And off he goes!

Thursday afternoon. In about an hour, TCB should be landing in Liberia, Costa Rica to begin his week of diving and fun. While I will admit to a little bit of anxiety due to the fact that he's with a female friend, we had a really great discussion the night before he left that made me feel much better.

While we were at Olive Garden having dinner on Tuesday, TCB brought up the fact that he'd been pretty surprised that Old Friend Girl (henceforth to be known as OFG) had asked him to come along on this trip. When I asked him why that was, he said that he'd asked her to go on a wine tasting trip to Central Coast California in the spring and she'd told him then that it was just too hard doing things with him and just being friends. (Lord, have I been in that situation a million times!) When he mentioned that to her recently, she told him that she was over that and wanted to be friends. I sincerely hope for her sake that she sticks to that because I've made the mistake of trying to force a "friend" situation into a "lover" situation and it's never ended without tears (mine) and unhappiness (both of us). I trust TCB even more than I did before because he brought it up to me without my even asking and didn't try to hedge or avoid it. Sometimes I wish I could tell him that I love him. (And then I wake up and realize that he has to say it first!)

I'm off to one of those "sell lots of crap to your friends at a house party" thingies tonight and it's one of TCB's neighbors. She's the same one that's feeding the kittens so I'm going to borrow the key to his apartment and go visit my little babies. I just want to cuddle them forever and ever because they're so adorable and sweet and I know they're going to miss him terribly. (I'm going to donate whatever I end up buying at the party because you know it's always cruddy stuff!)