Forecasting Plans

Wow time does seem to have a way of just going on by. It has been too long since I have posted, but not without good reason. First of all, I must admit that I am lucky to have my day job because it turns out that I am a crappy forecaster! In my last post I lamented about Richard talking about coming to see me the first weekend of the month, and how unrealistic that was considering everything else that was going on. I believe the comment was something to the effect of him coming to visit being as likely as snow in San Francisco. Well, I won't be too hard on myself because Richard did go back and forth on the whole idea the entire month of September, right up until the last minute. As I was making plans to go meet a girlfriend for dinner, he called me late afternoon to say that he would like to book a flight, if it was okay with me. Needless to say, yes it was very okay with me. It worked out great, I still saw my friend for dinner and swung by the airport on the way home to pick him up. It was a shorter visit than what we are used to, but it was really great having him in my space again.

The best part about the visit was that it was only four days until I got to see him again! I flew down south last Thursday and stayed my usual four nights. Even more exciting, that Friday Richard went to work and came home again before I even got in the shower! Being that such an event is so unusual, I was not able to post last week. This past weekend was also different because we had a solid itinerary for the weekend. We are chronic offenders in the 'what do you want to do?' 'I don't know, what do you want to do?' game. And that game gets old very quickly. At any rate, having the itinerary seemed to make the weekend run a lot more smoothly, so we are going to try to make an effort to make solid plans more often. That is a lot easier said than done. Especially when Richard is involved. He is terrible at making up his mind. Also, money is often an issue, since we spend so much money per month traveling. But the real obstacle is finding things that we both like doing, or compromising and finding things to do together. So I will be looking forward to reporting back on how we do. We see each other again next weekend. And so far, we have no plans. All I know is that it is great that we are back in our normal routine. I don't think we will go longer than two weeks without seeing each other for the rest of the year! So I hope we can come up with some good plans over all those weekends, especially over the holidays.

Speaking of planning, it continues to be strenuous still not having a clue what our long-term plan is. I continue to apply for jobs in Southern California, with no luck. And we continue to patiently wait to see what Richard's job has in store for him. It seems that some exciting things are in the pipeline, so hopefully we will have some more important planning to do in the near future. But for now, we better get started on next weekend.