back in the states…

my my my… i hadn’t realied it had been so long since I had written anything… time flies i guess. needless to say it was a bittersweet welcome back… I flew in on Friday night, finally got to Philly around 6:30pm which was really like 11:30pm Dublin time. I was exhausted but everyone wanted to hang out, so we went to dinner which was a lot of fun just seeing friends, and eating good Thai food. Then we went back to my gf’s place and just sat around a talked… I think i fell asleep a couple of times, then peoples left. My gf was like youre not going to sleep are you? At this point its 11pm philly time and I was so tired, but I knew she was horny… Needless to say we made the most beautiful love to each other, and i was knocked out afterwards… its like 1am at this point… the worst part is I woke up at 3 or 4 (8 or 9AM Dublin time), and was wide awake… I made myself lay there and fell in and out of sleep but could not get back into the deep sleep.  My gf had to go to work that morn, so I just went with her to get out of the house and to try and get some stuff done before school started. I wound up wasting the whole day just watching TV. I was so tired that I just didnt want to do anything. I got a little bit of work done but not as much as i needed to. 

Then Saturday night, I had planned to propose again (I wanted a better story to tell people). Again I was exhausted but I made us go out. We went to dinner in the gayborhood, and I wrote this letter to her talking about our love and all this mushiness… I started crying… then i popped down on one knee… The funny part about it was that I had hidden the ring in my underwear. I didnt want to put it in my pocket bc it would be obvious that I had it… trying to get that thing out of my underwear while sitting down was a task… it was so funny… my gf was like what’s wrong… and I just told her I had a really bad itch on my stomach, and she totally bought it… hilarious…

Anyway so I had more friends meet us at my gf’s bar as a little engagement party so that was fun, but by now its midnight again, and I am exhausted. the airport shuttle was coming to pick us up at 7am, so we had to leave our own party early. but it was fun nonetheless.

Then on sunday we fly to Chicago, and try to furnish my entire apt in one day… we got a bed and a bookshelf i think is all we really got. Then I started school last Monday and have been exhausted ever since…

Oh I forgot my mom came in on Wednesday and we told her, she tried to be excited but wasnt really ( I will have to write a whole separate entry on that), and then my gf (fiance right? i need to get used to saying that again), went back and forth as to whether we should tell her parent together or she just tell them in person… we decided to video chat them and her mom’s face froze… a priceless moment… at least she didnt start crying or something…

Well I must go to class now… I will try and provide more details later!