Container store date

Most people get excited about going out to see a movie or eat at a fancy restaurant. My lady gets excited about organizing things. Really. All things have a home in our home, it's just they are often not there because I don't know where their homes are or that I am even carrying them around. So when the container store opened a branch here in Cleveland, I got a few VERY excited text messages from her. I knew that taking her to look at things to put things in might get me a few extra kisses, so I was all for it.

Satu and I have two entirely different cleaning methods. She organizes things and I throw things away. I feel as though my way keeps areas cleaner longer, but eventually we need the thing I threw away and will tear up the house trying to find it. Satu's method allows things to slowly migrate around to the various places where I use them and then leave them as soon as I start on something else.

I think that the place is pretty calming for Satu in the same way that a well stocked wall of bookshelves can be. She seemed totally at home among the stacks of expensive bookshelves and tight fitting lids of all sorts. It is part of what inspired me to spend today building a bookshelf for her comic books. I thought about what a shame it is that they should have to go in boxes while books without pictures get to be out among the things that we live with. They deserve better, and if I measure right this time, they can be well organized and easy to flip through.

After our great adventure, we came home and watched our favorite cheesy show and ordered take out. For some people, our lives may seem kind of boring, but they aren't. No matter where I go with Satu, I have fun. We don't have to go find entertainment all the time. I find her endlessly entertaining. And I did score a few extra kisses, so entertaining and exciting.

The only thing I care about collecting is little moments like that with my beautiful wife. I wish there was a way to box up those sweet kisses and have them over and over again.