Remember that special lady I told you about last night?

Well, she blessed me with a special Anniversary day today. She and I signed the papers to close on our house, we went to work & then we went to dinner. We shared some spaghetti, some wine and (YUM) a Krispy Kreme Sweetbread desert.

Yes, I think I may have had a weeks worth of salt & sugar at dinner tonight, but it was worth it.
Everything was simple, but it was just so nice to have an hour or two where we could be Ashley & Craig.

Of course, all of this came with periodic stops to remember that I almost was not around to HAVE dinner and a glass of wine. Yes, tonight, once again, this THING that happened to me hovered over everything we did and said today.

However, we are far enough out now, that my condition influenced my decisions, but it did NOT control them. I was aware of my decisions and their consequences, but I still felt free to make choices rather than be forced into decisions.

Other than dinner, I was VERY careful today & I will likely be equally careful tomorrow to make up for my dinner selections. My heart attack made me be careful.

Dinner was a release, an escape, a reward; call it what you want (yes, maybe even a bad set of decisions) but it was what I WANTED to do, not what I was REQUIRED to do....

....and that felt great.

So, tomorrow we get back to being a "good boy" and looking forward to the next "escape". Tonight, I will finish my little vacation and make some sweet memories that Ashley & I can talk about 14 years from now....God willing, of course.

Good night & God bless