I Had to Think I Was in Love

Lately Jerry's business ventures have been on a steady upward swing. Enough that we aren't fretting month to month about paying things like the mortgage or doing fun things from time to time ... but not so much that we're running out and replacing our steadily falling apart vehicles with something splendid. I think, however, that he is starting to feel more confident in what direction his business is headed because he had been indulging me and actually playing a long when I talk about "my dream house". Last night it cropped up again when he came into check on the kids and I doing our Friday night ritual. As he was leaving I asked him what he was up to, he responded that he was going out to change the oil on the Citation. His love for that car is an entirely different story I refuse to tell, it may show some kind of softening towards said car. I asked him if we could have a three car garage on the dream house (that we're building in the clouds, if you want to know ...) and he said he was thinking more a two car garage and a shop. Then asked why it was so important to me. I looked at him incredulously and replied, "Well, I'd sure like to have a garage I could park in. You know, so when we have hail, you wouldn't have to run it over to a bank drive thru. In the summer, it'd be cool when I got into it. In the winter I wouldn't have to scrape off the frost ... Small things, really." Then gave him a saucy smile. He shook his head and walked away (he does that a lot). His Chevy Citation takes up a little more than half of the 2 car garage we currently have ... with his tools and various other projects spread out over the rest of the garage floor.
This morning as I was trying to figure out if I could rearrange the laundry room I happened to look out into the garage at the Citation with it's hood up and had a flash back of our first week back in Texas after we were married. His parents had arranged for us to spend a week out at Holly Lake Ranch Resort out in east Texas immediately after we returned from Oregon. We'd left Cobol here in Texas while we were in Oregon for the wedding proceedings, so we felt like we should take him with us. Therefore we needed to take the Citation, as the Mazda Miata he owned at the time wouldn't fit all three of us. You have to know ... I am a HUGE snob when it comes to cars. So thinking about the fact that I willingly drove two hours in this car ... I totally must have been infatuated with the guy. I mean really ...