Our audio diary

Angela bought me a digital voice recorder for my birthday and we used it for the first time last night. We've been needing a way to take verbal notes during some of our deep conversations and this little gadget it the perfect thing. It would be nice if our brains remembered the highlights of our conversations, but anytime we have a conversation with depth and we ask each other later what that one thing of dire importance was, we always come up empty. We need a better way to store our thoughts. If this forgetfulness is happening now, what are we going to be like when we're eighty? We'll need a gadget with a lot more storage.

We took it with us to church last night so we could record our conversation on the way home. Angela went to a class on relationships alone because I'm committed to co-leading the 20something group, so we had to swap stories about each class afterward. The recorder worked splendidly, even with car noise. When we got home we took it inside to continue recording our conversation, but that turned out to be a mild disaster. We let the dogs out and brushed our teeth and went through that whole routine, then crawled into bed and tried to pick up where we left off, but I was a goner. My eyelids were uncontrollably heavy because it was starting to cut into my six hours of sleep, and I ended up drifting off while Angela was talking. I remember hearing, "Are you falling asleep?" I was perfectly coherent inside my own head even though my eyes were closed and her voice was starting to echo, so to prove my awareness I repeated what I thought she had just finished saying. The next thing I knew she was getting up to shut off the light in surrender and wondering aloud how we were ever going to capture our thoughts before we lost them if we couldn't stay awake long enough to get them out while they're fresh. I must not have repeated correctly. I hope she wasn't saying something from the relationship class about listening skills.

We've had about five hours of quality time alone this week so I feel a little off-center. But the weekend should be better. And Thursdays are always home date nights so I'm excited about that. I'll do a shot of espresso around 5:00 so I won't miss anything.