work and he likes to squeeze my bottom. Once he lightly tapped my bum when hugging me goodbye when my parents were visiting, my dad pretended not to notice. I was [...]

The man I live with has hot, hot skin. He feels like a heating pad. In the winter this is very nice. I love to slip under the covers and melt into his skin, it’s like we have our own private hothouse under the heavy winter blankets. I am never cold when I am with [...]

One of the things that Brian does that grates on my nerves is he likes to wake me up in the morning when he’s feeling amorous. This really, really bothers me. I have chronic insomnia. I do not sleep well. Once asleep, it’s touch and go if I stay asleep for more than 4 hours [...]

I was reading over at Hip Mama about a poster having trouble with her husband’s mother. Just after I finished writing my two cents on the subject, my friend Amy called to bitch about her mother-in-law. Then I called my friend Diane E. to see if she can come to my graduation party, and she [...]

Man, Valentine’s Day was great!!! We had so much fun, it was crazy. I’ll not discuss what we did, it’s personal, dont’cha know, but suffice it to say that this was the best Valentine’s Day we have had in YEARS. I think the only V-day that was better than this was our very first one, [...]

Brian has been so tender lately, so sweet to me. Before I got married, almost everyone who was married gave me the same advice…they told me that marriage is a series of highs and lows. The lows nearly wipe me out. But the highs…it’s scary and exhilerating all at the same time. It’s like riding [...]

I’ll be 32 next month. I met Brian when I was 22. Going on 10 years of knowing this man, 8 years of being together, next May marks our 5th year wedding anniversary, and I’m just now realizing how little (and how much!) I know about him.
We got into a nasty fight a few weeks [...]

So Brian and I have been communicating better, which is saying a lot. We have vastly different communication styles. I come from a family where people are very direct and will say any and everything to your face. My family members are also very open with their feelings. Brian comes from a family where direct [...]