WAG - An Early Columbia Visitation
A.K.A. Last Minute Promise Fulfillment
Tomorrow, or today depending on how long it takes me to finish this post, I start my last week of my relaxed summer vacation.
I still will have one more week before I’m expected in Columbia, but that will be moth trap pickup week and I’ll be pulling multiple 10 or 11-hour days in a row. Throw in packing, last minute shopping, and the general tenseness that settles around the household when one or more members are preparing to move on, it’s going to be “interesting.”
But I still have a week before then. Sure I’ll have to work, but only 40 hours (I’m only allowed to do extra the following week because it’s pick-up day, and there really isn’t anyone else who can decipher my notes to track down the traps.
I have many mixed feelings about the whole thing; as would be expected. Pros and cons await me no matter what path I head down. Shoot, I’ll still have to deal with them even if I refuse to move.
In preparation for my upcoming change in locations (what a nice euphemism for moving) I spent the day cleaning up my room. Well, it was more like taking the piles that comprise the mess and depositing them into Tupperware containers. The mess still remains, but it’s so compartmentalized it’s been rendered “mostly harmless.”
I also spent a bit of quality time with the cat watching Sister Act. Patches seemed to like it better than The Lion King, which we watched last night (well, it’s one of the few movies I have on my computer so I watched what I believe to be the best 45 minutes). Of course the cat’s preference may be due to the fact I spent more time petting her during the second movie, but then again cats are hard to read; even if you can see their eyes in the dark.
The other thing I worked on was plans for Sunday. I’ve been promising to visit my girlfriend all summer, and the innuendo that I needed to follow through on that pledge was getting pretty thick.
Fortunately, a break occurred in my schedule (where I and a vehicle became available as well as a backup person at home who could follow me up in case I got into trouble [I’m not a bad driver, but I have had unfortunate luck {see last week} concerning automobiles]). It’s been a long time since all three lined up. Family vacations, camping trips, changes in my Dad and Sister’s work schedules (my Mom and I are the only ones who never have to worry about working weekends; though it is only once in a blue moon that my Dad does) all caused the timing to be off.
Yes, I realize it’s a bit ironic I’m visiting Jessie two weeks before I’ll be back in town. On the surface I know it would be simpler if I just waited the extra 14 days, but I know following through here will help me with the relationship.
Note: Trustworthiness is an important thing in relationships.
Granted most of you already knew that, and if you didn’t I pity you, but there’s a major difference between knowing something and following through.
Thus that’s why I’m getting up early in the morning to go to church in a town where I’ll be residing in another dozen or so days.
For you readers who are already in the Columbia area, I wish there was time to coordinate extra visits, but with two church services, a family barbeque (hers), possibly a movie (depending on the time left between the previous two) and driving roughly 300 miles (which is what I’ve been averaging lately at work), there isn’t really any time left.
That’s why I didn’t post about the trip until the last minute, but I promise to make it up to all of you later.
And I do follow through on most of my promises.
It may be only a few short days before the deadline runs out, but I do my best.
And THAT you can take to the bank!
They won’t give you anything for it, but hey an worthless promise is better than no promise as all.
Okay I’m going to try to stop writing one-liners and end this post.
Just let me slowly wind down.
It’s easier that way.
Wish me luck.
Take care.
Adios.
'BYE'
