Love is in the air...as is the cold!

Well its spring time, the sun is shining and the fresh air is something of an aphrodisiac.

I don't usually blog about my relationship for two reasons. Firstly, I think its pretty sickly to read about other peoples' relationships. Secondly, I prefer to be a little private about it and not have embarrassing things spewed over my blog for the world to see. But what the hell...I'm dosed to the hilt on cold medicines, haven't eaten since breakfast (hoping that the old wive's tale about starving a fever might actually have some truth in it) and so I am feeling slightly euphoric!

On Monday Ken and I will have been together for one year. Unfortunately we've spent most of the last 3 months on separate continents, but amazing ourselves at the wonder of skype and the unbelieveable $10 diamond-europe calling cards which allow me 18 hours and 45 minutes of talktime to the UK. However, its now only 10 days until I see the lovely Ken again - and now the time is going soooo slowly. Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock.

I'm excited - I think I'm at my best when he's around. He brings out the good stuff in me. (That said, he's also privileged to see me at my very worst, poor guy). There is a lady at the Quaker meeting we go to back home who told me once that she enjoys watching us coming to meeting together. Ken worries that this is a Quaker way of saying, 'Urgh, you're too coupley'. I think he's just paranoid having spent too many years in Christian youth groups were pairing off and being "exclusive" was frowned upon.

I think she really does like seeing young people in the meeting, and that we are a young couple is also nice - apparently we remind her of when her and her husband came to the meeting in their 20s. I think couples can bring something genuinely special to a meeting. There is a couple at 15th street meeting in New York who kiss each other (just gently - not a full on frontal) at the end of Quaker meeting. I like seeing that - the tenderness, the warmth and the closeness that is there. Of course, they then turn and greet others around them.

A relationship is a great gift - both to the couple and those around them. As a couple we share our lives, our joys, our sorrows, our stressy moments, our love of garlic (thank God), and a great deal of fun. Just to add to this idyllic little picture I am painting, I like soft-centred chocolates (strawberry creams and the like) and Ken likes the nutty ones - see, even where we don't share the same tastes, it all works out for the best :). I don't think having a strong partnership makes you "exclusive" - but rather that we are together, living together, building our lives together and offering friendship and hospitality together to those around us. There are things I can offer with Ken that I cannot offer on my own.

But alas, enough of this noble talk. I'm just looking forward to a big mooshy kiss and massive full on, entirely sickening and completely unapologetic PDA at the airport :D