Lonely

Well, it's official...Jeremy is now on the other side of the world, and he'll be there for 3 months. Actually, he's still in transit which means that I'm still terrified for him and won't be happy until I hear from him that he's arrived at his final destination safe and sound. I still can't really believe it. It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that I won't see him again until September - it's almost incomprehensible that he'll be away for so long. And whenever I think of it that way, in terms of the entire 3 months, it makes me feel almost sick to my stomach. So I'm trying to just take it one day at a time, and not think about it as a whole. I've re-opened my membership to Blockbuster Online and have finally signed up for a library card, so I'll be spending a lot of time watching movies that Jeremy has no interest in and reading books without him bugging me about being boring. Ha!

In fact, I watched an incredible movie on the weekend that I'm sure Jeremy would have hated (actually, we probably would never have even considered watching it together) - it was The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It's a true story about the editor of Elle magazine who suffers a massive stroke and is left completely paralyzed, only able to blink his eyes. He ends up authoring a book, "dictating" his story by spelling out words by blinking. It's truly incredible movie and I'm glad Jeremy wasn't here to complain about watching it - it's a French movie, and Jeremy detests movies with subtitles! So I guess at least one "good" thing may come out of his not being home - I get to watch all the subtitled movies I want!!

I'm also hoping to take up some time by "training" for the Marine Corps Marathon 10k that Jeremy and I will be running in October. I really want to run it in less than 60 minutes, which means I need to shave a whopping 10 minutes off the time I ran the Capitol Hill Classic 10k in! It will be tough, but we did run the Capitol Hill Classic with absolutely no real training (we only ran the distance once before the race), and so I think that if I can stick to my schedule I should be able to come in under 60 minutes. We'll see. I've started another blog to document my training/running so that I don't bore those of you who could care less...you can find it here if you want to check it out (there's also a link to it over on the right-hand side of this blog).

And that's about it really. Oh, and below are some photos from our camping trip with Joci. Check out the pictures of our bear friends!

Memorial Day Camping