Tessie D

I went shopping for Christmas presents after work yesterday. I’ve saved up over the past couple months a little bit in each paycheck so that I’d have some set aside. Even before Angel, I knew that I wanted this Christmas to be different. I’ve never really bought presents for anyone — never really had the…

Angel and I went out again this weekend. We started having breakfast again in the morning. Eating lunch together just the two of us at my office desk. Spending all our time together on the weekends. Angel came over on Saturday night with a pizza and a bottle of wine. We were going to hang…

How is it possible to feel like this? To feel such a capacity for love and joy and happiness? I was in the grocery store yesterday, and a guy kept talking to me at the checkout counter. He was gorgeous–blonde hair and tanned skin. And, he was talking to me. Asking me about my day…

Today is Momma’s and Daddy’s wedding anniversary. I’m not sure how many of their anniversaries have been happy, but they’ve made it this long together. That has to count for something. They met when Momma was working at a hospital in Grapevine. One of the nurse’s aides had a son who was in the Army…

Angel took me out this weekend to a Christmas party on Saturday night. One of his friends from high school was throwing a party, and we drove up there. I hadn’t been to the Metroplex in years, not since we went to Six Flags in high school during my junior year for a field trip…

Angel and I went out for dinner last night at the Chinese restaurant in town. He laughed at me when I told him it’d be the best Chinese food that he’d ever eat. “In Brownwood? I am not too sure about that?” He laughed. Maybe he was right, but it was certainly the best–and only–Chinese…

Angel and I had our first date on Friday night. I’ve never been on a date before–so I don’t have anything to compare it to–but it was perfect and the closest I’d ever come to feeling like I was living in a romantic movie. I remember the feeling of watching movies and music videos of…

I hadn’t been coming in early to the office and had been working through my lunch break for a few weeks now. But Angel came into the office at lunch today and asked me to join him and a few of the others outside, under the pecan tree. “Come on, it’s a beautiful day, and…

I thought it was only going to be Thanksgiving dinner. I just didn’t want to go home. That was all. Let me go back and start from the beginning. I called Momma on Monday, and she said she was going to be working all night on Wednesday, which means that she’d be sleeping all day…

I woke up feeling sullen on Sunday. The weather is changing, and seasons are coming and going, even without my sweet Baby. Saturday had come and gone, and I realized when I woke up on Sunday morning that I’d gone an entire day without thinking about her. The passing of time makes it harder to remember…