While most of our relationship was long distance before getting married you would think being apart from my husband for one week would be simple a piece of cake. Last week, Max flew down to E3 for work and for those of you that are not familiar with E3 or what that means for me, I will give you a brief run down. Max is a contractor for CBS Interactives company Gamespot doing video production and graphic work. Each year Gamespot attends and streams live video footage of the weeks events- from the major press conferences on Monday to live shows and convention floor footage the rest of the week. Well with Max being a contractor he has to share a room and doesn't get his own which means I get to stay in our apartment up in San Francisco while he is gone which is nice for a day or two. While Max is gone on his work trips, he is typically clocking in 15-18 hour days so our time to talk is during his 15minutes getting ready before heading off to the trailer or war room.
It is funny because after we got married people began asking me what I felt was different or if anything changed in our relationship, and I would consistanly answer with it just feels right and that it was always meant to be this way. Well now after him being gone for one week, which is nothing compared to us living in two different states or cities as the majority of our relationship was! Him being gone for one week now felt as if it were an eternity and I missed him! I missed falling asleep next to my best friend after we watched an episode or two of The Good Wife, I missed waking up first and just laying in bed on my iPad and looking over to see him sleeping, I missed making dinner every night for us and boy did I miss him when it came to doing the dishes!
While our first week apart as a married couple felt like an eternity, I think we are both very lucky to have amazing people in our lives to keep us busy and our minds off the short amount of distance we were apart.
Max was able to work lots of hours and make some good money for our family of two, he was able to hang out with his awesome co-workers and learn about all the new video games we will be purchasing in the near future and get some pretty awesome headphones so he will be able to play games or watch tv once I fall asleep and not have it watch it with captions only!
I am lucky that I have two amazing sorority sisters who live about 10minutes away and will go to brunch with me and then spend the day walking around our city doing errands and ending the day with champagne and fun conversations. That my aunt and uncle are living in the city for a month and invite me over for dinner, for a glass of wine, for cheese, for serious talks and just entertainment of spending time with them. For hour long car rides with my aunt to surprise my grandparents and for have real talk and tear jerking conversations along the way. For having my aunt who is hands down the strongest most inspirational lady I know who will tell me straight up when I am being over emotional and that I need to get thick skin.
We are lucky that when we get to be reunited we are able to afford going out to one of our favorite places in the city to share chioppino and oysters and then find a dessert place to end with coffee and dessert wih highlights of that days World Cup! That we can go sit at a sports bar all day Saturday and Monday and watch multiple World Cup games while eating bar food --Helloo bone in chicken wings! For USA beating Ghana and the entire bar being one giant cheering crowd for the same team unlike during American football season.
While I might have rambled on just a tad, this past week really helped me see how being married changes things, and sometimes those changes go unnoticed but they are there. I am happy for our little week apart because I think it helped us see how much we sometimes take for granted the little things or how we don't see the little things that all work and build upon each other to form our marriage to form our family.