A cool new place and some thoughts

Posted on | November 26, 2007 |

I went out to dinner tonight with Elizabeth and got to see her new place over by the mall. It was a nice time. Her new apartment is a cute place and she’s done it up very nice, perfect for someone starting out. Its safe, well lit, and full of amenities. I know, I sound like a freak or a commercial, I know, I know …
… so, obviously, as I sit here, making love to yet another beer bottle, I am brought to wonder, have I moved on myself? I admit I am a little jealous of picking up and running with a new life, new stuff, and a new place. The new cool apartment with the new car and the eager anticipation of a new adventure in chasing the inevitable PhD. It all sounds so romantic. After coming back from dinner I was looking around her new place, seeing small reminders of a life I didn’t have a prayer to save, and I couldn’t help but become a little choked up and need to run away. And you know, as I was driving home I realized I was running to the very place she was running away from. Perhaps I do have a fair bit of growing up to do then, don’t I.

With that, I am looking to get away hang out with a good old friend for a few days. This will be the first time I have hung out with her in quite a long time. Since high school in fact, so this will be fun. We were the ones people picked out to go nowhere yet have managed to claw our ways past the lives of those ‘chosen few’ in high school and I can’t wait to hear some stories of those who should have yet failed.

She’s a much healthier person than I am, drinking only rarely, a good change for me. She was a personal trainer for personnel in the military so she’s built like a brick shit-house too. This will make it a good time for me as I am hoping to get some serious pointers with the weights. I’m thinking of this as a reunion slash physical and mental wellness get-away. Either way smiles all around as it will be her birthday as well. Maybe the chef will whip up a little somethin’ somethin’, you know. We’ll have to wait and see.

Goodnight kids and have a good day tomorrow, its a jungle out there.

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