My Boyfriend’s Back!
My husband is a counselor, a soccer coach, a hunter. He practices martial arts and yoga and has just completed a last class for his Master’s Degree. Sometimes during the week, we hardly really see each other. We’re both independent and involved in our pursuits and passions (in my case, sometimes obsessively), which is why I love the weekends. On weekends he saves me from myself.
This past Saturday night, we went contra dancing. We swung and spun, got dizzy and giddy. In between dances, we laughed and socialized with friends. Occasionally to cool down, we sat a song out, plunked oursleves down in chairs along the wall of the Winter Sun dance hall.
“Jim, do you know my husband, Joe?” I asked a friend I was talking to as Joe approached. Jim hadn’t met Joe before. “But I feel like I know him from your blog,” he answered with a smile.
“What? I thought everyone knew Joe!” I blurted out. “He’s out and about much more than I am and knows way more people than I do.” I told Jim how Joe used to run the county’s Recycling Center and our three-way conversation took off from there. But soon we were all back on the dance floor, dosey do-ing, promenading, and swinging our partners and neighbors.
Sunday morning, when Joe and I finally got out of bed, we stumbled into the kitchen for breakfast. I, in my favorite blue terrycloth bathrobe, popped down some toast and broke out in song. “My boyfriend’s back …and you’re going be sorry … hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back!” I sang in my loudest and best do wap. He looked surprised and waited for an explanation.
“I feel great!” I said to him. “It’s like my boyfriend slept over! We went dancing. We stayed in bed all morning. We talked. We kissed. We ate well. I’m so happy I have a good boyfriend!”
He's been gone for such a long time (Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend's back) Now he's back and things'll be fine (Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend's back) … my boyfriend's back ...
Comments
Wow! It sounds like you had a blast! I love the weekends for just the same reason. The post really made me smile. Thank you!
Posted by: Moogie | November 17, 2006 9:48 AM
Tune in next week when Colleen's husband starts calling himself Frank as they explore the boyfriend concept a little bit deeper. heh heh
Posted by: shane | November 17, 2006 9:50 AM
i feel the same way on that rare occasion that my hubby and i go out on a date. it doesn't happen often since we have a young child. i LOVE contra dancing! but i haven't done it since i moved from NC, which was years ago. there's no dances nearby. we used to go dancing in asheville all the time.
Posted by: bluemountainmama | November 17, 2006 11:03 AM
I love boyfriends who come back after a long weeks work. xo
Posted by: Sherry | November 17, 2006 11:37 AM
Asheveille may just be the contra dancing capitol of the country! My son Josh, who lives in Asheville, got me into contra dancing. He was 16 at the time and kept telling me I would LOVE it if I would just try it. I was hesitant becasue of my left/right dyslexia, but I figured that if your 16 year old wants to do something with his mother...she should go for it. I've never been sorry, even though I sometimes need a nudge to remember where I'm going.
Posted by: colleen | November 17, 2006 11:56 AM
tgif girlfriend!
i'll be back late this eve.
Posted by: joeyk | November 17, 2006 11:58 AM
Aw, how sweet is that?! I remember feeling that way when mr. kenju had to travel a lot for work. Now he is here all the time, and.....
well....I don't feel that way quite so much...LOLOL
Posted by: kenju | November 17, 2006 1:52 PM
Love is such a great thing. I am very glad you have it.
Posted by: CountryDew | November 17, 2006 3:39 PM
That's nice, but there are much better songs about GIRLFRENS:
If I were to walk through the Museum of fine arts in Boston
Well first I'd go to the room where they keep the Cezanne
But if I had by my side a girlfriend
then I could look through the paintings
I could look right through them
I'd have found something that I understand
I understand a girl friend
that's a girl
friend
that's G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N
that's a girl friend baby,
that's somethin that I understand
alright
(Girlfriend by Jonathan Richman, over whose oeuvre I am at this point officially in a rut)
Posted by: Rick | November 17, 2006 3:44 PM
Fab.u.lous. Days like that are great!
I raise a toast to you two: Spouses that stay boyfriends or girlfriends are great to celebrate.
Posted by: Pearl | November 17, 2006 4:43 PM
I love that song. I love this post. Just reading it makes me feel good. You're a lucky gal.
Posted by: Karen | November 17, 2006 6:04 PM
I actually remember this song. Even though I was a mere child.
Sounds like weekends are great for you and LOOK! Another one is here!
Posted by: srp | November 17, 2006 11:50 PM
Sounds like the perfect marriage to me - wonderful couple time, with alone time in between (of course I am an introvert. Not everyone seems to like alone time, but I do)
Michele sent me
Posted by: Catherine | November 17, 2006 11:53 PM
How wonderfull What a lovely romantic weekend you had and I hope many many more to come.Take care
Posted by: Jeanette | November 18, 2006 12:40 AM
Hey JoeCol and TomKat are the happiest people these days!
Posted by: Tabor | November 18, 2006 4:03 AM
You've heard of "chic flics"....well this sounds like a "chic post" to me. :)
Thanks for the link Colleen to "contra dancing" because I thought it was some kind of South American folk dance. Really....I have never heard of it. Glad you both had such a grand evening.
Posted by: Alan G | November 18, 2006 7:59 AM
Gotta love these guys of ours!
I love how mine; always so busy himself and lovingly tolerant of my own need for independence (maybe I should spell it this way: indepenDANCE), doesn't make me feel guilty; enough so that I never forget the lyrics.
Posted by: Kathy | November 18, 2006 8:00 AM
You're a lucky couple and I'm glad to see that you cherish the good times. It takes me back....a long way!
Posted by: ginnie | November 18, 2006 9:45 AM
Well that brought a big smile and even a teary eye it was so sweet!
Posted by: Deana | November 18, 2006 3:02 PM
Life gets like that sometimes...too hectic to just hangout like we all did when just dating. Kinda nice though! We should do that more often. It's too easy to just keep trucking at 90 mph!
Posted by: Ruth | November 18, 2006 5:32 PM
Yahoo, that he's finished his Masters! Congrats! A bit more time together perhaps?!!!
Posted by: Ruth | November 18, 2006 5:42 PM
I can relate to that feeling. Most days we barely pass in the kitchen because he is running here or there and i'm busy with kids..
Posted by: Ivy | November 19, 2006 2:53 AM
Great entry....very uplifting and sounds like you both had a great time. I'd never heard of contra dancing either, till I met you and heard you mention it here.
Posted by: Terri | November 21, 2006 9:33 PM