16 months together

 

Today is our 16 month anniversary and we're incredibly happy but I don't know how much we're going to get to celebrate. Gabe has been extremely busy training new people, hopefully eventually taking some of the strees off him and making his job a bit easier. I had a rather tough start to the week myself; our entire network of computers decided to crash at once and for most of Monday no one could do anything. We're essentially an entire day behind on our filing and toward the end of the year that's never a good thing. I was getting very worried our computers had contracted a virus and was starting to panic, thinking we had a serious problem on our hands. The IT people were baffled at first and seemed to have no idea what happened and I was terrified our files had been hacked and someone now had a lot of information they're not surpposed to. Thankfully it's been cleared up and no leak happened. We absolutely need to upgrade our security just in case though. Gabe and I had been doing our usual chat back and forth from our respective jobs and the last message I answered from him was " I love you, gorgeous." Of course I told him I love him too but for hours he didn't hear from me and that made him a bit nervous. He knows under normal circumstances I talk a lot to him and he actually came to see that I was okay. He saw my face and immediately knew something awful had happened. He actually used to work in IT when he was younger and had some idea of the magnitude of our problem. He ran out for a bit and came back with my favorite coffee, some chocolate covered strawberries, and a huge hug. This man is the best thing to ever happen to me. ♥️💕♥️💕 Sadly he only got permission to step out to check on me and had to get back to work. You have no idea what that means to me;to have a man love me that much, it's the best feeling in the world. I'm just glad nothing got destroyed or stolen and our system is up and running again. I've been telling myself I need to get our house ready for Christmas but just don't have the time or energy right now. I'm still planning his birthday party honestly and Christmas is far too close to that to give me any extra time to prepare. I'm going to buckle down this weekend and get the Christmas tree up while Gabe is at work. Unfortunately I know he's going to have to work. It really helps if he sets up the tree as it weighs about 70 pounds and I struggle to lift or move it. He wouldn't mind if I ask him but he gets so little free time and when he's home I like to just let him relax. I think he and I are going to have to face the fact that neither of us are in our 20s anymore and take better care of ourselves. What we really are is a couple of tired nearly 40 year olds desperately in love but overworked and exhausted by responsibilities we never asked for. That being said we still do everything we can to make each other happy. I need to get back to work; I wrote this on my meager lunch break.