whenever brandon is going to be gone, i make lists of things i want to accomplish while he is away. i get a little excited about having the house to myself, eating dinner standing over the sink, sleeping in without feeling guilty, & watching movies i know he would despise. the first few days i revel in all of the above, usually adding a night out with my girlfriends & a few craft projects to the list. but by day three i realize i miss him. a lot. mostly i miss his friendship. he is an amazing husband & i am desperately in love with him, but our friendship is what i can't to do without. especially the sarcasm & inside jokes.
i know i shouldn't complain, & i feel guilty even posting this, because some people are apart from the person they love for months, even years, at a time.
he comes home tonight! i might miss sleeping in the middle of our bed, reading until the wee hours of the morning without him dramatically sighing about my nocturnal habits, & eating cheese & crackers for a meal. but at this point, that stuff seems pretty trivial.
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in other news, i think i misunderstood my spanish-only-speaking neighbor's gesture yesterday & gave her a hug. how do you recover from giving an unwelcome hug? yeah, i gave them homemade cookies wrapped up in holiday themed cellophane, but i don't know if the reciprocal gesture is a hug. so she will probably avoid me for a few weeks until this holiday hug fever passes.
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additionally, the neighbors who gave us a passive aggressive {read: irritating} letter about harvey's barking this summer stopped by. he knocked on our door & said he stopped by to tell me that my back porch light was on, that it had been on for two days, & that it was incredibly bright. "we don't have a back porch light," i said. he argued that indeed we do & that it is bothering him. again, we don't have a back porch light. at which point it dawned on me that our neighbors {see above, who only speak spanish} are the ones with the light. i told him this & he then said, "could you talk to them about it?" i stood staring for at least 30 seconds, with my mouth hanging open. in my shock & stupidity i said, "uh, if i can communicate that." he smiled sickeningly & thanked me. what was i thinking? why did i agree to deal with his junk? the absurdity of this request baffles me. so i followed his passive aggressive style & did nothing. so much for that holiday cheer i was trying to cultivate.
1 comment:
Hey Linds, speaking as one who is used to missing my best friend, you have nothing to feel guilty about! It doesn't matter if you are missing them for a week, a month, or just a few days. When you're missing a loved one it sucks all the same, anyone who says different is just bitter that they have to miss anyone at all :)
By the way what you said about missing his friendship is TOTALLY how I feel about Logan. I so know how you feel :) I also empathize with your neighborly dilemmas. People can be so ridiculous. I too have committed to things at the door that I never wanted and regretted it as soon as I said it thinking, "I wish Logan were here! He would have just told them to bugger off!" ;) haha
P.S. Hooray for Brandon coming home!! Give him an extra hug for us when he gets there!
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