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Only one more week to go until Mark is home. I pick him up at the airport next Sunday at about 7:45 am (his plane arrives at 6:40 am and he has to go thru customs first). I cannot wait to see him. I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning. (Let the crude puns begin!)
It will be nice to have him home. This apartment is too big for one person. It would be different if Zoey was still around. She helped. But all by myself and no one to talk to you, gets very lonely and weird here.
And the cool thing is that Animal Logic would like to have Mark back. It might not happen for a year, but if Mark gets his wish, it will happen. But this time, I AM going with him. We will NOT be apart this long ever again. The nice thing about Australia is that I can also work under his work visa since we are registered domestic partners. And I really don't care what type of work I get while I am there. All that matters is that I am with Mark and we are living in frakking Sydney! :o)
I SO CAN'T WAIT FOR MARK TO GET HOME!!!
The image has finally been released! It looks great. And I still cannot believe I was naked with Mark and 5200 of our "closest" friends. The funny thing is that some of his friends I met for the first time at this event. Talk about getting past the awkwardness quickly. ha haMark and I were near the top on the right side (looking at the photo), nearly in front of the dome on the right. We are in the picture, but you would need a strong magnifying glass to pic us out. I will see better once we get our free prints. We each get one since we both participated.
I figured since I turned 40, I should do something I would never do normally. Because of this event, I have definitely gotten over some body image issues. Plus the underwear party (standing around in only my boxer briefs and boots) and pool party with 80 strangers, helped too.
YEAH! Mark will return home on September 12th!! FINALLY!! Guess the Kolas had enough of him. ;o)
Unfortunately, he comes home on the same flight I took back from Australia on Delta. It comes in at 6:40 am. But who am I kidding. I probably won't get much sleep the night before. I will be too excited. Just like a kid before Christmas. ha ha
Mean time, I have been working a temp job. It is not too bad. Only take a few calls during the day and enter orders in the system for headsets (the kind used in call centers). It pays the bills (barely) and it is close to home. And the nice thing about it is that when I am done, I will be qualified for unemployment. Unless they decide to bring me on permanently or my contact at Apple One lines something else up.
Now to start cleaning this place to Mark's standards. Where did I put that jack hammer??...
Well, it has been a month now that I have been unemployed. Nothing yet. I have had a few nibbles. But no one has bit yet. I am already signed up with Apple One and Act One temp agencies. But so is everyone else. :o( I think tomorrow I am going to email Vanessa and Carl at Ross and see if there is any opening there. I would even be happy with reception. At least I would know I would have Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas and New Year off. Something has to work out soon, right?
It looks like Mark will be home the Sunday of Labor weekend, the 5th of September. Just in time for our 9th anniversary. I cannot believe it has been 9 years. I am looking forward to many more years with him.
Trying to keep positive thoughts...
Talk about your mixed feelings. I am no longer at "Hell Net" (which is good for my sanity) but I am not gainfully employed at the time (not good for my sanity). I am back to trying to find work again. I do hope something works out soon. I am down to my last $60. Thank god Mark is paying the rent. Next week, I start registering with temp agencies. I may hate working for them, but it will be income. And if I am with them still when Mark comes home, it will be easier to take some time off to visit his family with him.
This being apart from Mark has been VERY hard. I will NOT do this again. Next time, I will go with him no matter what. Or he will have to make sure it is a place he can come home on regular basis (at least once or twice a month). I am OVER the long distance thing. We did it for 5 years in the beginning. We do not need to do this anymore.
It has been 2 months now since I had to have Zoey put to sleep. That is by far the worst day in my life. Yes, I did loose my dad and my grandmother as well before this. But I was not there when they moved on and I was not alone. With Zoey, I was there holding her when she went and I had to watch her die alone. Unfortunately, Mark was (and still is) on a job contract in Australia. Or he would have been there with me. Luckily, our good friend Jeff was able to spend most of the day with me and give me a shoulder to cry on later in the day.
I know it was the best thing to do for her since she had been very sick (hyper-active thyroid) and was not getting better despite the medicine. Plus the arthritis in her hips was getting so bad she could barely walk. Nor could she get to her litter box on time. So she was peeing where she was. In the interest of "Quality of Life", I had her put to sleep on January 2, 2010. She now is at peace and her remains (I had her cremated) are in a nice cedar box on the bookshelf near our front room bay window where she liked to look outside. She was truly loved and lead a full life.
