…and that is pretty fucking cool!

Scene:  Living room.  A Christmas tree is being decorated with lights and ornaments and ribbon.  Christmas music plays in the background.  The dogs are tearing the stuffing out of two toys.  Other than the music and the dogs, it’s relatively quiet.

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Me:  B, can you untangle those lights over there in that pile?  Plug them in and make sure they still light up.

B:  Sure.

He plugs them in to check them out, strand by strand, until all lights are accounted for.

B:  Hahahahahahaha.  Oh my god.  Hahahahahahaha.

Me:  What is so funny over there?  Haha.  Hahahahaha.  Hahahahahahahahahaha.

B:  I don’t know!  I just realized that I’m really, really happy and it’s a great feeling.

Me:  So you laughed?  You are so weird!

While we’re walking circles around the tree stringing on the lights, he stops to hug me.

B:  I’m not weird.  I just realized that this will be my last Christmas with you as my girlfriend.  Soon you’re going to be my fiance.  And that is pretty fucking cool.

Me:  Awww…I love you.  It is pretty fucking cool, isn’t it?

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Just about an hour later, after we’d finished the tree and had dinner, we sat on the couch together watching tv and staring at the Christmas lights.  It was then that I realized that life was perfect, right in that moment.  And that everything really was going to be okay.