Made it

Yeah I know, I didn't post everyday like I said I would, but it was hard considering I had no web access between there and here.  The trip was rather fun! Lots of driving of course.  Batty and I are closer than ever because of it.  Didn't even want to rip each other's throats out, which we both pointed out would happen if it had been anyone else but each other.  Umm I guess I'll go into detail another time about the trip.  I'm rather tired right now.  sorry >.<

Thanksgiving Day

Let's see, yesterday I picked up Batty from the airport right at 1900.  Right on time.  It was great to see her again and I jumped out of the car to greet her, almost forgetting to put on the brakes.  >.<  We hugged for a few minutes and I reluctantly let go to let Batty in, so we could go.

The ride to Drums was rather uneventful, save for the conversations between us.  Expressing how much we missed each other and how great it was to be finally together in person again.  We chatted lightly about the flights.  About halfway we stopped for Wendy's, as both of us were starving.

Finally we pulled in the driveway of my Drums home.  Batty met my mom and my dog, last night and then Batty and I headed up to my old room to sleep.

This morning, we woke up and had breakfast provided by mom, spam and eggs.  Batty tried spam for the first time.  She said she liked it, but I'm not too sure.  Then I decided that it would be best if Batty and I were to go say hello to Nana and Papa.  That took about an hour, it was good to see them again.

Around noon batty and I made it back to the house, ready to set out to the Poconos for our Thanksgiving meal.  It took a bit of time for mom and the siblings to get organized before we actually set off.  Thanksgiving meal was good at Grammie Jill's and her friend's house.  Batty and I stayed for a few hours then decided to head back to the Drums house for showers and a good nights rest before an early morning start tomorrow.

Right now we're chilling in my, now old, room.  good day =^.^=

The Adventure Begins

In about an hour and half, I set off to Philly to pick up Batty.  She just told me she landed in Chicago a couple minutes ago.  Gah I can barely type with the excitement coursing through me.  =^_^=

I just got out of the shower too, making myself presentable, y'know?   Today has been filled with packing the car, reorganizing everything in my apartment so that when I get back all I have to do is load it all in the car.  I cross my fingers when it comes to fitting everything in.  But I think I have good odds.

Last night Batty and I Skyped for the last time.  Almost bitter sweet really.  But after I had sent her to bed because she had to wake up really early this morning, I tried to sleep.  Which sleeping when excited and nervous is really hard, as you all know.  So I watched a movie on Netflix, calming my nerves a bit and finally fell asleep.

This morning, however, I woke up fifteen minutes earlier than my noon alarm.  Mostly due to a million Facebook notifications sent to my phone.  I really need to turn that off.  Anyway, I got up, threw on some clothes and put together everything that needed to go to my mom's house (erm I mean our house), and took a few trips to my car.  Surprisingly, all of that crap fit in my trunk.  Phew!

Well I'm slowly getting dressed now and finishing the last bit of packing, like my toiletries and such.  Almost ready to head out the door, I have to be patient though, no need to be too early, I'll end up sitting there in the airport cell phone area.  Y'know the place where you can sit for a while and wait for the call of those arriving.

Anyway, I hope I don't speed >.<  See you in Wilkesbarre.

Only an hour more to go...

Tomorrow's the Day

Well my mom came today and picked up the furniture as planned, but at 11a sharp.  I wasn't really expecting that as I was still asleep when she called and informed me she was outside.  So I quickly threw on clothes, considering I sleep naked >.<   Only was half dressed and in the middle of brushing my teeth when she knocked on my front door.  I answer of course.  She said it was good to see me and that I looked good.  I shrugged and finished brushing my teeth as she rushed to the bathroom.

I grabbed a shirt and hoodie and showed her all the furniture that needed to go.  I had already dismantled everything yesterday night.  And the last only thing I had to pull out from room was the mattress.  But first we concerned ourselves with my dresser, solid wood.  We pulled the draws out and carried it out slowly and surely.  Thankfully we only had only one straight flight of stairs to go down, otherwise, I don't even know. ^_^

Then one by one we each carried out the remaining pieces. It was raining, though, the entire time we loaded all the furniture onto the truck bed.  I'm sure the mattress was soaked by the time my mother reached home.

It's uncanny how my mother and I get along when it's an almost business affair.  If I were to immerse myself, however, into my mother's world, the air between us would be much different.  Hastier, rasher.  The attitude would be crude.  My mother and I would most likely become dogs at each other's throats.  We are both alphas.  Now please, I do love my mother, just in doses.  And that is how I would like to continue to love her.

I can't wait to see my Batty.

And tomorrow is the day, the sun will bless our union once more.

Three, No Technically Two

Well it's a little passed midnight and today was the 20th which would mark the 3 day point to picking up Batty, but because I'm a little late, it is the 21st and two day marking.

Also the 20th of November marks Batty's and my 6 months into our relationship.  Now don't think Batty and I rushed into this whole thing of moving in with each other.  We didn't.  I mean it is a large step, for someone like me living in PA to up and move to OK to live with some girl I met online.  Though she isn't "some girl I met online" anymore.  And Yes, I met Batty online.  Back in February actually and since May 20 have met in person twice for a total of three weeks of physical interaction.  She's become the apple of my eye.  The halo to my angel.  The second pea in my pod.  I think you might get the point.

Anyway, what I had actually wanna to talk about in this blog and the reason why I started writing in the first place tonight is that I realized that I am, at this point, unemployed.  I do not like being unemployed, against the popular belief that I love laying around and being lazy.  Now see, I do like to have my down times and relax, but once I know that my work has been done.  I also like knowing that I will definitely have something planned to do in the next coming days when I have a job.  When I don't have a job or anything to do, I become restless, cabin feverish.  Sometimes I even dip lower into depression because there is nothing that is keeping me afloat.

I thrive on socializing, for being an introvert.  But I do love interacting with people.  I just love seeing how they react to me and how I can react to them.  I enjoy making people laugh and smile, makes me feel fulfilled.  They call me outgoing.

That's why I like having a job, I can interact with people and make each person, I come in contact with, smile.

And alternatively, I like it when people can me smile.  And Batty, well she can make me smile in so many ways I hadn't thought possible.  Sometimes my Heart hurts with the smile it keeps etched within it from Batty's love.

So indeed two days left and it all begins.  
 

530am with 5 days to go

is when it actually hits me.   I had fallen asleep fine last night around 330a like usual with Batty on the other end of our Skype call.  She had hung up and I was passed out.  But it was a cold night and I woke up about 2 hours later freezing my butt off.  So I lay there for a moment, dazed, slightly confused, and hurt.  I couldn't figure out why I felt hurt, but I trudged out from under my covers, grabbed a smaller blanket to wrap around myself and fumbled through the dark to the thermostat.   I stood staring at the the device waiting for it to kick in and I began to feel hopeless. Slowly, as I shivered uncontrollably, I heard the air rushing through the apartment vents.  I stumbled back, slightly relieved, to my bed.  I layered my covers with two more blankets before I crawled back under them and tried to get comfortable.  But I was too cold, painfully so, and somewhere within me something broke.  I sobbed.  Uncontrollably at that and I thrashed in my bed, trying to find some sort of comfort.  But I couldn't find any and I longed for my Batty.  I couldn't stand being alone in this cold apartment any longer.  I curled into a ball and cried, just letting it all wash over me.  I realized who all I was going to leave behind and that too threw me into another whirlwind of emotions.  Slowly I wiped my tears away and stared out into my room.  The sun was peaking up over the horizon and sent a dim yellow glow about the room.  I sighed knowing that I would have to wake up only a few hours later to go to work.  So I closed my eyes and hoped for the best.  Luckily I eventually fell asleep again and was finally wrapped in warmth.

Seven Days

Just like that creeper in the Ring said to whomever watched that strange movie.  I have Seven Days left until my adventure begins, rather than my life ending.  Although I suppose my life as I know it, is ending.  I'll be starting anew.  Some days this fact really gets to me, I truly grasp that I will be moving.  But others, I can't grasp it at all, I feel as if my life will go on in this perpetual state of hiatus, between living with no change and changing to live.

It's all yet to hit me hard.  And it might not yet until I get to where I'm going.  To finally realize I'm leaving all of this behind. Everything is being left behind.  Only those things that fit in my boxes will come with me.  And my memories...  they are with me as well...

The Plan: PA to OK

My girlfriend, Batty, and I are going on a trip!!  This will be the journey to start all journeys!  I'll be officially leaving my parents behind to start a new life all for me and my Batty.

Everything starts with Batty, when she flies into Philadelphia from Oklahoma at 7pm on Wednesday, Nov 23.
I will drive from Harrisburg to pick her up, greet her warmly, nay passionately!  Then from Philly we will go straight to Drums, where my mother lives.  Stay for Thanksgiving, which will most likely be in the Poconos with Grammie and her man friend. Then when the festivities are over, Friday morning, Nov 25, while everyone goes to die in Black Friday shopping, Batty and I will head back Harrisburg and to my apartment one last time.  We'll pack all my belongings and from there start our long trek to OK!!

Now if you're wondering why I can't pack all my stuff before I go to Philly to get Batty, it's because my car will be packed with things I'm going to leave at my mom's house.  Unless there is room when my mom comes to pick up my furniture on Tuesday, Nov 22.

So here is a very simple way to see things.  (I am Kitten btw)

Tuesday, Nov 22:
     ~ Mom picks up furniture

Wednesday, Nov 23:
     ~ 1700: Kitten leaves Harrisburg towards Philly
     ~ 1900: Kitten arrive at Philly, picks up Batty
     ~ 1915: Kitten & Batty drive to Drums
     ~ 2130: K & B arrive at Drums

Thursday, Nov 24:
     ~ K & B stuffs selves with food

Friday, Nov 25: (times to be determined)
     ~ 0800: K&B head out early morning back to Harrisburg
     ~ 1000: Arrive in Harrisburg, pack belongings
     ~ 1030: Head out again in, hopefully, the right direction!

We will most likely stop somewhere in Indiana for the night.  Batty said she had family there, but we'll see.
Then the next morning Saturday, Nov 26, we'll be off again bright and early.  Then Hopefully to arrive in Stillwater, OK, that evening.

here is a map then:
http://www.mapquest.com/?version=1.0&hk=10-y4eZ8kOi