Monday, January 15, 1945 [38] Bunny Darling; It’s so good to be with you again and to see you looking so very beautiful. I swear, there’s an aura of beauty which surrounds you constantly and which you wear as beautifully as though you were a real angel. Always stay that beautiful for me will you Darling. I love you so just as you are now. Another long day has gone by since I wrote to you last. Another day less to be separated from you thank god. That’s the best way to think of it because if I ever allow myself to think that it is one more day since I have seen you last I get a real blue Monday feeling and miss you even more than I normally do. I’m just living for the day when there will no longer be any question of missing you and of writing you letters to let you know how very much I love you, the day when you’ll be right there at my side always to have, to hold, and to love. I haven’t don’t a thing today. Last night I worked for a while typing out indorsements again. That’s damned good practise [sic] and I’m getting to be quite good at it. Soon we’ll have to start in on payrolls. That will be quite a job but shouldn’t last more than a week or two. That’s where I’ll really have to be careful about mistakes because there aren’t supposed to be any on that stuff. Hoppy and Ludwig came over to the office to see me last night. Ludwig is still working at the Post Office and Hop has, as yet, not gotten himself put on special duty. He has to pull detail and go out on training every day. I’m glad I don’t have to do that. As it is now I have all day to myself and just work nights. 2. In one of your letters you told me you had just come back from a funeral but, as I had not received the preceding letters, I did not know whose funeral it was. In my last letter from Mom she told me that your uncle had died. I don’t know yet which uncle it was but I am quite sorry to hear it. Have you heard from Tom lately? I imagine he’s still grumbling about his assignment as a ‘checker’. That amuses me, the term I mean. It reminds me of a definition I heard yesterday. It is the definition of a girdle which is a “grinder binder”. The grinder originating from the term “a grind” which is burley cue parlance precedes “a bump”. If you get what I mean, and I’m not too sure you do. I still have not [scratched out word] given up hope of ultimately catching up with Arthur even though I am starting to despair of ever being assigned to an outfit. I think my chances of an assignment are about equal to his chances of getting in on the rotation plan. This rotation plan has developed into t ahold grail sort of thing which everybody is in quest of, but, which is so wrath like that it escapes everyone. In place of rotation they are offering some of the fellows thirty day furloughs. Arthur may end up taking that instead of [scratched out word] waiting for rotation. I do hope I can see him soon and that soon after that he can return to the States. I also hope that soon after that I shall be allowed to return to the States and to your loving arms. Mmmm! Mmmm! You are so very nice and sweet and I love you so much. The transcription of Ludwig’s extracts on the technique of conjugal love has finally been accomplished. It was quite a job to write all of it in long hand. Some day when I have a typewriter and a lot of 3. time on my hands I’ll have type the whole thing up. It is a very useful thing to have, no fooling, and give a lot of very good, straight from the shoulder advice, dispelling a lot of vague or false notions most people have formed on this subject. I think it should be made compulsory reading for anyone getting married. It may interest you to know that measure up to the standards set up in the book for the kind of person who makes the ideal wife, you came through with flying colors. You live up to every one of the specifications. Congratulate me! I am the husband of a fine 120 pound wife! Ain’t [sic] it wonderful, my sweet little nonpareil? In stacking my letters I ran across the silverware pattern you sent me. The more I look at it, the better I like it. I’m glad we decided on this pattern instead of Lyric. The Lyric is nice but not as nice as what we have. We’re going to have a very nice start on our housekeeping if we have all our silverware and if your grandmother gives us her china. Those are two quote expensive items of our household furnishings. After we get our silverware we can start in on some other small items that you find from time to time and think would be nice for the house. I have not yet been paid, but when I am paid I’ll send you enough money to get a couple of place settings at least. Don’t forget to keep it polished nicely until I get home. You know, Darling, I think that life together is going to be the most wonderful thing in the whole world. There’s no one I’d rather spend the rest of my life with. This noon we had some fresh meat. It’s quite a luxury don’t you know. Our cooks fixed it up very appetizingly. It was cooked in a thick white sauce. With it we had some green beans cooked in tomato juice with 4. pork cubes added. It sounds rather weird but is really quite tasty. This ink I am using is some Aussie ink. I finally despaired of ever getting any American ink so I filled the pen with this Aussie stuff. The pen hasn’t yet started to dissolve so I guess maybe it will work out all right. I hope so because it’s a question of using this or not writing and I’ll be damned if I’ll let anything like this stop me from writing to you. This ink reaches you by courtesy of Edwin Lysman, one of the boys I went to Clerk’s School with. Thank the nice man Bunny. That’s a nice girl. Here’s a big kiss for you. One of the fellows in the tent made himself a hula skirt from some parachute nylon separated into small strands. It’s quite a gaudy pink affair. Every one [sic] is trying it and the accompanying bra, which he also made, on. This place looks like the beach at Waikiki. The strands are rather sparse though and if his girl friend, the ultimate recipient of the skirt, wears it I’m afraid it will afford little protection against anything including eyes. Another fellow has some tool which I shall endeavor to borrow to finish the coin bracelet I started. My only expenditure of effort has been the copying of that manuscript. It is entitled “Extracts From ‘Sane Life and Living’”. You may have a copy of “Sane Life and Living” in the libe [sic] at school. If so you can read it now instead of awaiting my triumphant return from the wars. I don’t think I have to work tonight. It is my regular night off but I’ll report there anyway to see what is on. Guess I’ll go to the show with Hoppy and Ludwig tonight. I don’t know what’s on but it’s the only thing there is to do. 5. Our water supply was restored this morning so I took a very refreshing shower to start eh day right. I’m glad I didn’t wait till this afternoon because the water system is all shot again and once more there are no showers. In the morning when everyone is out on training there’s plenty of room in there. I don’t care very much for crowded shower rooms. By the way do you prefer a shower or bath for the house. I guess a combination is best but I think that they should be made differently so the water doesn’t splash all over the devil. I’ll have to go to work on an idea. About that house I’m designing. I’ve hit a snag and have been trying to iron it out a little before I send you the plans. There are quite a few obvious flaws in the planning of the house but maybe you’ll have some ideas on improving it so these flaws may be overcome. I’ll finish it up and send it to you tomorrow flaws or not and will await your suggestions. It’s just an idea for a house and I’ll do some others so you don’t have to think that’s just exactly what I want. It’s almost time to eat now so I’ll give you a kiss and leave you for the time being.