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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 2002)
apiil 5. 2QÛ2 'J u s t m it HUMOR ..............▼.............. vflatHj ffeam Çmwm & Hooglie-mooglie Custom design arrangements for ail occasions... Spring makes the sap flow Full service Florist serving the entire Portland metro area for 20 years (5 0 3 ) 6 5 3 -8 4 4 4 w w w .m aryjean sf1 o w e rs .co m 1 3 8 2 2 S.E. O a tfie ld Rd. • M ilw aukee, OR 9 7 2 2 2 t’s that fertile time of year when nature draws us out of our wintry cocoons, awakens us with perfume of blooming daphne and robins’ serenade and makes us want to linger in the fnoming light when we step out to get the newspaper, forgetting for one sweet moment that we have no pants on. Spring is here. Sweetie and 1 feel love in the air, hut we’ve been together 14 years and tend not to get quite as swept away as new lovers do. Unless by swept away you mean planning our weekend around gutter cleaning, reorganizing the garage and, hubba-hubha, washing the car. Meanwhile, people all around us are falling in love. Two very close friends of ours fell hard. Intoxicated with sunshine and the pink petals of flowering plums, they have become like the trees. Their sap is flowing. After a long dry spell, they started dating and uncharacteristically cast caution to the wind. They dove in head first— literally, as far as we know. We haven’t seen much of them lately. I caught a glimpse of one the other night, and she was glowing. O r that just might have been the light shim mering on her unwashed face. She did Uxtk happy. She also looked like she hadn’t slept since Rosie came out. W hen pheromones kick in, new lovers tend to forget their other connec tions. Sweetie and 1 get an occa sional phone call or e-mail from our enamored friends when they come up for air. They’re in that corny, hm glie- mcx>glie stage where everything feels all shiny and new. Like a vir-ir-inir-gen. “She is so sweet! I never knew I could feel so loved! This is it!” They’re saying all those gixify things new lovers like to think they’ll he saying about each other for the rest of their lives. Sometimes people figure out how to hang onto feeling in love. Sweetie and 1 are still in love, usually. But sometimes we get caught up doing taxes, pruning roses and worrying about making the house payment. It’s easy to get distracted by our own little problems, like weatherizing and who do we know who can help us rewire the smoke alarms we ripped, still beeping, out of the ceiling after last winter’s power outage. We forget to prioritize love. But because we have these friends who are in the hot and juicy thrix;s of new romance, we have a clear reminder close at hand, so to speak. Their steamy love affair prompts us to set aside habitual worries and remember how lucky we are to have each other. We have found unflagging loyalty and devotion. A nd I’m not just talking about our dog, either. I mean, we were newly in love once. W h at ever it was that drew us to each other then is still there now. M o v in g P a c k in g I PR Locally Owned & Specializing in Oregon & Washington j Full Time Professional Employees We just have to remember to see each other with loving eyes instead of that “it’s your turn to take out the recycling” look. Luckily, our lovebird friends remind us to commit random acts of whoopee. These two women— who have to remain nameless now that I’m telling you all this— inadvertently have inspired certain behavior in our, shall we say, marriage bed. “Let’s pre tend we've just started falling in love,” I sug gested last night. Hoo-wee, that got us going. Sweetie set aside the crossword puzzle, I took off my wrist brace, and we turned on a Joan A rm atrading CD. Even the cats went into the other room. W e said all kinds of hooglie-mooglie things to each other. W e giggled, we sighed. We forgot all about her knee injury and my ten d o n itis. N either of us m en tioned the moss on the roof or the crum bling bathtub grout. We focused on each other like a couple of newly weds— or newly- domestic-part nered or newly- civilly-unioned or whatever. W hat an anti dote to lesbian bed death! Being close to someone else’s romance heated us up like a microwave pizza. The question is: Will it stay gooey? Will this couple stay in love? O r will they get dis tracted by all the worries of nesting and lose their desire for each other? Will one of them fly home one night and say, “1 have schlepped more than my share of worms, and now I have to organize a bunch of loose feathers and twigs” and fly away? I hope our friends make it. I hope they will find a way to renew their love with the seasons. I hope every spring they’ll be inspired by other people’s budding romance. It works for us. This morning Sweetie and I both stepped outside to get the paper. We heard the chickadee’s winsome call and smelled the perfume of narcissi. 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