Another little gem! I love reading from Jim's point of view.

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This chapter gets me every time. Excuse me while I grab a tissue...

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So heartwarming, Danielle.  Yet another impossibly perfect vignette.   It's fleeting, the hours of the day, the days of the week and the weeks of the year. *sigh* So true.  I love the images you create and the thought that they honor this anniversary each year.  A life without this, a night ending any other way other than this, it's unfathomable.  As always, well done, my friend.

Thank you for this wonderful series, fleshing out each episode from Jim and Pam's point of view. Hope you'll do this for Season 9 (yea!) too.

OMG how did I miss this when you first updated it? That was so good, like, just the thought of Jim being dorky and writing a poem like that makes my heart want to explode with joy lol. These are seriously amazing. If you could win an award for best fanfic, you'd win. This series makes my week each time you update x

Author's Response: LOL I updated this a few hours before we all met Jenna :) I knew you'd like it! Aw, award for best fanfic - that's so cute, thanks. Does it look like a Dundie? LOL Thanks so much for all of the support! huggie hugs!

Glad you covered all the jokes that Pam swung at Jim :). And as usual loved the Jam love. I've noticed you write them as the perfect American Family and they have a very traditional relationship (Jim as head of the house). Regardless of what people think its very sweet. Nice reflection on women owning to many shoes too lol. As always well done, later.

Author's Response: Thanks! It was sort of a two-for-one chapter, since I couldn't come up with anything really meaningful for Angry Andy, I figured I'd stick it all in this one. I'm a traditionalist, and I think that this couple in particular would be more of the traditional American family - happy to see that you like that about them. Thanks for the feedback, as always, it's very much appreciated! :)

P.S. I really miss having a PC. It would be much easier for me to leave the epic review this deserves.

Author's Response: Aw, thanks, that really means more to me than you know. Thank you :)

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Hi Danielle... I'm sorry I haven't been reviewing. I'm still out here, still reading and enjoying SO much. I've just been really very ill and don't have the concentration to leave the reviews I like to leave at this time. This story continues to be absolutely aesome. I love your imagination as you come up with the scenerios of the things that happened before or after a particular episode and you always make them absolutely believable. I always feel that things actually did happen that way and I also can always see that you writing is of such quality that it feels like what you write could actually be an episode. Your writing truly does continue to be smazing!

Thank you SO much for first continuing to write and then also for really working to keep this place going. It's so so sad when it goes SO long between stories/updates. Recently when it went almost a month I was so sad and couldn't help but wondered if they had shut it down to new stories. I'm SO SO thankful that they didn't. Being ill, MTT and fanfiction have become a very important part of my life. I have to spend way too much in bed in awful pain and believe me, fanfiction helps me sometimes to forget, even if only a little, maybe takes the edge off enough for me to get lost in a story and give my medication time to take effect and start working to dull the pain a little. ANyhow, thank you for encouraging these authors. There are some that I want to come back and finish stories that are hanging out there unfinished. Before I say any more on that, let me thank you for ALWAYS finishing the stories you start. I admit that I find it frustrating to get wrapped up in an unfinished story BUT I find it far more frustrating to find an author has a pattern of starting stories and then not finishing them and going on to a different story. Some stories that aren't TOO old that I would LOVE to see the authors come back and add to them/finish them are (I'm listing some just in case the authors happen to read this they can see there are readers that very much want more) Set Fire to the Rain, The 4th Wall, Acquisition, I Heart Pickles, Accidentally In Love, Layover, Cardiac Care, Is it Fate or Coincidence and The Arrow. I know there are more but these are a few that hopfully the authors can find it in their hearts to return to. THe first few I mentioned are the ones that I am VERY anxious to have continued/finished! So PLEASE, ANY author out there with an unfinished story please PLEASE come back and finish it!

Oh and Danielle, as far as ideas for other stories... this may sound REALLY stupid to you so feel free to tell me it's an awful idea or to take a flying leap or just ignore it. It kinda intriques me... well, I have two, one more defined than the other. The first starts out cannon and then would veer UA, the other would pretty much just be UA. So actually I'll start with the least defined one... in this it's season 3 I'm thinking though I suppose maybe it would work somhow as season 2, I like it as season 3, Jim is currently with Karen though he knows it's not going to last and his heart still belongs to Pam but he's ignoring her pretty much completely. Anyhow, Pam gets into some kind of a very serious accident and Jim realizes that he has no choice but to be there. I don't know what the accident would be, car accident has been done so I'm thinking not that but something where Jim goes to the hospital and won't leave with Pam there like that. Through this he has to admit his feelings are strong as ever and he learns of her feelings.

So the other, more defined idea is this... it starts Suring Back from Vsacation when Dwight finds Pam crying over Jim (though he doesn't know that's why at the time) and he comforts her. My idea pretty much is that Pam doesn't really have friends at this point to lean on. The friends she had were hers AND Roys and stayed loyal to Roy or were Roy's family or his friend's girlfriends so when Pam left Roy she lost all her friends in all that. So Dwight sees how miserable Pam is and he starts understanding that she doesn't really have friends to lean on and he starts being there for her and a strong friendship (TOTALLY NOT romantic!!) begins to develop. The start having lunch together, in and out of the office and Jim starts to see this bond between Pam and Dwight and he is trying to figure out what is going on. (The stuff with Pam and Dwight, lunches and maybe going to see movies and stuff can involve Angela or not depending on what you want to do with it. Through all of this, maybe Dwight is saying things, planting seeds with Jim because Dwight comes to realize how deeply Pam loves Jim so he starts making comments, just small seemingly innocent ones that Jim has to puzzle together on his own, and Jim comes to realize just how lonely and unhappy Pam's life has been since he left Pam and Pam left Roy. Also, Jim starts to understand what a really awful place he put Pam in on Casino Night and the price she paid after he took her life and basically tore it apart and then left, leaving her alone and without a best friend as she went through the toughest time in her life. I just really want to see a strong friendship between Pam and Dwight where Dwight really helps her with Jim and Jim taking responsibility rather than being the victim of Casino Night.

I Guess a third idea would have Pam leaving DM after Roy's attack on Jim and Jim turning so cold on her. She leaves without Anyone but Toby and/or Micheal knowing she is leaving. Jim realizes what he has done and the fact that he still loves her and doesn't want to live without her. No one wants to give him information to help him find her but he is determined that he will. During at least part of the time he is realizing these things/searching for Pam he is still with Karen. The only thing is, he's constantly breaking dates and blowing her off because he knows that his relationship with Karen, which he is well aware is not based on love but on fear, so it all makes him feel guilty because he knows had he not been throwing Karen in Pam's face, Pam wouldn't have left. He maybe tries at different times to break up with Karen but she does different things to avoid break up talk though he does eventually break up with her. It's at some point after the break up that he starts making headway in his search for Pam.

OH... dorry... one more idea, during season 3 Pam does the same thing Jim is doing, gets a boyfriend to try to move on. Jim is crazy jealous especially since her boyfriend is a great catch. Good looking, good job, going somewhere in life. He isn't able to have the smug feeling of knowing he would be better for Pam like he did with Roy. This guy coomes to the office a few times to get her for lunch or pick her up at the end of the day and everyong there (except Jim) is crazy about him and so happy for Pam. Karen is just happy Pam has a boyfriend and maybe kinda likes Pam's guy. Anyhow, the boyfriend of course has one fatal flaw, the same basic principal as Karen's major flaw, he isn't Jim so in the long run it just isn't going to work. You can work this any way you want but of course eventually they are going to both realize they won't be happy without each other.

I'm done. Sorry fror rambling. I wrote so much I've wrks myself into terrible pain spasms and they'r about killing me right now, but I DID have fun thinking f ideas. I hope maybe you can find something useful and we'll see a new AWESOME story from one of my two favorite authors! (You and Dedeen tie for my VERY favorite not just on this site but anywhere!) Thank you again for your encouragement to others to write! Would love to see the stories get moving. Maybe someday I'll actually break down and post one of my own! Take care and keep up the AWESOME work Danielle! *hugs* XO Tina

Author's Response: Thank you so much for those ideas, Tina! I'll see what I can work out for the series and will credit you if I can get these ideas off the ground. :) It's so nice to hear from you, and I really appreciate this review and the lovely complement, I'm so honored that you think I'm as good as Dedeen. That means a lot to me. I'm really happy you're liking these one shots, it's been fun writing them and with the lack of Jim and Pam this season, it's really helped me stay in tune with them. I have a big idea for a finale to this, so I hope you'll like it once it's posted. Thank you for being so encouraging and for these great ideas! Hope you're feeling a little better :)

It's been dead around here, so I was extra excited to see this :) A nice reflection on what he has been through and who he is now. I loved the image of him sitting there with Cece and Philip. So sweet. Same with them all sitting as a family as their babies fell asleep. Loved it. Thanks for keeping this going.

Author's Response: It has been really quiet here, but thanks to YOU I think it'll pick up... though hopefully others will join in soon, something sparked my creative juices though and I've got a ton of new ideas. I can't thank you enough for that. I really do love the image of him sitting with the kids too like that, just hanging out. I'm sure I'm going to have to get them out of the house eventually, but it's tough with these particular one shots, because it's always after work. I think once I get the newer stuff written, they'll actually be outside of the house breathing fresh air. Thank you so much for everything, really. :)

I loved it. I, too,felt that Jim connected with Nelly's broken heart -- and that it had a big effect on him. You caught the feelings that must have affected Jim, and of course Pam was there to give unwitting comfort as she usually does. Thanks for continuing this story.

Author's Response: Thank you so much. I thought the same thing by Jim's expression so I figured I'd go with it, hoping it wouldn't be redundant. I think even when they're not outright saying what's on their minds, they still know when something's bugging the other. Thanks for reading and reviewing, I really appreciate it! :)

Thank you for mentioning her nap. I know it bothered me that she gave in to Nelly. Whether it bothered Jim or not I can't say from the episode. I don't for a minute think that it would end up being a big deal between them. But I do believe he could be upset about it. And yes sometimes the conversation takes a back seat to a less verbose (shall we say?) apology :p

Author's Response: It bothered me a lot that she gave into Nelly. I wish she'd have been stronger in resisting, but I thought maybe she was afraid of losing her job? So I went with it. Most of the time, I feel like I'm addressing my own concerns with my own one shots lol I'm glad you enjoyed this, and yeah, sometimes you don't need words to apologize ;) heh Thanks so much!

I loved in your story how Pam can make Jim's anger melt away. Your characterizations are so believable -- such wonderful extensions of what I see on the show -- like an after-party -- Pam and Jim after the show. :-)

Author's Response: LOL! I love the Pam and Jim after the show stuff, and I really had no idea what else to do do with Get the Girl... so I figured why not go with this. Glad you liked it! :) Thanks so much for the lovely compliment :)

I continue to enjoy this story so much. Because of it, today I asked my (very verbally delayed) 2yo if he could be good. He shook his head at me. I asked him if he could just try to be good - again, a head-shake, accompanied by a very emphatic, "Uh-uh!" So. Obviously, you write a very realistic 2yo, lol. I loved this chapter and all its warm fuzzies. You do such a great job capturing Jim and Pam's voices (I think I just said the same thing in a review of "By Your Side" - sorry to repeat myself.) Now - if you can make something pretty out of "Get the Girl" you will be a superhero. :)

Author's Response: I hope things become more positive for your son! It's weird how I"m able to write a 2 year old realistically, since I don't have any kids of my own, I only have baby sitting experiences from 10000 years ago to draw from. I'm really enjoying writing this little family and Cece, so hopefully I'll manage to continue doing so. I really appreciate the kind review, thank you so much! :)