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#reverb10: Dec 14 – Appreciate
Dec 14, 2010
December 14 – Appreciate. What’s the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it? (Author: Victoria Klein)
You know it’s funny, I was actually thinking about typing up a blog post about this yesterday before I even saw this topic, but decided I would wait and low and behold it happened to come across. Too bad I’m not this good with lotto numbers! 
The one thing that I have come to appreciate most in the past year is Robby’s understanding. I blogged about something like this, but there is one thing that I appreciate so much about Robby which he probably has no idea about but still something I felt I needed to document.
I appreciate that he understands [or at least tries to understand] how important my interests [especially online interests] are to me.
When the world web wide suddenly became the thing and I started to grow interested [particularly in graphic and web design] I got very little support from my father1. He didn’t understand it and NEVER took the time to understand and because of that we had many a fight about my being on the internet all the time2.
It hurt a lot and probably more than he ever knew or knows but I counted the days until I could leave the nest so I didn’t constantly have someone breathing down my neck about my interests.
Robby is completely different from my father3. He is supportive and caring and understanding. I buy things for giveaways4 on my blog or on my board and he never protests or makes a big fess about it. He’s actually very understanding and knows that these things are important to me and thus ultimately important to him. Lastly, he understands that my friends online aren’t just nobodies who don’t exist and can’t really be my friends. He understands and accepts their importance to me and thus makes them important to him and I love him for it.
So yes, I appreciate his understanding, hell I appreciate him and to show my gratitude I step back every once and awhile and bask in how lucky I am to have a husband who accepts and understands me so fully– there are few people who have that and I’m damn lucky to be among them.
I love you, baby.
1. And frankly if I’m honest, still doesn’t understand.
2. And I wasn’t on that often.
3. I guess not all girls marry men that remind them of their father.
4. Albet it usually on sale, but still.
