Dec. 25th, 2007

chris_warrior: (blonde christmas baby)
i think it's possible that - between emails, livejournal posts/comments, texts, and phone calls - i had a "Happy Birthday" and/or "Merry Christmas" message from nearly every close friend i have. i feel, actually, a bit overwhelmed... and exceedingly blessed.

*warm fuzzies*

the phone messages ranged from [livejournal.com profile] raidingparty singing "We Wish You A Merry Birthday" into my voicemail, to Sam's and Christina's joyous multi-texts, to a very simple "merry xmas, chris"...

...from Jesse.

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i haven't told many people what happened to Jesse this fall, and i'm not going to now. suffice it to say i was suprised, when i found out he'd gotten holiday leave after all. he told me he was in Albany, but had to return to Fort Lee by the end of Tuesday. we tentatively arranged to meet, halfway between Syracuse and Binghamton, this afternoon.

i called a few places this morning, places i thought might be open for food, but they were all closed (i suppose the Christmas movie vignettes that portray Denny's as the fallback position of Fathers Who Can't Cook is actually Hollywood fiction). added to this was the fact that our own Herrmann dinner, which is almost always served and cleaned up by 2 pm, wasn't even cooked by then.

(this, however, is certainly not because i told my mom first thing this morning that i might go out later to meet Jesse... right?)

(right?)

to give him credit, the good private did offer, more than once, to drive all the way up to Syracuse and meet my parents. i thought about it for all of five seconds, but realized that - no matter how cute, baby-faced, and polite - my mother was never going to approve of him.

and no matter how much i wanted to see him - for reasons i can't even exactly fathom - i couldn't do that to either of them on Christmas.

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so the holidays came and went in a blur of talkingtalkingtalking with the people i love, but still wishing i could see them, hug them. people i know intimately, people who i've shared so much with, people i don't know all that well, or don't know well anymore, people who have touched my life in so many ways...

and yet only being able to connect with the majority of them via computer and cel phone. so this is me... pathetically thankful for my computer and my cel phone. ;)

much joy to you all, for i love you.

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