top ten things ian has done for me recently

to commemorate one year tomorrow!!!

1. he saved my gramma's knife. going through the airport security, i had completely forgotten about the knife i'd salvaged from my grandma's jewelry box upon her death, and was pretty convinced i'd lost it. ian, however, went back through security, retrieved it, and called one of his friends to pick it up.

2. he let me listen to npr this morning on the way to work. for a week now, i've been listening to someone else's radio station to and from work. without my requesting or even mentioning it, he turned the channel to npr so i could listen to the news this morning.

3. he stopped for egg nog on the way home from the grocery store today. he was tired and his knees were hurting and his stomach was aching from those nachos, but when i mentioned wanting to stop at the liquor store sometime for egg nog, he swung on by. and offered to go into office depot, too, but i declined.

4. he's woken up early every day for six days to take me to work. he's really not a morning person, but he's managed to get himself up and not be terribly grumpy in order to have me to work by eight every morning.

5. the other day, we were talking about how i don't buy anything from altria and he asked me if a certain brand (i don't remember which) was altria and i confessed i couldn't remember. i said it was really hard to remember them all. so he told me that he would help me remember. he's always been not only tolerant of my moral stances, but downright supportive of them, even though they're not his thing.

6. massages my shoulders with icy hot when i'm feeling stressed.

7. compliments me on how well i clean or decorate the house. i know it's little, but it's nice to hear someone say that they appreciate the way i keep the house up.

8. he brought me coffee at work. 12oz double-shot pumpkin spice latte.

9. he has, on more than one occasion, driven all the way out from north richland to pasco, to give me a hug when i'm having a bad day at work.

10. he has been by my side every single day for an entire year!!