in more positive reporting...

[winterbadger]

soccer_fox and I had a lovely day yesterday; I took the day off to get some legal transactions arranged with the State Of Maryland, and accomplished a few.

We footled about most of the morning, talking and watching Wonderfalls, then in the afternoon we went to the Motor Vehicle Administration and got MD drivers' licenses and registered to vote. We had hoped to change the titling and registration of our cars as well, but we were not able to find a place that could go the state safety exam that day, so we're going to do that later. We've still got a couple of weeks left in our grace period.

We also walked up to the local library and got cards there. It's in quite a nice community center, which has a computer facility and game room and various meeting rooms. Herself read the town newsletter and discovered that there's a healthcare-related committee that needs volunteers to serve, so she's going to be looking that up. We also saw an ad for another local famers' market, one that redactrice had mentioned to me, so we're goign to give that a try next week. It was a nice day for walking about, and we wandered home a different way.

N made us a tasy dinner, and we watched a movie I'd ordered from Netflix on a whim. It's called "Blow Dry", and it's a gently hilarious comedy in the vein of The Full Monty or Strictly Ballroom. It's advertised as starring Alan Rickman, which drew me to it, but once it started playing there was a huge parade of British and other actors whose appearance is like a warm blanket to me, promising an evening of good acting, gentle humour, and wonderful fun. Bill Nighy has become, for some strange reason, one of my favourite actors, and he plays Rickman's principal foe. Natasha Richardson plays Rickman's ex-wife, who ran off ten years before the film opens with a colleague and her new love interest, played by Rachel Griffiths. Josh Harnett plays the son of Rickman's and Richardson's characters. Warren Clarke, Rosemary Harris, David Bradley, Oliver Ford Davies, all sorts of people in supporting roles. It was great fun.

Most of all, I got to spend a whole day, in a leisurely way, with my favourite lady, which was a huge treat for me. I do love her so much! :-)

Comments

[azbound.livejournal.com]

"Blow Dry" is easily one of my fave movies. You expect it to be one thing and it ends up being something completely different and so much more.

BTW, you forgot Hugh Bonneville. *Love him"

[winterbadger]

Oh, is he the chap who plays Bill Nighy's sidekick? Wasn't sure if I'd seen him before, but he was in "Tipping the Velvet" (mmmmm! :-) so I must have done...

[justjayj.livejournal.com]

Drive-by commenting to say, "Yay, Wonderfalls!"

[winterbadger]

Yes! My work friend Nick introduced me to it, from whence I have spread the virus to gr_c17, redactrice, and now soccer_fox. :-)

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a great way to spend a day (well, except for the DMV part, but it feels good to get that stuff done).

Seems like you guys are settling in nicely---to the new neighborhood and to each other.

[winterbadger]

Even the DMV was kind of fun; we talked to each other, read our books, N chatted with one of the horde of other applicants about learning Spanish and difference Latin American accents.

Yeah, we're settling in to our neighborhood pretty well. We've found several local shops that provide alternatives to big chains. We've tried out the local food co-op. We're slowly learnign how to navigate without a map. I think if we had to stay in the DC area I would be happy to stay in Takoma Park; so far it seems even more like my kind of place than Falls Church or Del Ray.

And, yes, we're getting used to each other. Of course the "new relationship" high only lasts so long, after which one has to assess whether all the wild and crazy things you said and did in the grips of it are things that you want to maintain. And so far they seem to be so. We're finding each other's rough edges and learning how we differ from the people we've been with before. We're learning how to *live* with each other, instead of just being in love with each other. We're learning how we can hurt each other as well as make each other happy.

And she's still a marvelous, wonderful, beautiful person to me, someone I adore and am happy being with day in and day out, someone I look forward to living with and traveling with and exploring with and building a life with. She's very different in many ways from anyone I've been in love with before, but she really means the world to me.

[schizokitty.livejournal.com]

I loved Blow Dry! ^_^ An image that has particularly stuck with me was when Mssr. Rickman (/lust) revealed the tattoo on his ankle. So (melo)dramatic! ^_^

Yay for a wonderful day in the new neighbourhood, with your best gal by your side. *warm fuzzies*