Again With The True Washington Story
Well, this tale is drawing to a close, so I'll finish up the last few deets for you that are interested:
September 26, 2003: We arrive back here in WA, tired and in my case bent-over sore, and as I walk up the stairs to the apartment he rented just for us just before he left to pick me up, I notice the flowers.
You heard me. Flowers.
Rose petals scattered up the stairs and into the apartment, leading up to another dozen long-stemmed reds and a bottle of champagne courtesy of his cohort the ASSMA across the parking lot. (No longer is she the next-door neighbor thank god) Even better, there is waiting in the bathroom a tub full of bubbles and overflowing with candles and smelly stuff to relax with after a ong and arduous journey.
At this point, I have known the hub-unit for exactly a month and a half, most of which I was in Florida for. We took a bath together, drank some champagne, and snuggled closely together in his full-size bed (GAH) to get some sleep in preparation of the CRAP to come.
The next almost-two-weeks is filled with paperwork, insurance forms, adding of my name to EVERYTHING, yadda yadda spoink because, soon on October 13th, he will be leaving for three months in Japan. JAPAN.
So here I am, still in pain as I will be for at least another week, doped up on painkillers and squishing my water bottle and depressed as all hell that he's leaving so soon, and my inlaws call.
I won't get into my inlaws. They are strange, dominating people who believe that nothing is their fault and apparently I am the antichrist and... But I'm getting away with myself. The inlaws will be discussed at a later date, perhaps when I have nothing else to write, so let's just say that they called and it wasn't fun and there was yelling and we'll move on.
October 13, 2003: For the first time, I see a man cry. A lot. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to go through in my life, and to this day it still is. He left at midnight, and me without a driver's license I oculdn't even take him to the airport. I cried....TONS.
For the first few weeks we talked via email and video chats, and then he got a phone in his room. I won't go into that either, but that part was fun.
And while he was gone, and he was getting almost a grand a month in perdiem, and I had his credit card, I redecorated the apartment. I know, i know, you think that is a totally chick thing to do, but it really wasn't. It was a direct order from the hub-unit to use that money and whatever else I could scrounge up to make his dreary (SUPER) bachelor pad into a home complete with curtains kitchen gadgets and a new bed. I think I did pretty well. And in January of next year, if I'm still around, I'll tell the story of what happened when he came home.
Because that brings me full circle, kids. I started this blog in November of last year, and that's where you all met me.
PS ain't my life some kinda crazy teen soap? I mean, who else is as crazy as I am when I put my mind to it?
Rattled Out By Queenie
at 10:53 PM