Mondays are always a bit strange for me. A while ago on Twitter
there was a hashtag going round - #youthworksongs - and one changed 'Working
9-5' to a normal day of a youth worker, mine today would be 'Working 9-11, 3-5,
6:30-9:30, what a way to make a living'. But it's actually the gaps I want to
focus on today. Monday is the last day of my working week, and as I worked last
Tuesday (though technically had the Saturday of 3Gen off it’s my first day off
in 9 days tomorrow. This is, however, the first time I’ve sat at my laptop all
day, so emails will have to wait till Wednesday.
Anyway today!
Today was the day I’ve been dreading for quite a while. The
day Boyfriend moved out. I knew as soon as he moved in that it wasn’t forever.
We have always said we wouldn’t live together before we got married, but as he
got his job in nearby city and no real time to house hunt before he started, he
moved in and my study / guest room was occupied again.
Car has been playing up in the normal way today –but it's
off to the garage in the morning so that should hopefully be the end of that! So
any time I say 'so we/I drove here or there' imagine a few minutes of the car
not starting to add to the stress. I got home from my exciting Monday morning
meeting (not sarcasm, I really do enjoy it) to get the car packed up, Boyfriend
was mostly packed, had sorted the details and soon we were on our way to
letting agent office number 1 to sign paperwork, the cheap supermarket for
lunch then letting agent office 2 to get keys. Then finally to the house, where
Boyfriend met one housemate leaving for work and we moved stuff in, made the
bed, unpacked the clothes, had lunch, moved the furniture, drove Boyfriend back
to letting agent office 2 as there were issues with keys and I drove off back
to work. 2 hours later, I have an hour and a half to kill and decide to look
for a single friendly eatery (as you get funny looks in some places asking for
a table for one); the local supermarket cafe stopped serving at 5 (it was 5:05
at this point) and my fave pub for eating in didn’t start till 6. So off I went
to Indian takeaway for Chicken Korma. Realising at this point I had no cutlery
and stealing from a supermarket cafe is wrong I went and found plastic cutlery to
buy – so now I’m prepared for next nine times I need to eat takeaway in my car!
It was also about this point that I had a fab chat with a great friend, who let
me rant and work out how I was feeling –as well as making me laugh, before
going back off to work.
Today is a sad day. (I'd bet that there aren't many
relationships where moving out from your partner's house is seen as progress. It
is quite nice to know we can live together, yes the house is a bit messy, and
we argue about silly things but I still love that man. It has been a lovely
couple of months, and we still aren’t about to dance up the aisle (Though my
proof reader states “I'm not dancing up the aisle ever!” ), but I think we are
closer, and realistically if he can move out when I’m working at 11 and 3, I’m
pretty sure I’m going to see a lot more of him than I ever did when he lived in
that other country.
So yes it's sad, but it's another step on our journey,
moving on as well as moving out and I’m not going to become a wimpy missing him
kinda person, I’m a hardened Long Distance Relationshipper who is, as Jason
Mraz and Colbie Calliat sang, “Lucky [to be] in love with my best friend”
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