New Year!

Well, mein Liebe, it's 2010.

I would say "may this year be better than those that came before," but I'll always believe that the years 2001 through 2009 are the best of my life. You would call me looney...and maybe I am...but the years that we shared will always be cherished above all, no matter what the future may hold.

Thank God that I have been able to spend this time with Michael and TJ, or I don't know what I would have done.

It was looking like a dull new year's eve, and so I proposed going out for coffee...only to discover some lame dance party going on at our usual coffee house. So we went to downtown Pittsburgh for First Night after all. We ate some Chinese at this great hole-in-the-wall that the guys frequent, and I got some beautiful shots of the fireworks at midnight. The fireworks only filled half of the space between these two buildings, and it just seemed apt, since there is only one half of us still here on earth. But I like to think that you may have been watching the same show, just from a different vantage point. A better vantage point.

Happy New Year, Sweetest. Please fill my heart with your love and hope throughout the coming months and beyond. I know you would want me to make the most of this year, so please help to inspire me as you always did.

I love you, Dearest. Always.