The Heart Grows Fonder

So the phone just rang. It rang that special ring that it does when it’s a long distance call. I swear my heart jumped. Joy swirled in my mucus filled head. I rushed over to the phone only to find the number was an 800-number. Phone solicitors, not my sweetie. Rats!!. The poor young lady calling was doomed even before I picked up. I was nice, I usually am unless they give me reason not to be. Like the guy who called once and asked if I could donate $100 like I did last year. Huh? Did he think I was too stupid to remember that I have never given $100 to any phone solicitor ever? Yeah, I was rude to him. But this young lady almost made me laugh. I listened to her script and then she said, “so we are axing you for…”  Yes axing. Apparently phone solicitors have resorted to violence.

Anyway, nobody gets anything from me. Not for a while. I’ve committed a good sum of money annually for the next 5 years to the non-profit where I am on the board. We are building a new facility. One of these days I will tell you all about it. But not today.

The good news is that I am starting to feel better. I wasn’t at all this morning. Today was the worse that I felt so far with this cold, and I was sure it was spreading into my lungs. But not so.  As the day went on, I wavered back and forth between feeling great and wanting to go home to bed, but by 3pm or so I was feeling fine. Let’s hope that trend continues. I have tickets to the Red Wings game on Friday vs. Chicago. Me and three buddies. Afterwards I think a night out with boys is in order,  I better be up for it.

So it’s been about 49 hours now since I last spoke to Kelly. She is at the cottage and there is no phone, so we are cut off from each other. The knowledge that I cannot contact her even if I needed to is making me nuts. It’s making our being apart so much harder to bear. I’m not bouncing off the walls or sulking around or anything, it’s not like that. It just feels more, I don’t know, apart. It’s true what they say about absence.