A Friendly Musical Visit Every Day

I've had a couple of horrible migraine days lately. My migraines are triggered largely by changes in the weather, but I don't think staying up half the night to clean the house and get some work done helped. The funny (not actually funny) thing is that I stayed up so late to work because I knew my partner would be driving into the nearest city to do a big grocery shop. He said he could do it himself because he didn't want to take me away from all the work I'm catching up on. He lives in the tiniest town. There's only one food store here and it is miniscule.  Because of his cancer treatments and us spending so much time at my place this summer, we haven't stocked up on food at his place in months. So I wanted to come. I wanted to buy tart shells.  Last weekend I bought local fruit from a farmer here in town (so, yes, there are alternatives to the tiny food store) and I'd prepared tart fillings with these beautiful fruits. I'd even gone so far as to mak...

 My partner gets really bad cramps that wake him out of sleep sometimes. When he wakes up, I wake up--because he screams. All the neighbours in our building probably wake up too.   Last night, when my partner woke with a cramp, he jumped out of bed, screaming, and immediately grabbed my hand. He'd never done that before. His bedroom is extremely dark at night. I can see almost nothing. And yet my partner didn't swipe around the bed searching for my hand. He reached across the bed and found my hand instantly. When I asked him the next morning how he'd done that, he said he just knew where my hand was. I cried when he squeezed my hand, not because he was hurting me, but because I was so deeply touched that he sought my help in that way. My partner is the kind of person who always wants to solve his own problems. I ask him if I can help with whatever issue he's having, and he says no, he'll handle it himself. I understand. I'm the same way. That's why it touche...