My husband and I stayed up until 3 AM last night. This is something, considering we woke up @ 1:45 AM the night before and we're both older than dirt.

But it was that much fun.  

This is what life is about, I'd say. These times you have with the people you love.

This is what life is about, I'd say. These times you have with the people you love.

yes..yes..and yes :)

Ox and I collapsed before 10..lol..thud

Awww, fun :)

That is the first and last picture of my husband that will ever be on this blog. His troops gave that to him. They carved this for him, I think it's amazing. Those are bullet holes in the SF. The astrology is stunning.

Anyway, this is who I married.  We have a good damned time... as does anyone else who plays with us. :)

One Meat Ball...and no bread

LOVE that carving!!!!  What a treasure!  Thank you so much for posting it Elsa.

We stayed up late last night too - and it's highly unusual for us- but our son and his wife surprised us with a visit as well as about 6 other people and we had a spontanious PARTY!  We had such a great time... I'm a little foggy this morning as a result but it is well worth it and nothing 6 cups of coffee won't cure.

That carving is fantastic.

That is an amazing carving. Wow. I'm happy you were able to spend time together!

An amazing image - much appreciated. There is one upside to his being away so much - your time together is so precious and concentrated.... and you're both super-aware of that

This is the first night we have had like this since I used to drive to meet my husband which I think was at least 3 years ago, if not 4.   That right there, amazes me. I am damned near crying just to type this.

But anyway, it reminds me of a phone call my husband made to me once...the same kind of phone call Rick Riscorla made to his wife on 9/11. He told that she "made his life", right before he died after saving 2700 people.

My husband told me something similar once.  We'd spent a weekend together and he left me a long message to say that if he were to die and never see me again, he wanted me to know I had given him the best weekend he had ever had in life. 

It was a time like we last night and there have been some others like these in between and these are the times the make a life.

I rarely see my husband. Matter of fact if I were to take the 3-4 days a month we see each other and multiply them by the number of months he is like to live, based on the patterns in his family (the men die young), I have shockingly little time left. 

Factor in the level of danger he is exposed to at work and it's truly alarming. The thing is, nights like these are so fine and they are in the bank if you know what I mean.

If you love someone, let them know and let them know today.

My husband has his big pad.

"Are you going to lecture?"

"No, calculate.  Calculate for fun and amusement."  And off he went.

Calculating is one of my my husband's favorite leisure activities. Right up there with battle planning, lol. He is sitting on the bed with his neat writing in the top 10% of the huge sheet. Apparently he's got a huge thing planned because he has notebooks.

Anyway, this is his relaxation. I am going to peel a butternut squash for tonight's dinner. Vid is coming home and we'll try to get Quirk over too. :)



My husband's niece is a Scorpio with Moon, Venus and Mars in Sadge. She's 15.  I just sent her that wood carving pic, bigger / complete.

She met him for the first time, just recently. He grandmother and mother pulled out old pics while he was visiting and he was in them of course.

"You used to be so good looking," she blurted with that Sadge.

So I sent her the wood-carving and told her it was of her Uncle, back when he was good-looking.

Har har har.

"I used to go out like that," he said, meaning dripping with weapons, the way he is on the carving. "They'd tease me.  I told them, I'm a killin' motherfucker," he said. 'I don't go out there like X (people we saw in movie), with a pen knife and a broken beer bottle. Fuck with me and I'm gonna kill a bunch of ya.  It's like those girls from the truck stop (another story). Don't invite me to a party (war). Don't invite me to a good time, or you're gonna have one."

"I went into this truck stop and there were all these girls standing huddled together, they were scared."

"Scared?"

"Yeah. Some guy came in and scared 'em."

"What did he do?"

"I don't know, but they were scared, standing all huddled together, gaggle-fucked like a bunch of ducks. They were clustered together, huddled and hugging each other, I couldn't believe it."

"What happened?"

"I don't know. Some guy scared them.  There is no one in the bathroom, one of them said. The fuck there isn't. I was just in there and there is someone in there, want me to go break his face?"

"You said that?"

"Yeah.  Then some old man security guard came in and said he couldn't find anyone - thought he was gone. Guy had a white star on his hat.  Guy he was looking for but I couldn't believe it. The security guy was an old man. You girls could do better together, defending yourselves."

"You told them that?"

"No."

"Well what did you tell them?"

"I told them, what the hell are you guys afraid of?  Where's my coffee?  Good thing the bastard didn't take the coffee of I would break his ass for sure."

"What did they say?"

"Nothin'. They just acted all scared. What are scared of? I will beat the shit out of the guy for ya if he's here. They looked all shocked. Hey, I said. Don't invite me to a good time. Now can you break it up? One of you come over to the register and let me pay for my coffee, 'cause I gots to go."

Not sure how this sounds but I know my husband and his energy and I guarantee you those girls calmed down around him and also that they were not in danger because he'd have sensed that for sure.

"Why do girls do that?" he asked? "Why huddle together, send some old man who can't do shit, to go look some bastard?  Why didn't they leave and if they're not going to leave, why weren't they arming themselves?  They've got knives in there.  4 girls with knives could probably defend themselves against one white-star-hatted motherfucker.

He really doesn't understand why this does not occur to people - why they don't have this knowledge.

I have a variety of stuff on the shelf above my desk.  My husband picked up his high school ring and laughed. "You gave that to me twice," I said.

"Yeah, I know. The first time I gave it to you, you threw it back at me..."

This stuff is stupid except it's not because we were teenagers the first time. He has only given that ring to one girl.

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We watched Paul McCartney and Wings (Linda) do three songs, live in one concert, on youtube last night. This was in 1976. The album did not come out until a little while after, which was our era.

My husband feels that Paul was at his peak at this time.  He looked his best, played his best...and in fact, the sound (on youtube) of this live show is extraordinary. You can see the love  between Paul and Linda...people did not think it was real, but it was real, the same as the love between my husband and I, but as he said, we were scared. We didn't know what the hell to do.

We also watched Stonewall Jackson last night and when he met his first wife, he didn't know what the fuck was wrong with him. A friend had to tell him that he was in love. My husband said that he was the same way when he met me. Speedy had to tell him.

Anyway we listened to part of 2 song from this one concert and then the 3rd one all the way through because it "had to do with us". According to my husband, this is. He wanted me to see the connection between the songs and also the connection between Linda and Paul. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWrGSa-Asdk

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We watched one of my husband's wars in a movie last night. It was pretty stupid but interesting because he is there to translate and explain and such. It also got him to pull out the wood carving which is from that war.  This was a brutal, BRUTAL war and watching this, particularly watching what the women go through, is quite rough.

Basically what you have to do is fuck some guy and hope he gets you out of there or keeps you safe somehow, but mostly they end up with yet another baby. :(

It's very painful to watch because I felt I had choices when I was a young woman. I was more than a pussy. I had potential and opportunity which is why I love America,

Anyway, he also gave me a medal of Mary that was given to him by a chaplain before that war. He wore it during that war and in some others. It's very worn down but it's mine now and I think it's cool. :)

"It was very painful to watch because I felt I had choices when I was a young woman.  I was more than a pussy.  I had potential and opportunity which is why I love America." 

I agree and it breaks my heart to see how powerless women are in other countries.

And when I see this "Girls Gone Wild" bullshit and how young women piss on their potential, I think this is very sad.

Elsa...so glad you and hubby enjoyed some quality time.  And yeah...I think Paul and Linda had a happy marriage...

Well this is a strange thing.  My husband wanted to watch Lethal Weapon. I don't watch movies like this but I was looking at old posts and thought we'd seen it before, together.  I told him this and he said he'd never seen it. I had just seen this post:

http://www.elsaelsa.com/astrology/2008/07/12/mercury-opposing-pluto-deep-penetrating-hidden-knowledge/

"Yeah, we saw it. You were telling me what gun the guy was using...it was ambidextrous and he kept changing hands in the movie to illustrate this. He named the gun and I realized it was Bruce Willis, not Mel Gibson. "Oh!  That was Die Hard.  Okay, you're right.  We've not seen this..."

He starts the movie and is very happy with the opening sequence where Gibson kicks ass. "I haven't seen anything like that for awhile." He enjoys the movie.

Then they get to the part where the little boy recognizes the tattoo.  My husband has the same tattoo. We were pretty amused at that point and throughout. I have no idea why he's never seen the movie. 10 min into I realized I had but I don't remember when.