Well, they say to be careful what you wish for… In my case, I wished for snow.  As of now, we’ve got around 10 inches on the ground, it’s still coming down and the 40mph winds are blowing drifts all over God’s creation.  Oh well… at least when it settles down I’ll have a chance to play with the new snow thrower.

So, has it really been since the middle of December since I posted?  Wow… I can’t even blame Warcraft for the delay as I really haven’t had much time to play lately.  I am finally getting Gadrok leveled up (78 at the moment), but at the rate I’m going it’ll be a while before I hit 80.

Overall, things are good in the Malmstrom home;  Shannon’s finally recovered from some minor surgery.  The kids are doing well in school and continue to enjoy it.  Diamond has been holding fast through the country’s economic turmoil, and seems to be back in a growth mode again.  Shannon and I are still getting out as a couple once a week or so, and having lots of fun meeting new friends.  All in all, life is good.

As for the quotes… Yes, I’ve been maintaining the quotes to my Love each day.  It’s been getting more and more complicated to find new ones that I like and haven’t used, but I continue to send them.  As it’s been so long, I’m going to post some in batches to try and catch up.  So without further ado, here’s the first installment for 2009:

12/15 – “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”  – Germaine De Stael

12/16 – “The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”  – Sir Hugh Walpole

12/17 – “Perfect love is rare indeed – for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.”  – Leo Buscaglia

12/18 – “Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”  – Voltaire

12/19 – “When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.”  – Erich Fromm

12/22 – “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”  – Rabindranath Tagore

12/23 – “Only in the mysterious equations of love can any real logic be found.”  – from “A Beautiful Mind”

12/24 to 12/26 – Christmas Vacation

12/29 – “To the world you may only be one person, but to one person you may be the world”  – Heather Cortez

12/30 – “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”  – Thomas Merton

12/31 – “Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.”  – Henry Ward Beecher

2009
01/01 – New Years Day

01/02 – “Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.”  – Felix Adler

01/05 – “You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”  – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

01/06 – “I think we dream so we don’t have to be away from one another. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we’ll always be together.”  – Hobbes

01/07 – “your slightest look easily will unclose me though I have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose”  – E.E. Cummings

01/08 – “What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?”  – George Eliot

01/09 – “I’ve looked around enough to know that you’re the one I want to go through time with.”  – Jim Croce

01/12 – “Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;  And every little absence is an age.”  – John Dryden

01/13 – “Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.”  – Kahlil Gibran

01/14 – “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”  – from “Hook”

01/15 – “I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.”  – Jennifer Gray in “Dirty Dancing”

01/16 – Out of the Office all Day.

I’ll try to post another batch in the next couple of days to help catch up.  Enjoy!