Not Dead.

Sorry about really slacking on my posts lately. I honestly havent had all that much to talk about. Not to mention, I've been busy with work...which puts a damper on traveling too far from home for too long.

* As mentioned in my last post, Eric and I have been married for three amazing years. Thinking back, I logged into my ancient MySpace account (I haven't logged in for several months!) and found a blog I did for our one year anniversary:

"Three hundred & sixty five days ago, I made the best decision in my life. I married the man who is my soul mate, my better half, my best friend, my everything. Frankly, I couldn't imagine my life without him or how it would've been if we had never met.

Throughout this last year, there's been multiple up & down events, but he's always stood by me when I've needed him:

When my mother became extremely ill from her cancer, he understood that I needed to be with my family even though we were newly weds. For the first 3 months of our marriage, we lived apart while I attended to my Mom & helping my Dad. Once my Mom passed away, Eric helped me emotionally since I was a complete wreck. He instantly volunteered to help carry her casket without having to be asked.. I loved him even more for doing that because it meant the world to not only myself, but to my Dad. 

One time, I was extremely upset about my Mother & her worsening condition that when I got home from visiting her.. I went straight to the shower & started sobbing. Eric came in to check on me, saw my condition... stepped into the shower with me (fully clothed) while the water was running & just held me. I was sobbing uncontrollably but he stayed in there..told me over and over again that he loved me & was there for me no matter what. 

I've had spurts of depression & went through rough patches...never once did he ever say anything negative to me. I gained weight while depressed & he always told me I was beautiful. Never once did he tell me to lose weight. 

Whenever I want to go for a walk, no matter how tired he is or how long his day was... he hops up and goes with me so I have someone to talk to. 

I always forget to grab a towel before I hop in the shower...by the time I'm ready to get out, there's a fresh towel waiting for me. 

If I have a migraine & he can hear how tired I am on the phone; he welcomes me home with a hug & kiss, a glass of water & Excederine.

He'll randomly come up & tell me, "You're so beautiful. I love you." and that will make my day. 

Last Christmas, he put up a Christmas Tree for me AND decorated it because I was so busy with work. He HATES Christmas and is a total scrooge... so for him to put the tree up for me because he knows it's my favorite holiday meant the world to me.

I love my husband. There's no other way to put it. I love & adore him beyond words could ever describe."

Just reading back on that old post... made me smile. He hasn't changed one bit, and I love it :) 

In other Erika news...

For our anniversary, Eric bought me a pretty badass little scooter! I'm sooo inlove with it!  It's a lil 50cc, white scooter that'll let me zip around town and even get me to work so I don't have to use my beloved, gas guzzling Xterra. Most days, my Xterra is very handy, but it's rather painful on my wallet when it costs (roughly), eight dollars a gallon. And here I thought that California was expensive! HA!With my scooter, it only costs about six euro to fill up! NIIIIIIIIIIIIICE! Sadly, I don't have a picture of it considering my camera is STILL without a charged battery (I'm waiting for my charger to come back from my dad..it should be here any day now). Once it's here and charged, I promise..I'll take pictures! Eric says I look so cheesy and goofy when I'm zipping around on it since I have a HUGE grin on my face. Never mind the fact I have a bright pink helmet I rock while ridin' :)

Lesse...what else...

It looks like I'll be heading to Antwerp later this week with some gal pals! I'm excited since I've been wanting to go there...but... it's also to get another Starbucks Mug. It's a sickness, I tells ya! It's like a personal mission to find any and every Starbucks within the country and try to get a beloved mug. How funny... I'm going to the diamond capital of the world..and I want a Starbucks mug. Hopefully my charger comes in before Thursday so I can get some nice pictures in Antwerp!! Otherwise, I'll have to rely on Eric's pocket camera..which I totally hate. HATE!

Next weekend, Eric and I will be venturing off to Brussels for the day since they'll have their famous Floral Carpet event. They make this amazing tapestry out of 800,000+ flowers! I'm so excited cause I remember reading about it in a travel book about Belgium that I bought when we found out we were moving here. Apparently it's only made on every even numbered year (2000, 2002, 2004, etc.) Here's some examples from past carpets:

I seriously can't wait!

I'm sure there's other stuff I should write about..but it's bordering on 10pm here and I'm rather tired. We hit up Aachen today to have a date lunch at our favorite sushi place, did some grocery shopping just to come home in time to clean the house (boooo!). Hopefully tomorrow will be a lil slower so I can relax a lil bits :)