Julia lay sleeping soundly, her body comfortably intertwined with my own. Yeah… It was early, being about 4:45 AM. But the moment was priceless.
It’s amazing to me at times how the simple things, like watching your spouse sleep, can bring you the most peace. And… This morning… Yeah… It was most certainly peaceful just watching Julia and feeling her total contentment.
When she finally did wake, Julia and I hit the spin bikes, together, her commenting at one point, “It feels good to be doing this again with you. I missed it.”
Julia then said quickly, “It’s not a dig, Babe. I’m glad to see you’re up for this kind of thing again. That’s all,” reaching over and gently brushing my arm as she finished with a placating hand.
I nodded as I stepped up the pace a bit in accordance with the soundtrack we were listening to. Working out with Julia is never a competition, which she’s assured me she’d lose in spades if it ever did become one. I shook my head when she told me this outright one day. But Julia laughed saying, “You’re just way too modest sometimes. You are unusually strong for your build and obviously your age has only served as an enhancement. You’re vintage vino, Love. You just keep getting stronger and my girlfriends are green with envy.”
Even this morning, Julia was rather complementary, saying, “You never lost it. I can tell just from watching you. You haven’t lost any of the gains that you’ve made since we started doing this together.”
I smiled and said playfully, “And yet… I’m pretty sure that you’d kick my ass in a marathon.” Julia came over and gave me a hug as she spoke, giggling, “Only because we couldn’t find you a sighted guide fast enough. No, Babe. Don’t pull away from me. I really don’t mind the sweat,” Julia breathed as she finished.
“In fact, I’m kind of feeling turned on right now. Does that give you any ideas?” Julia asked slyly. We then looked at each other for a moment before… Well… It was raw in an animalistic sort of way, yet totally satisfying.
We then hit the shower together, before getting started, running our respective businesses. I did get a call from Kelly at one point in the afternoon, asking if she and Tom could stop by for a few minutes. “Anything to please the FBI,” I responded, agreeing to see them at 2:00 PM.
As it turned out, they were just stopping by to check in and didn’t mind that I was fixing a client’s downed WordPress site as we spoke. Julia stuck her head in to say hello after the virtual session she had with a client was over.
All in all… Yeah… It was a productive yet peaceful Monday.