I’ve wanted to visit Seattle for years. But up until recently, we’ve always been suuuuuper broke. Finally, a decade into our careers, we’re both in our early thirties. Considering kids, not planning for it, not rushing it. We didn’t get to travel in our twenties, but in the last few years, our combined incomes have beaten inflation by a pretty good margin. My wife because she’s unwilling to settle and looks for a new job as soon as she feels undervalued. Me because my workplace has been investing in its current staff and doling out regular raises.
I’ve been telling her for years I want to visit Seattle. So for Christmas, she surprised me with Green Day and Smashing Pumpkins tickets in Seattle. Then she arranged accommodations with this awesome view of the Puget Sound pictured above, a rental car, and lots of things to do. On her own. She just wanted me to pick out a few places I might want to eat. She did like 99% of the work of planning a vacation.
All of this following last year when, for my birthday, I got to buy a car I’ve been wanting (a manual '97 Honda Prelude) and a new GPU to replace my R9 290.
All of that, and she’s the one that chased me. I wasn’t even in the dating pool. She approached me. Said I was cute. Asked me to help her move into her new apartment eight years ago.
Now I’m in fucking Seattle because this woman loves me so much she plans out entire vacations and concerts for me. I just sat on the balcony with a cup of coffee before she woke up and cried. She is so good to me.
Lmao she barely has any interest in riding in it. She does know how to drive stick. Her first car was a manual '91 Stanza. An interesting one, for sure. She hated it. Her preference is a bigger car with a tall ride height and room for the family and so her daily is a 5.7L Sequoia. She loves loading up her aging parents or her sister and her three kids and running around town. I stan the idea of being only one car on the road instead of two or three. My only gripe about the thing is that it’s thirsty, but she teleworks five days a week so it doesn’t really see much daylight. Now that my Civic is back up and running, that’ll probably be the car for running errands around town.
Her interest is in the total opposite of the Prelude, BUT she says that she loves that it makes me so happy owning and driving it. She just doesn’t care to ride in it.