Travel and ME's Birthday

I'm wiped out. It took me a solid two weeks to recuperate from my surgery. I then spent a long weekend in Burlington, VT visiting my nephew then spent eight days in Utah working and hanging out with some friends. This coming Sunday I fly to Santiago, Chile for work, then plan to spend a few days in either Rio or Bogota.

Between the travel and being laid up from surgery I haven't gone out much. ME visited me a few times while I was recovering and even made me dinner one night, which I thought was very nice of her. Bartender fell out of the picture for those three weeks, though, and I haven't seen DGII since that night we went out for dinner.

Things with ME are going much better than I would have originally thought. Her birthday is next week, but since I'm going to be away for ten days we are going to get dinner together this weekend before I leave for my trip. Her mom is in town so she asked if she could come along, which I of course said was fine.

I'm not sure what I'm going to get her for her birthday, though. I wanted to take her on the bike to a B&B in the mountains for the weekend, but I don't think it's acceptable in her culture for an unmarried couple to go away together like that. I may have to get her a small gift that she can open in front of her mom and then plan the trip and tell her about it later.

I talked this over with my buddy Chuck and he said "Are things serious with this girl?" I don't know if I would classify us as "serious" but I did say that I like her. Chuck said "Why don't you give her exclusivity for her birthday?". The concept is funny if you think about it, I bet that's a concept Hallmark would run with and do a whole line on.

All kidding aside, I have considered cutting ties with Bartender and seeing where things go with ME.

On a totally unrelated topic I heard that Kay and Roja (whom I haven't written much about but dated for a while when I first moved to DC) both got engaged recently. Then I actually ran into Roja Saturday night. We passed each other in a crowded bar. I would have said hello but she shot me a quick sideways glance then ducked into a group of people. She made believe she didn't see me but I could tell she did by the look on her face.