It’s That Time of the Year Again

So my girlfriend Pamela is about to go back to Rice for her sophomore year in college, and my stomach is already getting queezy.  We have been together now for almost three years and our whole relationship has been long-distance.  We basically got together the week before I started my sophomore year of college and so when I say that our relationship has been a long-distance relationship from the beginning, I mean the very beginning.  The summers our both great and horrible for us.  The good side is we grow so close during the summer and have some amazing times together, and obviously we spend so much time with one another.  The bad side (you can probably guess) is that it is so much harder to leave because we are now closer than we were the summer before.  Despite the pain of only getting to see her for 3 full months out of the year, there is no other person in the world whom I would rather be with.  She is definitely the One.

I guess I started thinking a lot about this today and wanted to write about it because Pamela is in Mexico right now with her family.  I love that she is having a good time, but man I miss her a buch right now and it’s only for a week.  I can’t imagine what it is going to be like when she heads back to Rice in about 2 weeks.

For those of you who have done the math from the first paragraph above and think our age difference is quite large, it really is not. We are actually only 2yrs and 2 months apart.  I was always young for my grade, and she was the opposite.

I realize that I need to make this last week or so that we have extremely special, but I’m struggling with ideas.  If anybody has any input, please let me know.  And don’t worry, I’m house sitting for her family right now since they are gone, and she is going to have some pretty cool stuff waiting for her when she gets back.

Getting Out of My Box

So through a lot of mentoring from my Supervisor at work I have come to realize that I really do live in my comfortable “box.”  What I mean is that the only things I really know anything about are all mainstream ideas.  I live a routine life and I am tired of that.  I get uncomfortable anytime I approach the edge of my box in order to experience something new.  At first I hated that feeling of uncomfort and in turn would just avoid doing anything out of the ordinary, but now things have changed a little bit.  I kind of like the way it feels to do something I am not used to or experience something I would have never imagined myself experiencing.  It’s not even huge things that I am changing about my life, only here and there am I making some slight changes.  For instance, I am trying to watch movies that are not so mainstream anymore, or listen to music that a person wouldn’t normally hear on the radio.  I just want to see what it is like to wake up each morning and not take the mainstream path to life.  I’m a little scared, but I think this could be good for me.