No Need for Valentine’s

I asked Ruy not to give me flowers for tomorrow. I think there are stages in my life when I need that kind of affirmation but right now I don’t need jewelry or Nixon watches or flowers. Ruy has been making me feel very secure already.

These past few weeks have been extremely difficult. Starting from the death of my cousin to some professional issues…Ruy’s been so supportive through it all.

Two days ago I was stressed about a presentation I had to give on my strategy for my new team. It was extremely hard because I’ve only been in this post for 3 days and coming up with a concrete strategy is difficult. I worked on the presentation at home (imagine I was working instead of spending quality time with Ruy) and spent the night tossing ideas with Ruy.

I woke up the next day to find that Ruy spent the night researching online and found a paper on the strategies for insourcing (my new department is involved in insourcing). Isn’t that awesome? 

So really, who needs flowers when you have a husband like that.