14 Years Ago Today

Happy 14th Anniversary, Husbear.
It's difficult to believe it's been fourteen years.
Mostly because it hasn't felt like fourteen years.
I know that love takes work.
And time.
A lifetime, to be exact.

I love you so much.

Press play on the video, then scroll down and read along.

I was walking, was living,
My melody was a capella.
There's a beat I was missing,
No tune, or a scale, I could play.

No sound in the distance,
No orchestra playing together.
Like a boat out to sea,
The silence was too deafening!

So come and revive me,
I can't feel my heartbeat,
It's just me surviving alone.

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Before you,
My whole life was a capella!
Now a symphony's
The only song to sing.
Before you,
My whole life was a capella!
Now a symphony's
The only song to sing.

Everything was the same.
One color was just like the others.
An assembly routine,
My memories were all black and white.

'Till I stopped over-thinking,
Decided to draw back the curtains.
And I cleared all the cobwebs
And began to let in the light.

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So come and revive me,
I can't feel my heartbeat,
It's just me surviving alone.

Before you,
My whole life was a capella!
Now a symphony's
The only song to sing.
Before you,
My whole life was a capella!
Now a symphony's
The only song to sing.

You are the drum in my heart beat
Bass and guitar lead
Stuck on the notes you play
My heart that you play on
Grab like a crayon
I can't walk away.

Before you,
My whole life was a capella!
Now a symphony's
The only song to sing.
Before you,
My whole life was a capella!
Now a symphony's
The only song to sing.



Here's the original song the above was taken from. I actually like the visuals in the video. They're very much something you would like.

I do love you. So much.
Happy anniversary baby.

Until next time...
Erik

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posted 219 days ago at 7:01 am in Events

This is the cake the Husbear just surprised me with. At the studio.

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this is a picture post I tweeted 232 days ago at 6:54 pm

38

I have now outlived Vincent van Gogh who died from a self-inflicted gun shot wound at the age of 37. I only know that because it was talked about on the Doctor Who episode I just watched ("Vincent and the Doctor"). Now if only I could paint something even remotely as beautiful as he did, like "The Pandorica Opens", also known as "Blue Box Exploding":

It's not a real van Gogh painting, but it was a plot piece painted by "van Gogh" in a later Doctor Who episode. And it is very van Gogh-ish. And I love me some Doctor Who.

I have also outlived the great Michael Hutchence, who also took his own life at the age of 37. Michael was the lead singer for the band INXS, which is one of my favorite bands of all time.

Michael had a voice that was unique. He also had charisma and sexiness oozing out of every pore on his body. If I ever had entertained the thought of being a singer or sexy public figure, I would have wanted to have been like him.

Yesterday was the last full day of my thirty-seventh orbit around the Sun. Today, June 17, I turn thirty-eight.

It's been a year. I don't know that there was anything particularly spectacular or great about my year, but it was a year nonetheless. I slept, I ate, I drew, I tattooed, I drank, I had sex on occasion, I spent some time with friends, I read some blogs, I watched some shows, I sat at a computer. Rinse, lather, repeat. I was stressed, I was sad, I was happy, I was melancholy, I felt hurt, I was meh. Rinse, lather, repeat. That's pretty much sums up year 37. Maybe year 38 will somehow be more spectacular than year 37 was? Or maybe it will be the same?

I leave you with INXS performing "The Strangest Party (These Are The Times)". Watch Michael exude sexiness. RIP.

Until next time...
Erik

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posted 233 days ago at 3:06 am in Ponderings

Happy Birfday Husbear!

May 4 is the anniversary of the day the Husbear was expelled from the uterine cavity of his mother. Such a wonderful description for a birthday, isn't it?

Happy Birthday Husbear!

Everyone please wish him a Happy Birthday, either in a comment here, or better: post something on his Facebook wall or send him a message there.


Ain't he purdy?

And to my Husbear:

Husbear:
Any idea where the year went?
I think I missed it,
Running around in circles,
Taking care of stuff...

And I wonder...
Did I love you enough?
Did I look at you and really see
The remarkable man you are—
And tell you how lucky I am
to be married to you?

Well, it's about time I did
Because I am, you know...
I am and I do and I will—
And I hope you know it.

Happy Birthday

Until next time...
Erik

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posted 277 days ago at 12:36 am in Ponderings

It’s 3 Days Late, But Happy New Year!

Okay, so I'm 3 days late in posting this. I'm a busy guy! Right..... Like anyone believes that.

I hope you and those around you had a great start to the New Year.

The Husbear and I ended the old calendar year and started the new in Dallas. We had a relaxing getaway weekend.

And I got to meet several people in real life that I had only interacted with either through blogging and/or Twitter/Facebook.

First I got to meet Jim from over at Jim's Stuff. I snapped this picture of he and my Husbear dancing at the Round-Up Saloon and Dance Hall on New Year's Eve:


That's them in the middle of the picture. If you squint you can make them out.

I then got to meet Thomas of The Boomerang Texan (and formerly blogging as "T Town Tommy") who mostly now exists as @thomasntexas. Thomas and his partner, and the previously mentioned Jim, and the Husbear and I all met up for a Brunching.


Myself, Thomas, Thomas' husband, and my Husbear.

Sadly I didn't have my camera with me until after Jim had already left from the Brunching. I'll fix that with the next trip to Dallas!

And I also met a few people from Twitter as well! I just get around these days. At least digitally.

It's takes a lot out of me wrangling the Husbear after a night of him being a social butterfly. Which caused this:

That's what I get for leaving the camera laying around for the Husbear to find.

Happy 20-11 to you all!

Until next time...
Erik

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