Ryan in the wilderness—day 3

Ryan left for the wilderness on Thursday afternoon. This is my account of my adventures without him.

8:45 - Last night I dreamed that I got a text message from Ryan telling me that he loved me and missed me. When I woke up this morning, I had, in fact, received a text during the night—but it was from my mom in D.C. I guess my brain took the beep from the text and told itself what it wanted to hear. Hey, if this is crazy, I like it.

10:00 – Still can’t decide what to eat for breakfast. Why is it that without Ryan I’m nutrimentally challenged?

10:30 – Ryan’s mom called to check up on me. Which reminds me: I’ve got to go Father’s Day shopping and to Costco this morning to pick up provisions for tomorrow. In fact, I’ve got a ton of errands to run. Which I’m not going to run until after I get this editing done. Which I’m having a hard time focusing on. (Who’s surprised here?)

1:15 – Actually finished all of my edits, which I enjoyed this time. Now the debate: Do I shower and get ready now or do I go SHOPPING! again and shower after that? Oh the difficult choices I have to consider without Ryan filling our schedule with silly things like cleaning and yardwork!

1:45 – Decided to shower and used up approximately 95% of our hot water supply. Decadent. Snuck a few sniffs of Ryan’s body wash, but it didn’t smell nearly as nice in the bottle as it does on him.

2:30 – Leave for more SHOPPING!

2:32 – Return to get necessary addresses.

5:00 – Finished up with SHOPPING! It wasn’t as satisfying of a trip as I would have liked. Still nothing for the walls in that room. But I’ve got more ideas and more fake flowers for the house so I can pretend it gets natural light. Also, went to the Costco in Draper—people were crawling all over that place. Like ants. Little Mormon-mom-haired ants. Decided I did not want to go home to an empty house, so I called Nick and informed him I was coming to visit.

6:30 – Baked muffins for Nick and me. Since mom and dad are out of town, he’s been staying up really late. So it was breakfast for him, dinner for me. I left when he informed me he had to go get ready for the day. Um, don’t you mean evening?

7:30 – Trying to decide: do I go to the gym or do I take care of some things around the house? Right now I’m mostly sleepy and have some awesome chick flicks to watch.

7:56 – HOLY SMOKES! RYAN CAME HOME EARLY!!!! BEST EVENING SURPRISE EVER!