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My hunny finally took me to the Cedar Street Inn for dinner after I've heard about it since before we were dating! We got a little dressed up before heading out :)
We met up with Chris and Danielle and then headed out to Providence, RI for dinner. We were doing to go ice skating but got there too late :( So we went to Dave and Buster's instead!
For Christmas, Bryan and I had been working on a book (using Blurb) for his dad with all his dad's pictures from the Algonquin trip the two took last summer. It turned out absolutely amazing with Bryan's writing and my page layout. This picture was taken right when is dad realized what it was when he opened it up. It was hands down, the most sentimental present I've ever worked on, and I was so happy I got to be there to see his dad open it and experience it!
This picture was taken when he was reading the dedication. You can't really see but there were a few tears ;)
Every page sparked great emotions from his dad, either bursts of laughter or just "oh wow" from feeling overwhelmed. He was so happy his pictures didn't go to waste, especially since he had been trying out different features on his camera and he was utilizing some different techniques (he had brought a really fancy camera, and his two interests in life are photography and nature). Him and B spent a few hours looking through page by page and reminiscing about the trip.
Bonnie was taking away Otis's toy that he absolutely destroyed in a matter of two hours. What a funny dog!
Otis got kind of bored after that I think, so he was just hanging out with us.
So I had a really blonde moment when I was cracking/eating nuts. B gave me this thing that he said was a tool for picking nuts out of their shells (it just looks like a long metal stick with a handle on it). I'd never used one before so I was chipping at a nut and not only did I accidentally stab myself, but I also stabbed a huge chunk of a Brazil nutshell into my finger and gave myself a really bad splinter. Bonnie, being a vet, had all the tools to conduct "surgery" on my finger and fish out the splinter.
Here they are a few hours later after going through the book! I love that cover - it is a picture of the two of them sitting around a fire at night.
We were packing the night before our flight back to Michigan, and we had so many gifts and random fragile things to pack, B and I just dumped everything out on the floor and used our piles of clothes as padding for presents. Then we had to separate toiletries and anything else that might have liquid or look like a weapon into bags that would be checked in. What a mess!
Sometimes, I don't know how to express in words how I feel. I think clenching my fists and making a sound that comes out like "errrruuuuugggghhh" is an accurate and appropriate representation.
Separately, I am leaving for the airport in 3 hours and I realized, I didn't get to see a lot of people over break that I wanted to. Oops!
I was packing and shuffling through the pockets of one of my luggage bags, and found a long lost letter from an old flame. A beautiful poem he wrote to me about me. What sentiment. Thank God I found it too, because I was coincidentially thinking about it last night and sorting through some things in the closet looking for the letter!
Christmas was great - we went to the Suliots to eat delicious steak, veggie medlies, enormous crab legs the length of my arm, and oocha poocha (I don't know how to pronounce or spell it, but it is a dish from Brian's side of the family that he made for us and this is what everyone called it). Hopped in the hot tub (yes, outside), played Wii Fit with their kids, ate lots of pie... pure bliss.
So I celebrated my birthday ahead of time with BGS yesterday, and I had an amazing time! Dinner at my "world ends tomorrow" restaurant, a crafty date place, the most romantic setting I've ever seen, and jewelry that reminds me of our weekend away :) And he respected my wish to keep it low key!
Today, he drove me to the airport. His 3 days away in NM was pretty bad, I don't know how I'm going to make it through a week!
The flight was brutal. I luckily got the kicking, screaming, crying kid sitting behind me. He also stood up in his seat and put his little hands on my head and headrest, dropped his toy cars in my lap repeatedly, and snapped the pocket on the back of my seat for at least half an hour straight until I fully woke up from my nap.
To add, I'm pretty sure this family or a family just like it moved into the room next to me because all I've been hearing is crying, screaming, and loud parents all day!
At any rate, here's where I am currently curled up as I write:
This past week has been the height of the latest dramas going on in my life. I feel like my latest frustration is not being able to hold each part of my life together.
And yet, in the midst of all the emotional turmoil, I have found a new stability in feeling incredibly/unusually happy with new friends and relationships. And strangely, I am incredibly/unusually excited to keep riding this roller coaster to find out what the conclusions are to these episodes and to find out what life dares to challenge me with next. We'll find out.
A few major things I'm looking forward to in these upcoming months: my birthday (which I told friends to keep low key... no surprises this year - I don't even want to think about it being my birthday... just a nice dinner and a few good hugs), a prospective but seemingly promising business trip to San Antonio, planned trips to visit friends, meeting my new boy's family, possibly Christmas with him and his family, and "Los Travelmates" (as DB named the group) who are planning a trip for New Year's!
Nothing's every promised tomorrow today
But we'll find a way
