Day 277

I miss my girlfriend.

So I'm happy to announce that with today ending, there are only NINE MONTHS LEFT (approximately) until Zee is home! Yippee!

My trip to Knoxville has ended, and I'm once again writing from the warmth of my beautiful purple comforter. It was fun to see my friends and to spend so much time with my wonderful wifey, Heather, after way too much time apart (Darn you, Hawaii).

Speaking of Heather, today is her Two Year Anniversary with her husband! Congratulations on two beautiful years and many more to come!!

Interesting things happened on my trip to Knoxville:

1. I shot a gun for the first time. I did fairly well.

I can't remember if I had eight or ten shots, but, for the sake of my ego, let's assume eight. Also, I wish I'd gotten a shot of my second time shooting, because that time I got a bulls-eye!

2. I had a talk with Heather's father about my gayness, despite much trepidation.

3. I received beautiful presents from Heather and Spargo. Heather's was a GORGEOUS pendant, hand-made in India. And Spargo's catered more towards my geeky side.

Yes, those are printed tin plates of the original Star Wars movie posters. Yes, you should be jealous.

4. I bought more books, and I'm happy that my religion and science fiction sections of my library are growing quite nicely. Heather even showed me her system for cataloging her books, and I'm so excited to do a complete inventory of my collection in April!! (Yes, I had to find and set a specific date, because it will take all day.)

And that's all she wrote, folks.

Day 280

Well, we knew Zee wouldn't be in trouble for long. Especially when I'm more amused than angry.

And it didn't hurt that after a long and terrible day at work, I came home to a handwritten letter from her. Also in the letter was a bracelet she braided for me.

From her wrist...

...to mine.

And I've had the deployment blues so badly this past week, that I read her letter over and over again in my car and just cried. I cried because it felt so good to know that, at the end of a terrible, horrible, unbearable day, I can rely on her to love me and be there for me, no matter the distance.

In other news, I'm heading to Knoxville today! I'm excited! Knoxville is where I went to college and where I made my best friends and where I did most of my growing up. So I'm happy to be going back for a visit and for the chance to see the most wonderful Heather!

There is only one thing I'm not excited about....

Heather's Parents.

They now know that I am gay.

I am gay, and they are Southern Baptists.

I will be lectured.

And even though I know I am strong in my faith and my beliefs, and even though I know I can stand up for myself and who I am without shame...

I'm afraid I'll cow in the face of parental disapproval.

Uuuuugh. I haven't had this talk with a parent since I was 19. It wasn't fun then, and it won't be fun now.

Because it sucks losing the respect of people you love for something you can't control and something you know isn't wrong.

In any case, it's time to take a deep breath, grab my soap box, and get ready for this "discussion."

Day 303

Today's blog post comes to you courtesy of Zee!

When my laptop kicked the can back during the summer, I didn't worry about it too much. I had netflix for my movies, and I could catch up on Facebook at work.

But recently with the writing bug biting at my heels every day, I've been feeling the pains of not having my own computer.

Zee has been feeling it too, some, I guess, and she bought me a netbook!

Red, cuz it's extra stylish.

And since it has a webcam, I can look forward to seeing Zee's pretty face long before her mid-term leave! (She is camera shy and refuses to send me a picture.)

So I am in tech-heaven right now. With this, knitting, and my new Professor Layton coming in the mail tomorrow (Yay, Christmas!), I'm not going to be short on fun things to do!

I am happy to report that the plague has left the South!! This time two million fish died in the Chesapeake Bay. Scientists say the fish should have migrated to warmer waters, but they were lazy and stuck around just long enough to freeze to death.

MediaIte claims it's the Apocalypse... Purely because that's more interesting.