Date Nights Make Your Week!

Wednesday; our typical date night. I am so blessed to be with someone that values keeping the flame in a relationship going just as much as I do. We decided awhile back that we would start doing date nights one night a week. Because my lover is only off two days a week, usually Wednesday and Thursday, we decided to basically go on Wednesdays. We set an entire afternoon and evening aside for just us, outside the house doing something we like to do. Since Valentine's Day we have done dinner and a movie out once a week. In the course of time from February 14th until now, exactly a month, we have seen five movies: Beautiful Creatures, Warm Bodies, Snitch, Jack the Giant Slayer, and Oz: The Great and Powerful. We have eaten at Olive Garden, Undos (twice), Red Lobster and somewhere else but we can't remember. Anyways, the point is these date nights have been so wonderful for our relationship. I know that my love for this man is irrevocable. Just nights like these allow you to enjoy the little things you love about each other.

 

As far as a review for these movies, if anyone is interested in me posting for any particular please let me know and I will be happy to! I liked them all, some more than others. Nonetheless I still enjoy time with my sweetheart as well as indulging in a great fantasy world to help me escape my everyday life.

Speaking of everyday life, I have been in a great deal of pain lately. So nights like these really make me happy. Although it is a little exhausting to keep me going all afternoon and evening out, I still enjoy it and the medicines help me out a bit. The doctors, my mom, my man, my sister, and a few important friends have kept me sane these last few weeks. I never thought that I would be living in a world of pain. Then again I never thought I'd be living in the same town with my mom again, and that means the world to me. I also never thought I'd live through this battle. I also thought I could never have something I cherish above all, true love. And indeed I have it again, in him. 

Short Story: Plaguesis

I wish I knew why I had become human again. Rosy cheeks, warm and supple skin; features that I had not possessed for nearly a century. This gift has been rumored to come to a slight many of my kind. But how? I was seemingly chosen to lie among the few.
No warning preceded my transformation back into a being with a beating heart. No weakening of my powers or a solitary tell tale sign of a fragile existence that I had become once more. I was born human. It could be that Tellus is finally raising up an army against Plaguesis.
Can this be true? Plaguesis has ruled the land for over 125 years. I witnessed when the Darkness covered the mountains, the oceans, and the trees and all of Tellus's beautiful creations fell to servitude at the hands of Plaguesis. He has reeked wide spread panic, chaos, and death; immortal beasts, the Darkness, and even unleashed Hades on what we know as Earth. After Hades' demise from rule with the Olympian Gods, not a single soul ever dreamed he would reign on this plane ever again.
As I begin to put the pieces together, I wonder; if Tellus is slowly succeeding at reclaiming her children, her magnificent creations, perhaps there is a hope after all. The greatest hope we have is that our Earth Mother, Tellus, has reassembled her army; that they have risen once more, the Purus.
The Purus was only a myth; a story of folklore shared among the people for thousands of years. No living mortal or immortal being has ever laid eyes upon the Purus, except for Plaguesis. The fall of him and the Darkness came at the hands of the Purus all those centuries ago.
Those on the run from Plaguesis and his demons would share stories; tales of war, their fight for humanity. As the diseases, famine, and blood shed engulfed the entire countryside; so did the loss of humanity. Immortal beasts reigned and fell senex to Plaguesis. Humans instantaneously transformed into all sorts of dark creatures under Plaguesis's rule.
Meanwhile, only one hope remained. That Tellus was behind my transformation, and soon many, like me, would regain their beating heart and mortality.