Back home...

[jay]

Had a great, snuggly, reconnective time this weekend with my long-term LDR partner Nancy in Minneapolis... it was hard to leave her there, and she's going in for knee surgery on Friday. But LDRs are kind of like that for me... reconnection, a sort of mini-NRE upswing, then poignancy at the end. And I was happy to see patgreene waiting for me at SFO past security, smiling in red satin ;-).

Last night Dave and Nancy hosted a dinner party... apart from Dave being an amateur chef and quite good, it was a chance to meet his sweetie T. and her spouse and teenaged son. And play board games... today after a group brunch at an uptown cafe, I persuaded Nancy to take me to my other annual-ritual Minneapolis shopping stop (Land's End outlet store, where I won't even look at something unless it's >50% off).

Being the loving and supportive person that she is, she hemmed four pairs of pants (all for my son David, who is very hard to fit) before we retired to cuddle and nap. Given her painful knee, we weren't nearly as out and active as on past weekends there, but that was OK for me as I needed a low-key couple of days as a break. :)

Comments

[yami-mcmoots.livejournal.com]

LDRs are like that for most people, I think. Me, anyway, and if I can't use myself to make generalizations about the whole world who can I use?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

LOL... yep. And over the past few years, I've begun reflexively qualifying even pretty-obvious statements about personal life, almost as though I were publishing them... after getting repeatedly challenged over every little generalization in a couple of online forums. (wry grin)

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I got a sweet note from Nancy. The happiness you two share just delights me.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

*hug* back... I still want to get both of you, er, together on a date someday, because I think that your attitudes and ways of interacting with me would be compatible... (wink).

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Warm, relaxed, interesting, loving weekends like that are the best... so glad that you got the time together with Nancy, and I hope to meet her someday. Yay for being met by Pat all pretty in red satin, too :)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

She used to visit me out here once a year -- we'd take turns, every six months or so -- but moving and medical stuff have left her mostly immobile. But we're talking about a visit here next winter, Jan-Feb. timeframe.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Yay! Will look forward to meeting her, then.

[p3aches.livejournal.com]

Welcome home, sounds like you had a wonderful time.Yay for LDRs. Nancy is really special.I imagine pat looked fabulous in red satin. Hugs T

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

She looked great, and things went on nicely from there ;-).