Stardust

On our first dinner date, Ed brought along a book. He didn't say anything about it, just set it off to the side of our table. I was curious why he had it. However, he never said a word as to why it was there on the table. My mind raced with possibilities. Finally, I couldn't contain my curiosity anymore. I said "Why'd you bring that book, Ed? Did you think that if the conversation lulled you might be able to eek out a chapter or two of good reading? Did you think I'd be that boring?" [Admittedly, even for a librarian such as myself, it seemed a bad sign if a date brought along a book to the first dinner date!] Ed's response stunned me. He looked surprised by my wild postulations and quickly explained that he'd taken the book from his personal collection and brought it along because he knew that I liked sci-fi/fantasy and thought that I'd really enjoy this book (one of his favorites). He wanted to loan it to me. I was STUNNED. Huh. Imagine a man willing to loan out his personal copy of a favorite book ON THE FIRST TRUE DATE (we'd had one previous meeting at a local Borders bookstore). WOW. It was one of the first signs that my Edward was willing to trust and open his life to someone.

He was right, I LOVED the book. We were both delighted when we heard that it was being made into a movie with a pretty stellar cast. We arranged a "date night" surrounding the movie this past Saturday. Ed made reservations at the same restaurant (the Weber Grill in Schaumburg--also the site of our rehearsal dinner) and we stopped on our way there to get tickets to the evening showing of Stardust. When we went into the restaurant, Ed carried a plastic bag with him but wouldn't tell me what was in it. During the dinner, he gave me a gorgeous illustrated version of Stardust (awwwwww how romantic). Then we went to the movie (which was AWESOME). Once we got home, we sat on the couch and discussed how the movie differed from the book and we took turns finding the parts that differed, reading them out-loud to one another. Awwwww.....let me tell you, THAT is the kind of activity that makes this little librarian's heart go pitter-pat! He is such an incredibly thoughtful man. And me? Well, I'm the luckiest woman in the world.