The L-Bomb!

August 30, 2002

Chris's grandparents on the Richards side spend every labor day weekend down in San Carlos, Mexico and this year they paid for their entire family to go down with them for TEN DAYS! Now, this sounds like a very nice trip but for me it sounded like PURE TORTURE! Chris took me out to breakfast then dropped me off at my house for our final goodbye before he left with his family and he left me a dozen red roses. (Since he was going to be in Mexico he wouldn't be able to call me or anything.) Before I get to the good part I need to tell you what I did for him. I bought this awesome hallmark (fresh ink!) card that had a baby on the cover, covering it's eyes and on the front it said "One... two... three... four... ok you can come back now." (It still makes me want to cry everytime I think about it) then I wrote him a long letter saying how much I would miss him and care about him... blah blah blah. And I made him a mixed CD. It was the very best mixed CD EVER, it will put all the ones you ever made to shame. I called it Mexican Favorites. Each song was either about missing him or had some sort of connection to our dating story.

1. Island in the Sun - Weezer (WEEZER OH YEAH!)
2. I Miss You - Incubus
3. Tomorrow - Eve 6
4. All the Small Things - Blink 182 (I hate this band but Chris really likes them)
5. Your Song - Ewan McGregor (He watched Moulin Rouge for the first time with me)
6. You Belong to Me - Lifehouse (We ended up dancing to this for our first dance)
7. Eighteen - Hometown Hero (saw them in concert)
8. My Name is Jonas - Weezer (Chris favorite Weezer song)
9. Screaming Infidelities - Dashboard (saw them in concert)
10. Eidleweiss - Sound of Music (the song I made him sing me before our first kiss)
11. Bed of Lies - Matchbox 20
12. Distance - Evan and Jaron
13. You're so Vain - Carly Simon (just to be funny)
14. Elephant Love Medley - Moulin Rouge
15. Save it for Later - Splendor (saw them in concert)
16. Complicated - Avril Lavign (saw her in concert)
17. Yellow - Coldplay
18. Everything - Lifehouse

So I gave him this card and told him not to open it til he got there and we hugged and he whispered in my ear, "I love you" and it was so so so sweet but I had told myself I wasnt' ever going to say it back right away because I wanted to do it on my own time so I said "thank you". (cue regret here) We kiss goodbye and he's gone. (He later told me he ended up reading the card when he got to the car. I don't blame the guy! I just said thank you to his meaningful I love you! I was an idiot!) Well, I didn't know what to do. I went to work and then my BFF Elisa came into town for the weekend so I went out with her after work and I told my friend Brett what I did and he told me to call him right then and tell him. So I did, and I got his voicemail and told him I loved him on the voicemail. For the entire time Chris was away I filled his voicebox with messages. Thank goodness he gave me his code so I could get in and delete the ones where I was totally psycho.
To relieve some of the stress of my stupidity me and Elisa took about a zillion different pictures with these flowers.

(Chris in Mexico holding his nephew)