1 week!

It’s official. New Marine is coming out to visit next week! This time next week, I’ll be with him!!!!!! I can’t even wait!!! I’m giddy with excitement. This week is going to drag and fly by. It’ll be a weird combination. It’ll feel like it’s dragging as I’m sitting in classes or at work. Yet, it’ll fly by when I have time to prepare. I have so much to do: clean my apartment, clean my car, pick the perfect “nice to actually meet you in person, I think I love you” outfit, grocery shop for some of his favorite snacks and foods (like, I know he loves hummus and Greek yogurt, so I’ll stock up on both), clean my apartment again (cause I probably won’t do a good enough job the first time)…. The list goes on! I finished my outlines for school this weekend, so at least I have that done. I want to worry about school as little as possible while he’s here. I also don’t want to be completely stressed after he leaves. So, I decided to be proactive and outline ahead of time. I’m such a good student (she says sarcastically). I think I’m going to be annoying to all of my friends this week as I will probably mention a billion times how excited I am. I’ll try to not be annoying. It’ll be hard, but I’ll try. I finally got around to putting in a work order at my apartment complex to fix my stove. The fan is broken, so whenever I cook, my apartment fills with smoke and the smoke alarm goes off. I figure that if he’s here and we cook dinner, I probably shouldn’t kill him from smoke inhalation. That’d be rude. I have a few surprises planned for him. For his birthday, I bought tickets for a sunset harbor cruise. I thought that’d be fun. The other idea was an all-day whale watching trip with a 2 hour stopover in Catalina, but I think the shorter 1.5 hour sunset cruise is a better option. He loves boats, and is scuba certified. Maybe I’ll look into doing that at some point in my life. I just don’t know if my back could handle it. Or, maybe I’ll just go on scuba diving trips and lounge on the boat or the beach while he plays with the fishies. I don’t really like getting my hair wet anyway. And, with high def TV, who needs to actually go under water? The colors on TV are just as vibrant. So, I’ll just watch Finding Nemo. Oh, speaking of movies, that’s something else I have to do: pick out some great movies on Netflix in case we have downtime where he just wants to chill and watch movies. He told me that I don’t need to plan a lot of things, cause he just wants to hang out with me and doesn’t care what we do. But, I want him to have such a fun time that he wants to come back again. I’m already starting the campaign for him to come back for graduation. It’d be so sad if he’s not there. But, I understand if he can’t, cause tickets are expensive and time off is hard for him to get. Plus, he has a fishing trip in May with his dad. I’d rather he have fun on that trip than worry about coming out here. Well, the non-selfish part of me would rather that. The selfish part of me wants him here obviously. I’m looking into going out to visit him after the bar. I could handle a vacation on the beaches of North Carolina. And that way, he wouldn’t even have to take time off during the day. I can easily entertain myself during the day, and then I’d have nights and weekends with him. Not bad. I guess I’m kind of rushing ahead of things; we just need to see how this trip goes. But, what’s wrong with already planning my wedding to him? Is that rushing things? He’s coming to 1 class with me, so some people will get to meet him. The coolest man on the face of the planet, aka the Judge who is my professor, will get to meet him. I guess I should say New Marine will get to meet the Judge. NBF is in that class, so they’ll meet too. And then on the 2nd Saturday he’s here, It Girl and It Boy are throwing a party at It Boy’s house so he can meet everyone. I bought a new dress for that. I know that it doesn’t matter, but I want to look nice for him. He said he’d like me even if I wore jeans and t-shirts. I told him to not worry, cause that’s mostly what I wear. But, I can do it up a few times. I’m going to meet his uncle and his mom, so I’ll need to figure out what to wear then too. I’m not worried about impressing his mom. It’s the uncle I want to like me, cause I know his opinion matters a lot to New Marine. I’m a good Catholic girl who’s about to be a lawyer. Why wouldn’t he like me?? Last night New Marine was kind of hinting around to me moving to North Carolina. I guess he’s thinking about the future just as much as I am, which is maybe why we’re a good match. Man, I really, really, really, really hope we get along just as well in person. It’ll suck if we actually can’t stand each other in person! I guess we’ll find out soon enough!