Hi Blogosphere …

On March 11th, I finally met my niece. She was WAY tinier in person and for a baby super long and skinny. Sigh, jealous of her already. I didn’t want to leave. Is it time to retire yet?

And I got my eyebrows tinted for the first time with Sissy. Ignore the eye mask going on, this is the only picture I could find that was the day after tinting. I loved not doing my eyebrows for a good two weeks.

On March 18th, I celebrated Persian New Year (Nou Rouz) with Scruffy’s family where we ate and played games with some well wishes in between. This would be the third new year I celebrated. Crazy.

On March 24th, Sissy, BIL, Scruffy, and I attended the Rockets vs Pelicans game, Scruffy’s first basketball game. It was a nail bitter throughout the whole game but in the end we won!

Today marks one year of dating this beau. So weird how time passes us by so fast. We celebrated this weekend by lounging around the house watching Lost, homemade taco salads, oven roasted asparagus, Disney Karaoke, dancing, and answering questions to see how well we knew each other. We ended it by having a meal at Bombay Grill for lunch the next day, our favourite restaurant at the moment. Happy One Year!

When I was a little girl, I’d dream about the perfect date being in an amusement park. Ride scary rides and hold his hand for dear life. Maybe puke a little. Stuff our faces with funnel cakes, corn dogs, and the such. Play games and win a stuffed animal. Continue with rides and end with the Ferris wheel while the stars shine brightly all around us.

As I grew older, I’d realize there wasn’t such a thing as a “perfect” date. Instead, an experience we both have never encountered before or something that challenges us mentally and physically would be the perfect date.

I was at Six Flags at the end of April with Scruffy and we only did a sliver of what I imagined it would be when I was little. Rides were ridden but he was the one that blacked out on the Superman. We split a funnel cake but we couldn’t even devour half of it. And we left early because a few hours was enough to make our inner child happy.

As we headed back to the hotel, it dawned on me that any experience we have together is a new experience because we experienced it as a couple for the first time. And that in itself is perfect enough.