My husband and I are “late-comers” to the exciting and
extremely popular TV series, “Game of Thrones.” Over the past few years that it’s
been on TV, we’ve both separately and unknowingly tried to watch an episode or
two and were both left with the idea that it really seemed like a great show,
but we had no clue what was going on. Naturally, we just didn’t try to watch it
again.
The fact of the matter is that this is a series that you really
must see from the very beginning in
order to understand it all. (Cautionary note here: This is most definitely a ‘Rated
R’ series.)
Because of recent events in our lives (which I will refer
to later), my husband and I decided last Spring to watch the series together beginning
with Episode One to try to catch up…and catch up we did! In fact, we caught up
and are now among those with “game-of-thrones-withdrawal syndrome!” Seriously,
we caught up during the last season and found ourselves having to wait from
week to week to see what happened next just like everyone else. That was not
fun.
Basically, when we were “catching up,” we would find
ourselves watching two or more episodes at a time, and sometimes (even late at
night) would make the decision to watch “just one more!” The series is that
good.
We were so immersed in the show that I began calling my
husband, “Moon of my life… My sun and my stars.” This is a line that one of the
leading actresses called her husband. At one time I started calling him “My
Lion,” but when “what’s-her-name” betrayed “what’s-his-name” (I’ll not give
away the plot here), I dropped that one like a hot potato!
My husband and I have always had pet names for each
other, so my calling him these things really isn’t as strange as it might seem
to others. He calls me his “Angel,” and also, lovingly, his “Princess PITA” –
an acronym that I just won’t go into at this point. (But you might be able to
figure that one out fairly easily!)
The reason we began watching this series together is
because my husband has developed a health issue that may stay the
same for a while, may advance slowly, or may advance rapidly. We just
really don’t know.
What we do know is that we are spending much more time
together - quality time that is anxiously wanted by each of us. None of us ever
knows what tomorrow will bring.
I’m writing about this in my Writing Blog because this is
the place that I chose to write down my “thoughts on life, family, and a whole
bunch of other stuff.”
These are my thoughts right now:
“Moon of my life…My sun and my stars.” How will I live
when those glorious and wondrously glowing lights begin to flicker out and finally dim forever?
@2014 Copyright by Carla Love Maitland
