I've taken a few days off, as you may have noticed. It wasn't entirely on purpose. My thoughts have been consumed by departures and I've not been feeling very entertaining.
The ThaiPrincess left for Thailand early this morning. She stayed with a friend last night. She's been packing for weeks, but little bits of things, left--power strips and a pair of wooly slippers, began surfacing and being discarded. There are some pillows and blankets and the bag of trash I told her I would take out.
She's really leaving.
There's more recycling but less food on the shelves. We don't leave the light on for her anymore, but I still wait to hear her come in and call Sprocket, "Hey Kid."
I don't hear her lightswitch make the snappy sound and Spring is missing a person to stare at when begging for food. She won't answer the phone now so I won't hear people confess, "I thought it was you!"
It's a strange and sad transition. If she were moving across town it wouldn't feel so bad. But she's going to Thailand. That's far. But it is exotic.
I'm glad that it's exotic. And she wants me to visit. So I now have a friend in an exotic land who wants me to come and see her! There are worse things in this world.
Still, I miss her already. And there are certainly better things than that.
Posted by dotty at January 17, 2004 11:49 PM