i do, of course, have the best girlfriend ever. she came over to have lunch with me before her shift and we spent a good fifteen minutes just kissing. it's been, ohmygawd, three days since we've seen each other. we must engage in copious smooching. yeah.

anyways, i also showed her all the inconsequential new things in my house (new duvet cover, clean kitchen, flowers, yadda yadda) and she presented me with a box of extra special brownie mix and made me promise we'd make them on Friday night. (like i needed any coaxing in that direction.) then we headed out to lunch. went to Molinari's, the absolute best italian deli west of the Jersey Turnpike. i realized, while standing in line and ogling all the yummy italian products, that the gifts my uncle had sent me were all from there. how did he know?

it was pretty crowded in there and we waited for a while, eventually getting my favorite guy to help us. he joked around with both of us, told me not to get mustard on my sandwich ("not with prosciutto, no no."), called Corinne "sweetie", told me he liked looking at her at lot better than me, didn't grumble in the slightest when i made him go into the back twice for fresh tortellinis and a jar of meat sauce, insisted on giving her the change and me the heavy sacks of food, and wished us on our way. our way being into the downpour. we had left a bright and sunny day when we'd walked in but the skies were playing an immortal game of volleyball and sun was quickly replaced with torrential downpour which was quickly replaced with sun and so on. we ran to the car and ate our deliciousness with the windows fogged up and the drops beating down on us. we kissed a little more because we could and then i dropped her back off at her car.

i'll be seeing her again tonight, hopefully just before midnight and just after her shift. i plan on kissing her once or twice or a hundred times more then.