Josh is on a business trip, and it happens to be to all of my favorite places with some of my favorite people. It's completely painful to see the cost of how much it would have been to have us join him and have to decide to not go.
He'll be gone for 11 days, starting this morning when he left here at 4:50am via taxi (which I say because it just seems out of place to use a taxi here). Today he went to Akron, Ohio where the bulk of his stay will be. My parents and my sister and her fam live an hour and a half away. My parents have also turned their house into an amusement park basically, so it's paradise for the kids to visit. My parents offered to take the kids after the 5 day visit while I joined Josh to his next two places--how fun would this be?
He'll be gone for 11 days, starting this morning when he left here at 4:50am via taxi (which I say because it just seems out of place to use a taxi here). Today he went to Akron, Ohio where the bulk of his stay will be. My parents and my sister and her fam live an hour and a half away. My parents have also turned their house into an amusement park basically, so it's paradise for the kids to visit. My parents offered to take the kids after the 5 day visit while I joined Josh to his next two places--how fun would this be?
Off to Boston for another case, where I have three of my dearest friends living there and one of them is moving asap, maybe two. I love Boston and I love those friends. Josh would be working most of the time so I'd be off with my friends the whole time. And then...
NYC. Ahh, did you feel that? New York City. Feel it? It's excitement, magic; that's the feeling. We lived there for three years when we were first married and he was in law school and we've only been back since and it was for a funeral. We've been wanting to go back since, together that is, since Josh has gotten to go on business alone. I seriously dream about going to NYC regularly.
Before we left there was a new chocolate store opening near us, but not until after we left. I wanted to go sooooo badly, a whole store that sounded wildly wonderful for a chocolate store/restaurant and I was missing out. Why not open a little earlier? It's called Chocolate by the Bald Man also here: http://www.maxbrenner.com/home.aspx.
When Josh and I did go back, it was a very short trip and the only day we had to do anything was Sunday. I walked by the now open store on the way home from church wondering how bad it would be to break the Sabbath for chocolate. I've only been tempted so much one other time, and that was for a Subway sandwich when I was pregnant, also in NYC--they have delicious aromas pumping out of every restaurant there, it's torture!
This may sound ridiculous, or untrue, but in all of my NYC dreams, the Bald Man is always in them and I never get a taste, even in my dreams. Here it is, the only time I've seen the inside:
So Josh is going to take the Chinatown bus down after he's done in Boston, and go around all of our old stomping grounds and meticulously video tape the WHOLE thing Josh, the whole thing, remember? And I'm begging him to try to get something from the bald man so I can rest in peace.
To help me feel productive and to have something to look forward to while he's gone, I'm going to try to post something every day he's gone as a countdown. I have so much I want to post about and I'd really like to do one of those books from my blog or I wouldn't care so much. I'll try to put up real pics too since Josh would probably appreciate that while he's suffering through intense situations and bad hours. Sort of sounds exciting though:).
Q: Have you been to the Bald Man?
Q: Do you dream about something like this?
3 comments:
I feel it, she calls to me on almost every gust of wind.
"Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal New York haunts us still."
-Thomas Moore
(ok so he said it about London, but I think NY is much more apropriate)
I have been to the bald man a few times and for your sake I'll say it was terrible :o)
My youngest sister is coming to stay with us this summer and she said, "Do you think we can take a trip to NYC while I'm in town? I'd love to go back to the bald man's and get a chocolate pizza." Honestly, it's not the best chocolate in the world, but who can resist feeling like you are in an adult version of a gourmet Willy Wonka's chocolate factory? Thinking about it makes me smile.
I have a desperate love for a Thai restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen. Bob and I started going there when we were first married, and I still get tingles just thinking about it.
I’m so sorry that you won’t be able to come to visit us here in Boston. We would love to see you, and Josh for that matter.
Good luck with the girls for 11 days without a husband. I know that's got to be hard.
I say pack up and go join him right now!!! Who could resist that chocolate store and free babysitting. I'm drooling just looking at your picture!
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