First, let me say… Happy
First, let me say... Happy New Years!Secondly, I would like to add that this is absolutely the longest I have gone without posting since I started this blog back in May. Some of my friends tease me about posting too much... too often... too much to read or keep up with. It's not like it's intellectual material or anything. It's mostly just random thoughts and emotional expression without the breadth or details to substantiate interest beyond the topical skim. If I told you that this was a good break from blogging, I would be lying... and I don't lie. For this to have been a break, I would have had to of at least once thought of what I was taking a break from... in theory... and since I have thought of nothing but her, I don't think I meet the pre-requisite. I guess I left off somewhere in the midst of my complete and utter awe after bearing witness to Vaden Todd Lewis rocking the faces off every last soul at Deep Ellum Live on the 30th. Sean and I were road weary and exhausted by the time we made it to Colorado on the morning of New Year's Eve. New Years Eve was great. We avoided all the loud and crowded hussle bussle about town and had a nice dinner and a quiet evening. I can't think of anywhere I would have rather been than there with her when midnight came. The only way my new year could have possibly started any better would have been if she and I were alone, but that's just the romantic dork in me fighting to get out. It was very nice to be there with friends. Sean had given me a 256MB USB flash drive for Christmas (which is completely pimptacular), so we watched the stuff we loaded on the drive after the bell tolled... Xtracurricular shots and a video I made for EL of my little furry four-legged family at home. I laugh my ass off every time I see Éclair and the electric toothbrush. If I had more upstream bandwidth on this server, I'd put a small clip online. Maybe someday. Anyhoo, it snowed a tiny bit...
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...but nothing stuck. I love the snow. Speaking of snow, it snowed in Colorado on Christmas day. It did not snow in Houston on Christmas day. When I arrived in Colorado Springs for New Years, ErinLynn presented me with a small apothecary bottle, snuggly wrapped in a cute, little, ornate sack... sealed with a tiny golden rope... filled with Christmas snow. It was one of the sweetest and most thoughtful things ever done for me. She is amazing. I don't have the words to express what I feel for her. Anyhoo, New Year's Day was relaxing. We had a huge breakfast... at like 3:30 in the afternoon... followed by a quiet evening. I like those a lot. Sean and I were supposed to fly back to Houston on the 2nd. I had received an email confirmation that our flight was departing at 11:30 on Continental. It was an e-ticket, so the confirmation was via email. When we arrived at the airport however, they had no record of us... none... nada... nothing. About an hour or so later, after much confusion and little explanation, we discovered that when the flight was actually ticketed, we were placed on a non-direct flight through Minneapolis that departed 5 hours earlier via a Continental partner (Northwest). I am not sure how these things still occasionally happen in today's technological age, but it sucked. As I was laying in bed the night before, my heart felt it was going to run over... like filling a cup in the sink and forgetting the water is running. It was at that instant that I knew I couldn't leave yet. I decided to stay. I knew I was staying when I got to they airport that morning. I didn't even bring my bags. My only concern was for Sean and his making the connecting flight to Los Angeles out of Houston that night. We managed to get him a ticket on another flight later in the afternoon and eventually, all the details worked themselves out. He and I spent a few more hours together before I dropped him at the terminal and drove back to the apartment. I wish he and I could see each other more often. Distance seems to be a real problem with me. EL and I had a wonderful evening together last night at the Broadmoor. We didn't do much of anything... just talked. We talk a lot... about pretty much everything. I love hearing her voice.
I'm really tired this morning. I had to come into the office and I have a lot going on here... my mind is sleepy. It's weird working in the Colorado office on Houston projects. Dislocation from the task at hand puts a new spin on coordinating things. I need to get back to work...
ps. There are some more photos of Sean on my Fotki site.
pps. I miss her.