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March 15, 1998

8:56pm

Hello, I'm back... Jevim should be on his way back to school from the Roanoke airport right about now, and I should probably hear from him soon. I'm sorry for not writing any entries while he was here, but I wanted to spend my time with him instead of the computer, even if we really didn't do all that much.

What we did do a lot of was to just be with each other, curled up together, playing board games, talking, cuddling. We went to the mall one day, out to lunch a couple times and out to see Titanic yesterday, but other than that, for the most part we just stayed home, curled up in my disaster area -- commonly known as a bedroom.

We were sick off and on -- sore throats, sinus troubles and headaches -- and last night when he had a headache that wouldn't go away (I assumed it was a sinus headache from the way he was rubbing his eyebrows and eyes) I gave him some sinus medicine, which seemed to really disagree with him. I had thought he'd taken it earlier in the week, so I gave him a full dose, whereas I only took half, and he got very sick very fast and really had me scared for a while there.

He got the pills out of his system, drank a little Seven-up and slept for a few hours, while I laid down on the trundle bed beside him and read in the light from the kitchen. When he woke, he was feeling much better. I felt awful for having given him the medicine and making him sick in the first place, but he told me that it was okay and that it wasn't my fault. I still felt bad, but I was more relieved that he was feeling better.

We spent the night on the trundle bed, since the sheets on the daybed were a twisted mess and we didn't feel like sorting them out, and we spent the morning cuddling and getting his things together. Mom wanted to return something at the mall, which was on the way to the airport, so we left a lot earlier than we needed to, and we had time to have lunch at Fazoli's before heading on to St. Louis. Even after stopping for lunch, we got him to the airport more than an hour before his flight. Mom walked with us to check-in and then said she'd wait at the car for me. I told her I'd be a while, as I wanted to see him onto the plane, but she said that was okay.

He and I walked to the gate, stopped in the little newsstand and again in the tinier bookshop, and still had lots of time to just sit together and hold hands at the gate before the plane arrived. We watched them service it, load up fresh drinks and so on, and then it was time for him to board the plane. The gate attendant said they'd be boarding the plane two rows at a time, starting at the back, so we thought we'd have a couple minutes to say goodbye. Unfortunately, he was in row 18 and that was the first row the attendant called, so we kissed and hugged and he stepped into line to board.

I didn't stay to watch the plane take off; I had been fighting a cold all day, and I knew Mom was waiting for me, so I headed back to the parking garage and found Mom napping in the driver's seat. I got out the money for parking, and once we were back on the highway, I tried to doze. Mom kept talking to me though, so I stayed awake for most of the trip. We stopped again at the mall because she'd decided to buy something at another store, and didn't get home til after dark.

I checked my mail (thanks, Gillian, I'll write back shortly), had some soup, took a bath, and now I'm sitting here in my Pooh jammies, waiting for the phone to ring.

I'm not looking forward to going to bed tonight. Jevim reminded me this morning that it would be my first time sleeping in my bed without him now that we've slept in it together. I remember how hard it was to sleep in the queen sized bed we shared at Connie's over last spring break, once he was gone. He also said that I'd probably want all my bears piled in bed with me, so it won't feel so empty. Probably true... it may have been a little cramped sharing a twin bed that was really too short for him, but without him it will probably feel huge.

Mom kinda surprised me on the way home; instead of saying anything to make me think she doubted I was doing the right thing -- planning to marry Jevim in the future -- she actually offered to trade bedroom sets with me, if I thought I'd want hers more. It seems that she understands that I'm really happy with Jevim. I overheard her talking on the phone to one of her lady friends the other day (or maybe it was Julie, since she said they'd talked last night before Jev got sick), and told her (whomever it might have been) that we were 'two little lovebirds', having a nice time together. Admittedly, we were more cuddly more of the time than we would normally be while he was here, but with both of us under the weather, it was really nice just to be close.

Yes, I realize I'm rambling, and I hope you don't mind much... I had a very very nice week, having Jevim here and all to myself. Yes, it would have been nice if we'd had our own place, our own car, and so on, but I'm sure not going to complain. Oh, we did get in to get our pictures done too, and I took some film in to get developed, with pictures as far back as last time I was in Maryland with Jevim. I can't wait to get them back!

In the pictures we took, we have a few of my cat 'playing' backgammon with us. She was wondering just what we were doing, laying on my bed with the backgammon set open between us, so she came up to investigate. Jevim pulled the folding chair over so she could sit there and watch, and as cats are wont to do, she tried to 'help' with the dice, and move the pieces for us too. Finally, when that got boring and we were paying too much attention to the game and not enough for her, she called nap time... literally in the middle of the game. Gotta love my brat, she's got purrrrsonality.

Like Jevim wrote in his entry, Munchie thought for sure I was leaving this morning... she kept wanting to play, and she even went so far as to sprawl across Jevim's duffel bag as if to say, "you're not going anywhere!". This evening, it was a different story... she wouldn't even headbutt my hand to say hello. I wonder if she would have rather had Jevim come back. *sigh* Oh well... at least she does seem to like him; that was something I was kinda concerned about.

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