...it's no One Hundred Years, but then again I ain't no Gabriel Garcia Marquez either. But, yes I am on my own for about the next two weeks.
Just dropped Todd off on the airport, for a mind-blowing, Amazing Race worthy business trip. Originally, he was just going to be going to Hong Kong for a week, but then he needed to go to some other places "in the neighborhood"... so instead of having to go back to Asia again in a month or two later, he just decided to get it all done in one swoop. After Hong Kong he is headed to Kuala Lumpur then over to Bangkok. So this "first leg" is pretty much 24 hours of straight travel starting with a "short" hop to San Francisco, before the big flight across the Pacific... the combination of actual flight time and time zone difference just makes my brain ache!
He wasn't terribly excited about the trip. Ironically enough, the business trip is going to put him more behind in getting his daily work done... which is a never-ending battle. And, likewise, I really can't imagine doing that kind of trip alone and once there it is quite the culture shock. Based on his past trips to Asia, he said he could certainly relate to the Bill Murray character from Lost in Translation.
Emotionally, I have never been great at airports. I have buckled up better over the years, but even now, watching some total strangers reunite in the airport can sometimes still bring a tear to my eye. Anyhow, I guess our relationship is still in pretty good shape... even after 10+ years together, I got a little misty as Todd passed through security and disappeared past the gates...
But it's only two frickin' weeks, right?! I can kind of keep relatively sane while he is on a one-week trip... in that tunnel, I can see the light. But with him not returning until March 4th, already it seems as if the extra week would require a bit more pacing on my part. Since most of my work related communications are done via e-mail, there are literally times where I talk to no one from 7am-5pm Monday thru Friday in a given week... and even on a "good week" we are talking minutes (one, two hours?) of social interaction. So, for purely selfish reasons, I very much look forward to having him come home everyday. And with work currently in a very slow phase (though promising to pick up any day now), I haven't even had that as a fallback to keep me busy and occupied.
So I plan on stretching out the errands to get out of the house as often as possible. Will likely go to my accountant sometime over the next week to drop of my tax stuff or this year... and maybe try to enlist Scott & Buckaroo to get me over hump next weekend.
At least I have the animals to keep me company (though we had another scare with Mindy this past week, maybe more on that later)... but it is seeming very, very quiet already.
You have the animals, but also us, right here in the Internet. Duh!
Posted by: DeAnn | Monday, February 20, 2006 at 01:51 AM