Hi everyone!
I'm Ian and my partner's name is Sukie (who I usually refer to as Hisselfness). We are 50 and 54 years old (I'm the young one) and this year we are celebrating 19 years of being together. (If you can call it celebrating. I often have often found myself thinking that 19 years ago, had I known the impact the words, "wanna come back to my place," would have on my life, I might have thought more carefully before I spoke).
Seriously, it has been a fantastic 19 years together that have seemed only as long an afternoon and we still, after all this time are capable of surprising each other.
Enough with the mush!
We live in Chicago, on the northside (with the El running literally behind our house) with our 3 Maltese (dogs not falcons) Jane Austin, Truman Capote and Tallulah Bankhead.
I am a corporate middle management drudge and Hisselfness is a freelance writer. He is somewhat of a personality in the Chicago community and for years wrote a Chicago gay oral history column. He is currently finishing up a book on Chicago gay history, and writes a weekly comdy column (
http://www.chicagofreepress.com/freetime/sukiedelacroix/index.html) (please keep in mind this is for grown up humor)
When I'm not being a corporate drudge, I am working on the board of my synagogue and am responsible for much of the technology and website (I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my own domain ozhasspoken.com, so if anyone has any ideas, let me know).
Hisselfness and I love WDW, because it is the only place that we ever truly relax (we call it our adult Ritalin).
We used to go down every 18 months but since we have become DVC owners, we seem to be going down more often.
Our next big trip is planned for December. I have convinced Hisselfness to go on a 4 night
DCL cruise (5 years of whining helped), followed by 8 nights in WDW (split into 4 nights at BWV and 4 nights at VWL).
We have more recently been going to WDW with our best friend Don, who lives in the upstairs apartment in our cosy 2 family house.
I think that's it ... for now.