{"id":950,"date":"2010-04-17T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=950"},"modified":"2010-04-17T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T14:59:00","slug":"degrees-and-date-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Degrees and Date Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Today Sanj finished his last classwork for his Doctorate degree! Yeah! &nbsp;He has his comprehensive test at the end of the month and then it is all over. &nbsp;You would think, at least. &nbsp;Yet, if you are a workaholic as my husband is, that time that was once taken seems like empty time. &nbsp;I already can see the look of restlessness in him. &nbsp;Brothers. &nbsp;Yes, I know, I am pretty sure the field of psychology could have a field day with him!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Here&#8217;s the thing, all around me are people (family members) that are working on degrees. &nbsp;Masters and Doctorates.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/S8navIXxclI\/AAAAAAAADQ0\/oR95KoIIWWQ\/s1600\/date-night-poster.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/S8navIXxclI\/AAAAAAAADQ0\/oR95KoIIWWQ\/s400\/date-night-poster.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">What am I working on? &nbsp;I am not sure. &nbsp;I am feeling restless. &nbsp;I am feeling that maybe I need to be i n school working on something. &nbsp;There is however the little factor that I <i>&nbsp;<\/i><b><i>h a t e <\/i><\/b>school! &nbsp;I am not the kind of person that learns really well sitting in a classroom, taking notes, and then being tested on it. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t learn like that.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I guess a degree isn&#8217;t really what I am after (got one) . &nbsp;I already have a B.S. after my name and really I don&#8217;t think about it or use it. &nbsp;I occasionally use the MRS. before my name but that is about it. lol &nbsp;(It was sort of a joke&#8230; did you laugh)? &nbsp;Oh fine, comedy hour isn&#8217;t my thing either.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I want to write&#8230; yet feel so lost still overwhelmed by it all. &nbsp;I have lots of encouragement and offers to &nbsp;help. &nbsp;Maybe that is the step I need to take. &nbsp;I am also thinking of taking a writing class. &nbsp;I just need to do it. &nbsp;I guess part of my problem is letting go. &nbsp;There is so much that needs to happen on a school night &#8230; reading, memory verses, algebra, being in bed on time&#8230; &nbsp;can and will that happen without me?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I need to let go. &nbsp;I know.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We watched Date Night with Steve Carrell and Tina Fey. &nbsp;Great Movie. &nbsp;It was a little too honest and real. &nbsp; We are that couple in so many ways, I felt uncomfortable sitting next to Sanj watching it during some parts. &nbsp;On the ride home, we were silent for the most part. &nbsp;A comfortable silence&#8230; yet then I thought, what if he thought that we had nothing left to say? &nbsp;I said this and Sanj said, &#8220;I was just thinking the same thing&#8221;.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We are that couple that thinks, &#8220;We really should go out&#8230; do you want to?&#8221; Yet really, we just want to hang at home and do whatever. &nbsp;Is that bad?<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We are that couple that is often awakened by our 5 year old cannon balling us with his body, begging us( ok not us just me since Sanj has usually been up for a couple hours already) to get up while clock tells us it is Saturday and not yet 7 a.m.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I loved the reality of being intimate&#8230; the long version or the short&#8230; lol.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I love the annoying things that drives each other crazy&#8230; leaving everything open (cupboards, drawers) or maybe leaving hair in the sink, or the toliet seat up or the half drunk cups of diet coke&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">It was a great movie. &nbsp;It was shouting out the reality of marriage. &nbsp;I left thinking that being boring and normal really is OK, isn&#8217;t it? &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I would chose to marry Sanj over and over (most days, lol). &nbsp;So we are good&#8230;. who needs a constant flurry of excitement? &nbsp;Once in a while is good, though right?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">These are my thoughts&#8230; &nbsp;At least Sanj always knows what I am thinking!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">xoxo<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Sanj finished his last classwork for his Doctorate degree! 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