Leavin' again

Well, Nathan left this afternoon. To be honest, it just didn't feel real. We hugged and then both being very aware of the surreality (?) of it all just offered a casual, "Well, bye..." Nathan was gone for a week getting his job and apartment settled and then flew back for one day and loaded his things into a UHAUL and left again. He said it best in an email he wrote to Julie and I:

"It's strange being back in Tyler one last time before I move for good (and for only about 20 hours, at that). I feel like I'm already living in Albuquerque. It's like that weird awkwardness when you see someone at the grocery store that you haven't seen in a long time and you catch up and then say goodbye - and then you see them again two minutes later on the next isle - do you say hi again or just nervously laugh and hope you don't see them again because you already have that sense of closure that you don't want to have to mess up again?"

Tonight I cooked some good "nershin" soup with Josh for my parents. Not that details are important...but it was Borscht, a Russian beet soup that I learned from my Russian friend, Katya in South Africa. Pretty good. My body doesn't feel too great...but I am finally in bed. I have to get up fairly early to take my grandmother to another doctor appointment. I'm looking forward to next week when she has her knee replacement surgery. I will be with my grandpa for about 2 weeks making sure he eats and exercises! He's a bit crazy and she's deaf...

Well...I hate to keep writing nonsense...enough for tonight.