The best it can be

"My love language is trying," I find myself saying. Mis en place. I made a new pine needle coaster when I realized a boy was coming over for lunch one day and I had only one for myself. He didn't stay long. I looked at the pine cone coaster foolishly around that time. Such gaudy excess. You eat at the table, then move to the couch. Then you are watching a movie and not talking. I haven't got to that stage. We give up before then. Before a show can begin.