8:24 AM EST February 1, 2024:
Cows - “I Miss Her Beer”
From the album Old Gold (1989-91)
(1996)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
File under: Amrep
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While you'd think the relationship would have moved at a truly glacial pace, once together, it's only eh....five or six months before Samuels comes back to their flat with an actual honest-to-god engagement ring. Logically, they're living together, they've exchanged words of intentions for this to be a long term relationship, so he figures he should do this the proper human way.
Unfortunately, Amanda balks at the concept of being/engaged/ because what the fuck, Chris, (not counting cryo) I haven't known you for a year yet??? Poor thing assumes her distaste is because he grossly misread their situation and his place in her life. She has to stress to him that it's not him, not the color of his blood ("Amy, it's not really blood,") just that its awfully fast. Its enough to calm him down but he's still embarrassed, and then the horror of having to return the ring occurs to him and--
"Why would you return it?"
"You said--"
"Hold on to it, for a little while." She never wanted to be anyone's wife, anyone's mother, anyone's possession...But if anyone on the planet would understand the hesitation she had with commitment, it would be the man she helped carve company logos out his fingerprints.
"Do you mean it?"
It breaks her heart, the way he's beaming at her like she actually accepted instead of requesting an extension, but his sheer /joy/ is infectious. He's like her, so very dry and to the point, their shared sense of humor is subtle, sarcastic, and often dark--yet she cracks, and she's giggling. Samuels can't laugh: almost no synthetic can by design, it's too complex of a biological process to bother mimicking but she knows if he could, he'd be joining her.
He over thinks how long "a while" is and goes through a monthly crisis, takes to carrying the ring in his coat, but never asking out of fear it hasn't been long enough. Amanda finds it there one day about four months later, while looking for a missing key. Christopher finds her sitting on the bedroom floor, glassy eyed, coat over her knees, twisting the ring around (of course it fits perfectly he probably laser measured her hands)
"If...you want, you can keep it on." Amanda nods slowly, the realization of the 'yes' sinking in belatedly she she has to stand shakily to hug him. Tightly.
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24 years…how time flies.
((tw family death & just some stuff I need to get off my chest))
September is a harsh reminder of that little girl I was all those years ago, learning to live without you and not understanding the concept of death.
I still see you sometimes, even if it’s for a brief second. A whisper in the wind when I think I hear your laugh, your resemblance in a waitress at some random diner, ending up at the Thin Lizzy exhibit at the Rock and Roll museum in another country without knowing it. Singing Wake Me Up When September Ends with my two best friends while holding each other last week at the Green Day show was cathartic, and I know you were there, too.
I love you to the moon and to Saturn. 🖤
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I'm being really Fuckin strong and not doing weed today AAAAUUGGHHHHGGGGGGG
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We went off the rails when we decided to make ethel “spare a melody ma’am” cain the tgirl pop sensation of this website when sophie was RIGHT there
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4:55 PM EDT August 23, 2024:
Cows - "I Miss Her Beer"
From the album Old Gold (1989-91)
(1996)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
File under: Amrep
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