Sometimes He Makes Me Cry

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

9:16 PM - Sometimes He Makes Me Cry


I'll be the first to admit it - I've been on a bit of an emotional roller coaster for the past couple of days. Okay... okay... okay... call it a bit PMSy if you must... with that in mind this is a blog that will probably only make sense and matter to me... anyway...

Recently Jim's work area was expanded to cover a 12 state radius. Yeah, it blows, but that's not the point of this random blog. Since the overhaul of his department he's spent a lot of time in the central time zone. At first this caused some minor irritations for the two of us. Mainly because it meant that our nightly chats were cut short. They were cut even shorter if I went out with the local group. Don't read more into that then what is stated. He's thrilled that I have a life outside of him (or at least pretend to try to), but it's hard to go from talking for an hour or so every day to squeezing in ten or twenty minutes. Then the tables were changed and he found himself working and going out with friends. After the incident with his night out with his buddy Steve (no phone call, late dinner, and a visit to Denver's finest gentlemen's club... btw Steve has been put on notice that Jim can no longer have unsupervised visits with him - lol), we both quickly realized that we needed to make more of an effort to figure out how to adapt our usual routine to the new circumstances we've found ourselves thrown into.

With that said... we've become that annoying couple that everyone loves to hate at the office... I'm now that woman... the one who has the boyfriend/husband that calls ten times a day just to say, "I'm breathing and I love you." Hey, I'm not complaining!

Before lunch time today I got the "I made it through the night" phone call. This afternoon I got the "I'm on the road" phone call. During the latter of the two I was informed that the guys (minus Steve - lol) were going to have a "safety meeting" when they got to Pueblo. After he explained that "safety meeting" is code for guys-night-out he let me know that it might be a late night and that they weren't sure just yet when they were going to be starting the night. Being the wonderful and caring girlfriend that I am I told him to go let loose and I'd catch him when he got home or sometime in the morning.

At 9 tonight I got the phone call that made me melt. He called from the "safety meeting" just to tell me he loves me, to give me an update of the "meeting," and to encourage me to go to sleep early, "I don't want you to be exhausted tomorrow Sweety." Of course because he'd already been enjoying the "meeting" for several hours he had to repeat himself several times to make his point. Don't ask me why... but his multiple proclamations of "I love you" (in front of the guys) just melted my heart... by the time I convinced him to hang up the phone and go back to hanging with the guys I had little tears of joy swelling up in my eyes.

Sometimes it's the little things that make us feel warm, secure, and loved.