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Home At Last

Well here I am, back at work.

The flight back into DM was good, I sat next to some crazy girl and we talked, she too was on a trip back from seeing her bf. I showed her pics of Andrew and she said he was really adorable.

I talked to him for a bit last night and it sounds as though he’s having a great time out there in Cali. So that’s good.

Anyways, all the updates from the tri are now up, I suggest you go back to the archives and read them…
And you all better comment on them.

Pics will be posted soon, all 150 or so of them!

Laters all!

Almost Home

Well here I am sitting at the Detroit airport. It’s a really big airport, and really nice.

I’ve been here for about an hour and a half now and still have the same to go. I hate long lay-overs. Though this airport is a good one to have it in. It’s HUGE. So far I’ve walked the whole thing and just looked around, it’s really pretty.

Also sat down and ate a chili’s.

Gave Andrew a call and his phone rang, but he never picked up, so I left a message. Hopefully he’ll call back before I board.

The flight here was pretty nice overall. I spent most of the time sleeping, well probably half sleeping, it was a 4 hour flight. Thankfully I didn’t have anyone in the seat right next to me, so I could kinda spread out some.

The other half of the flight I spent crying and looking at all the pictures of the trip. I’ve only been gone for a couple hours, well more then a couple, but hardly long at all and I miss him so much.

I am looking forward to getting home though, and being in my own bed. Though it will also be very hard. As I’ve said before.

Anyways, I’m going to go write a private update about everything, so you all don’t have to deal with my gushing.

As We Say Goodbye

Wow, All I’ve got so far is the title, and I’m already starting to cry. I have a feeling this isn’t going to be a happy entry.

Lets start off with the rest of Monday night. We got to the Airport and I waited around for them to get there. Finally they showed up, but then it took forever to get the luggage.

Got to the hotel and dropped off our stuff and then headed out to Target to get stuff fro Andrew’s Dorm room. We found it and then decided to eat, so we stopped at a Subway and got some food. Good times, after that we walked over to Target and got stuff.

Andrew seemed to be getting very annoyed with his mother there. I tried to comfort him some, but I don’t really think it helped much. We got a bunch of stuff and then headed back to the hotel.

Sue’s a very scary driver. Especially when she’s on her cell phone and trying to drive at the same time. I’m surprised she hasn’t killed someone yet!

Back at the hotel, Sue went to bed and Andrew and I went to the hot tub. Sat in there and talked untell some straight boys notice there was a gay couple in there and stated sitting on their balcony and yelling funny things.

Went back to the room after that and sat and talked, we didn’t really talk about much and now I’m really regretting that. There’s so much that I wanted to talk about now, so much that I wanted to say to him to tell him how much he means to me, and how much I’m going to miss him. Anyways, All the gushing is for a private entry, I’ll spare all you that.

About 11 or so we went to bed, though that was really about 2AM New Jersey time, so we were really tired.

Didn’t sleep well at all that night, probably because of my nerves, we both were awake again by 5:30. Again, I would also have to say that has to do with our biological clocks, it would have been 8:30 in New Jersey.

We laid in bed tell 7:30 when Sue called us to see if we wanted to go to breakfast, so we did. Ate and then went back to the room to get ready to go. There was an accident on one of the roads that we needed to take, so Sue insisted on leaving UBER early, we left the hotel about 9:30, even though Andrew didn’t check in tell Noon.

Got there about 10:30, after stopping at a drugstore to get a few things we forgot, and driving around the area. The accident wasn’t.

Once we got there we walked around campus some. It was so pretty there and it makes me REALLY mad that I didn’t get into SDSU, and didn’t apply anywhere else. I really liked it there even though it was a pretty small campus. It was nice and comfy and Andrew should get along great there! All the people were so friendly.

About 11:30 or so we headed over to his dorm and got checked in.

One of his other roommates showed up shortly after we got there and they talked. Both of his roommates seem very nice, though one of them is a Basketball player and the other is a football player. That’ll be semi-nice for Andrew because that will mean they will be gone a lot, for practices and away games, etc. Also they both live fairly close, so I would guess they would go home on some weekends.

The whole move in thing was a mess and I just stayed back out of the way. The parents were all fighting over how the room should be set up and the Kids didn’t care, all very funny. Plus the other two roomies both brought like their WHOLE family with them, there were so many people in the room it was hard to get around.

We broke for lunch about 1ish and it was really good. After that went back to his room and hung out some.

His mom called and got an earlier flight, so she left about 3ish. I tried giving her some money for everything that she’s done for me, but she wouldn’t take it. I eventually got her to, after throwing it at her and then quickly jumping back in the room and locking the door.

After that it was just me and Andrew for a little bit and he set up a lot of his room, he really does well with that, and it was starting to look like someone lived there by the time that I left. Very cute area. I have pictures of it all and I’ll have to post them when I get time. Actually I have close to 150 picutres of the trip. Everyone of them is cute and has a wonderfully story behind it.

We sat around his room forever, him talking to his roommate and setting up.

About 6:30 we went over to the Luau (Spelling??). That was tons of fun, though the food sucked. So we hung out there for about an hour and then went over to a c-store and got some ice cream with his roomie.

After that it was back to the dorm, I sat around while he and everyone else was in meetings. That was alright, I put the pictures that I had on his computer and watched a slide show of them all, set to the music of the CD that I had made him. I cried a lot while he was gone, mostly because I wanted to get it all out before we had to say our final goodbyes that night.

After he got back we headed right out to say our goodbyes. I got a bit annoyed because as we were walking across campus I wanted to hold his hand, it would be the LAST time that I got to walk around with him, and hold his hand, but he didn’t want too. He was too afraid. But I was annoyed because there was NO ONE around to be afraid of, it was just us. Whatever though. I got over it. I didn’t want to ruin our last time together.

I called a taxi at 10, and asked for it to be at the corner of Orange and Palm at 10:30. We had 30 minutes to say goodbye.

Well 10:30 rolled around and we had got most of the crying out of the way and were just waiting around for the taxi to get there,. 10:40, I called the company to find out where the hell my cab was. They said that it had already picked someone up,.

I was SO pissed off, I mean how the hell could it have picked up the wrong person. WE were the ONLY people standing at the corner of Orange and Palm. How in the WORLD could it have picked up the wrong people, so I stated bitching at the guy, mostly because I was very emotional and very stressed out. And the fucker HUNG up on me!

So I called back and just calmly asked for another cab. By that time it was 10:52 or so. The cab finally got there at 11:10 and I got home at 11:30.

I’m very glad that I had a good cab driver though, he talked to me the whole way home, so I didn’t have any time to just sit there and stew about Andrew being gone, about how I had to leave him in this place where he’s all alone. But I’m sure that by that time today, he’ll have made friends.

The ride was $31 dollars though, I couldn’t believe how expensive it was.

Saying goodbye wasn’t has hard as I thought it would be, Don’t get me wrong it was so hard for me to get in that taxi and leave him standing there on the corner by himself. I couldn’t hardly stand it.

And I was very annoyed with myself because while I was waiting for him to get out of his meeting, I though of so much that I wanted to say to him before we left each other, but then as we were standing there saying goodbye, I couldn’t think of any of it. And there still is so much that I want to say to him,.

I still can’t believe though that last night was the last time I’m going to get to see him tell Christmas. The last time, All I have now are the pictures and I just don’t know if I can handle that. I didn’t want him to go. I want him to come back to Iowa.

I can’t believe that when I get back to Iowa, I won’t have him to call up on the weekends and say, Hey want to go out.

I can’t believe that I no longer have such a wonderfull boyfriend. I’ve lost him. And I can only hope that some day our paths will cross again.

This flight home is going to be a long one, and so is theride home for the airport. I don’t know if I can handle that or not. I just want the next 4 months to be over, I want it to be Christmas so that we can see each other again. I want it to be next summer so that we can be together again.

I really really hope that plans work out so that he can be in Ames next summer. And I hope even more that he can get into SDSU. Because now being back in Cali for even these three days I’ve fallen back in love with it.

I remember when I loved it there so much the first time, and now I want to go back and make that my home.

Anyhow, once I got back, was very hard though, staying in the hotel room where just the night before we had been together, and slept in the same bed together. Seeing that he had forgotten his flight stubs, and there was a pair of his underwear in the bathroom. These little reminders of him, made me so sad. I just laid in bed for a while crying.

This morning I got up and checked out. I got a nice driver again for the ride to the airport and I was the only one in the shuttle, so we talked a bit. He was deffinitaly gay and we talked about the area and how great it is to live there.

Got to the airport and the lines were all uber long, though I got through in plenty of time. I only had to wait about a 20 minutes before they stated boarding the plane.

And now here I am, we’ve been in the jet about an hour now, and it’s a 4 hour flight, I’ll be into Detroit about 4:00 Eastern time. I don’t want to be there.

Bitch Bitch Bitch

So some people just don’t know when to stop bitching. We’ve been on this flight now for an hour and someone is still bitching about the same thing she was bitching about when she got on the god damn flight.

This plane has 6 seats, 3 on each side of the isle.

There’s a family, that needs 4 seats, 3 on one side of the isle, 1 on the other side. The other two seats are empty.

Another family gets on, they are spread all over the plane. 4 people, The dad talks to one of the attendants or whatever they are called, and gets it so that his wife and one of his SMALL (IE 5 or 6) children are sitting in those two empty seats next to the father of afore mentioned family. The other small child of family number 2 is in the middle seat infront of the mother and small child number 1. The father of family number 2 is in seat 16f, 10 rows infront of his wife and other SMALL children.

It becomes vary apparent that small child number 2 needs to sit next to mother. So the famther of Family number 1, sitting across the isle from his family and two TEENAGE kids offers to move foreward ONE row.

His wife then begins to throw a HUGE hissy fit, because they are doing things to to help family number 2 be closer together and they are pulling her family apart.

Now, first off, she has two TEENAGE kids, who I’m sure don’t want to sit next to each other, and REALLY don’t want to sit next to their mother who is now being UBER emarassing. I was embarrassed for them!

And secondly, the FATHER of family number 1 OFFERED to move so that family number 2’s children could both sit with their mother!

She bitched and bitched about it so much that they had to have the captian of the plane come back and ask her to calm down or else she would have to leave the plane.

I wanted to turn around and bitch at her and be like, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING you stupid fucking woman!

She bitched so much, and no EVERYTIME that an attendant walks by she bitches at them some more about it. What a WHORE face.

God I really want to turn around and bitch slap her!

Anyways, other then that the flight is going really well. I’ve taken a few more pics and stuff, so that’s exciting. I got out my computer so that I could put them on here, but I can’t find the thing to do that. So It’ll have to wait tell I get home, or at least to the airport so that I can dig through my bag a bit more.

My flight left right on time, and we’re going to be into Huston a bit early, so hopefully Andrew and Sue’s flight is going well too.

It’s very pretty flying up here today, just the right amount of clouds and you can see the ground pretty clearly. It’s so pretty. Really makes me want to fly more often then I do. I hope that I can continue to afford to fly some.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Andrew’s Grandpa gave me a hug at the airport, I thought that was really sweet of him.

Anyways, I’m going to go look at my pictures now. Laters all!

A Day Of Flights

Well here I am sitting in the EWR airport. Terminal C, gate 94. It’s 10 to 9 here and my flight doesn’t board tell 1015 or so. This is very sad for me, we’re finally fliying out of here to Orange, Ca.

The week has been great so far, and I’ve really enjoyed sharing it with Andrew. I’m so glad that I got the chance to come, even though we are flying on different flights. I really wish that he was here with me now I really need him to be.

I love how they say on the intercom that unattended luggage can be Damaged or destroyed. Very reassuring.

Yesterday was pretty good. We walked over to the mall and hung out at B&N for a long time. I got yelled at for not having my shoes on in the store and I flipped the woman off. What a whore face.

After that we went and walked around the mall for a long time. It was nice. We found this place that was selling thongs for $.25 I was going to buy one so that Andrew would wear it for me, but I didn’t have $.25 on me and I didn’t want to break a $20. lol.

I did find a new wallet though. I really needed one I like it, though I’m going to have to get used to it, or it’s going to have to get used to my ass. One or the other.

After the mall we went home, ate Fried Dough. Which was really good. And then hung out in our room for the rest of the night playing video games and just having a good time.

This morning we got up at 7, and got ready to go. Andrew and I were both ready go by 7:20, so we just sat around tell about 7:45 when we left. The ride here was a bit cramped because the Jaguar couldn’t fit all of our luggage in the trunk, so we had Andrew’s big suitcase next to us.

Drove here and dropped them off at Terminal A, and then grandpa drove me over to terminal C. I’m glad that he drove me here too, I was just going to take the tram over from terminal A. But once we got here and saw how long the lines for checkin were. I’m glad that he drove me here. Though it really didn’t take that long to get through everything. The lines moved fast. And since the checkin lines were so long, I was expecting the security lines to be really long too. But it really wasn’t. Actually there wasn’t ANYONE in line for security, I just flew right thought. So that was cool.

Grandpa and I talked on the way here about how sad it is to see everyone leave. I’m glad it was a short drive here cause otherwise I would have broken out crying hysterically.

Anyways, I hope that my flights go well and everything is good to go. It seems like everything is fine so far.