Things I’ll be Doing Between Now and October 7th, Which is Ten Days Away:
10. Writing various things pertaining to the corresponding descending numerical day count. Tomorrow’s title will be “Nine”. You can figure out the rest from there.
9. Buying area rugs for our bedroom, as I was kindly informed by my downstairs neighbor that my late-night cleaning binges and other walking-related choices have woken her up frequently for months now.
8. Obsessively redrawing various plans for the future second bedroom, including but not limited to: “Shall we do the walls in red? How should we build the desk? Floor shelves or wall shelves? What shade of futon cover?” But NOT including: Where will the bassinet go?(so phphphbtbtbtt, jen.)
7. Taking out my shiny new City Hall Outfit and staring happily at it, carefully hanging it back on the hangers, and putting it back in the closet.
6. Making plans for Every. Night. Of. The. Week. Until. Then. So that I don’t sit at home, and oh, chew my fingernails off from excitement.
5. Actually getting real work done at the office, so to justify our week long vacation of love.
4. Having dreams where I’m running through wrong airports, stuck in traffic on the Van Wyck, not wearing the right clothes or any clothes at all, beating up an INS officer, and generally having exactly the kind of airport-anxiety dreams one would expect.
3. Spending a lot of quality time with the Kate before she takes away all her good shoes moves to Carroll Gardens.
2. Digging up good winter recipes to try, thinking of great movies to watch, and how much tea there is to be drunk while snuggling on a certain cozy couch with a certain wonderful boyfriend for life. Giggling with anticipation.
1. Pacing the floors, singing along to the love songs, daydreaming out the window, counting the days, the hours, the minutes.
Here’s to Ten!

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