Wind beneath my wings

Spent the weekend playing housewife to the husband who was supposed to be doing his coursework. 

Evidently from his previous post.. he wasn't.

We had a noodles weekend because I had some rather strange cravings. We went to the Chinese supermarket because I wanted to eat 'Tai Lok Meen' (which I am supposed to be intolerant to, I can't eat round noodles, they make me nauseous - but this is a story for another day)

So we bought those fat round noodles and braised it with a load of dark soya sauce and added some heart attack inducing pork fat cracklings.. this really isn't a dish for the health concious

As we were also making Char Koay Kak for the weekend, I had some leftover mouli (white radish) and with chicken carcass in the freezer, made mouli soup for the lucky man.

Apparently when my mum was pregnant with me, she ate a lot of Tai Lok Meen.. it was the only thing she wanted and had large plates of it every night..

So you would understand that I cringed with fear when I started craving it for no reason (I've actually never really eaten it before, I stole some from Uncle Mike's plate a few months ago when he ordered it in a restaurant).

Of course you'd expect the husband to panic as well, but I think he's already immuned to my strange, irregular cravings. I don't think I'm pregnant.. a little windy and bloated from the mouli soup, yes, pregnant, probably not.

And no, it's not that we don't want kids, it's just that at this time and with this space, it is going to be near impossible to raise children without killing and stretching ourselves. Plus, I want to have a career before ditching it all for the screaming, probably ungrateful monsters.

We watched a really old movie through the weekend - Beaches, starring Bette Midler.

It was a good show, very emotional and got us both crying our eyes out.

I never realised that the song 'Wind beneath my wings' came from this movie, it always used to irritate me how my dad kept going 'did you ever know that you're my HEEEEEEEEEEEEEerooooooooooooooo????'

Apart from all that crooning, it is a very meaningful song. I guess in any relationship, be it friendship or a love relationship, there is always one person in front and the other behind working together to bring things together for each other.

There will be arguments, quarrels, tears but to have that one loyal person stick by you is  really an honour.

In my case, I will always have wind beneath my wings, courtesy of the windy husband.