it's oh so quiet

this weekend was quiet, blissfully and gorgeously quiet, punctuated only by the occasional honk of geese and the bleatings of the sheep in the meadow outside our window. after the glorious excess of thanksgiving (and if you need any description of that other than that it was fecking FANTASTICALLY DELICIOUS, i simply can't help you), dom and i decamped to the jersey countryside (they apparently have some of that! who knew?) to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the day we met.

if you live in new york (or any other big city, i'd wager), you know that the best gift of all is the gift of peace and quiet, some decompression time to quell the rattle that the city puts in your head after too long. and peace and quiet we had, staying in the library of a restored manor house with our own fireplace and giant feather bed. we slept a lot, and read, and spent lots of time in complete silence, devouring the volumes in our room and just enjoying one another's company. we walked the tiny town, and the next one over, looking at vintage guitars and corsets and antique coffee mugs.

and maybe it sounds boring to you, being out in the middle of nowhere. but now that we're in a band together, and we have active lives of our own on top of rehearsal (and we've been babysitting my sister's dog, whose desire to be walked at 5am has proven to us that we should probably never have children), we haven't had a great deal of time lately to just be dom and shiv, together. and we needed it. not because our relationship is under strain or needs some hard work (because it is neither, thanks), but because it feels so damn good to just slow down and love someone, and be loved.

plus, there was the whole issue of finding hot chocolate, fresh coffee and a freshly-cooled pan of brownies waiting for us when we returned to the inn--marching over the delaware works up an appetite!