Fairy Tale Love

January 4, 1998

Today was busy... I got up and chatted with Jevim until he had to leave for his 11am class (his 10am was cancelled for Monday and today). I surfed for a little while, then packed off to Mom's room to spread out on her bed and study my programming... I'd lay in the middle of the floor here in my room, but my body doesn't much like that; my bed is too full of stuffed animals to have room for me and the books, so Mom's bed it is. Desk and chair? That's for computers! (Unless you have a laptop... I do miss mine.)

After homework, Mom and I went to Wal-Mart to get some things, and I wound up getting Boggle for the computer, to have something new to play and keep me entertained while I'm cooped up here for three weeks. I really didn't need it, but I like word games, and maybe it will help me a bit with my Scrabble game, which is pretty pathetic at times.

After we got what we needed there, including more food to keep me fed while Mom is gone, we headed out to the Golden Corral for their lunch buffet. At the register as we placed our order, they had a jug set up for donations; one of their waitresses, a young mother of three, had lost her husband. *sigh* Such a shame, two young people, who were just getting started with their lives. You have to wonder, sometimes, why these things happen.

I'm a fan of ice skating, and I had read an article in Reader's Digest about Ekaterina Gordeeva and her husband and skating partner, Sergei Grinkov, who died at the age of 28 a couple years ago, and so when I saw a preview for it on CBS the other day, I made a note to watch it tonight. Jevim had a basketball game to go to, so I had the chance to get away from the computer and watch most of it uninterrupted.

They seemed like such a perfect couple; their love for each other showed when they were on the ice, and I was especially touched by the time when Sergei took her in his arms and skated around with her on the ice when she had an injury that kept her from skating... it seems like the sort of thing Jevim would do, and reminds me of when he picked me up and carried me to the chair when he'd accidentally run over my toe one morning with his office chair.

I know that, like those two, Jevim and I have that kind of love. We may have our disagreements, and make mistakes now and then that hurt each other, but there is always forgiveness, and our love is just as strong, if not stronger, after the fact. But, I hope that unlike the young waitress at the restaurant and her husband, and unlike the Russian skaters, we will have a long and happy time together, once he is finished with school.

Sometimes I do wonder -- my health is not exactly the best -- but I think Jevim gives me the drive and the will to keep my body going. I believe that twenty years down the road we'll still be together, and very happy. We may be in Maryland, or California, or who knows where; as long as we're together, and there's a breathable atmosphere, I'll be happy.

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