Saturday, December 17, 2011

The Traveler's Life


Both David and I have some travel required for our jobs.  Luckily, it is not full time and mine is somewhat flexible.  David's is mostly within the state so that makes it a bit easier too.  However, it sometimes works out that we won't be able to see each other for days or weeks at a time because of our schedules.  This happened to us last week.  


David had to be in Gainesville for the week, while I was in San Fran and Orlando.  We saw each other Friday night, but then David was off to Jacksonville for a boys weekend while I stayed in Orlando.  


While left to my own devices, poor Jangles had to pay the price: 




There are also certain things we like to always do together that get difficult when one or the other is gone.  One of these things is opening packages or fun mail.  When we started to receive wedding gifts in the mail, we quickly decided that it was totally not cool for one of us to open them without the other there.  This then translated into any fun mail (e.g., wedding invitations, party invitations, cards, anything addressed to both of us).  So, with it being Christmas Card season and all, I had a big pile of cards stacking up that I was DYING to open!  I have a cute wreath that I'm using to display all the cards we get (pictures of holiday decorations to come!) and I really wanted to be able to add some more cards to the display (at this point, it only had 1 there!).  So, I convinced David to let me open the cards and text him pictures.  He got a ton of text messages like this:




On Sunday, I was off to NYC before David was home.  Luckily, David had to go to Stamford, CT for work that same week.  We worked it out so that we could meet for dinner in White Plains, NY (half way between me and David) on Monday night.  It felt so weird to go to meet at a mall, go to dinner, and then each get into our respective rental cars to go back to our hotels.  I felt like we were in that movie, "Up in the Air".  We realized that his hotel was really only about 45-50 minutes from my office, so I canceled my second hotel night and went to stay with David.  It was great that it worked out for us to see each other.  I have a feeling that we're going to have to get creative like this more often!