mmmm. I thought i would have a lot to say once I found the the time to get back into my blogging routine. But now that I'm trying I realize that there is much to say, and I'm not sure of the words to say them with.
I've been absent mainly due to one person. My oldest friend made it back to Canada in the middle of August, and my time was willing monopolized by her while she was here, what little time I had that was not spent at either of my jobs or her was spent with her. We actually started joking that we were each other significant others (I'm not sure how that made her actual fiance feel...but as he was in Oz, he didn't get a say). People would ask me if she and I could come to dinner, and sometimes the answer was, ooooo , Monday...we're busy then, how about Tuesday?
Tomorrow she flies back to the other side of the world. Where she has a "flat", a fiance, a car, a job, and plans to have baby. Yep a baby. I'm not quite ready for her to have a baby. I need my friends to get married and then plan a baby. But she's having trouble planning a wedding, from the other side of the world, for people from Canada and Scotland. So since they are not planning a wedding they've decided to have a baby. Because otherwise they'd be just be living and working in Oz. (What do they think the rest of us are doing?) No matter where you are everyone is living and working. So I'm adjusting. My girl will likely be having a baby sometime in the next year, and doing it in Oz. Where I won't be able to see her belly grow, feel the baby move, see her glow, or the baby when he/she arrives. I'm adjusting. There's pictures and email, and blogs, and web cams, and the old fashioned telephone.
So I'm adjusting. I'm going to miss her, a lot. I already do.