Well'p, here's another one of my annoying happy threads!
So life has been... hectic. My mother has been stressed out due to taxes (as has my grandfather, and I tend to be the scapegoat there), client emergencies, ever-changing schedules, etc. on top of which my sister's car ended up breaking down, and it being the timing belt, is estimated to be over a couple grand to fix. That means that the three of us have been sharing one car, and we have had to coordinate schedules as best as we can, considering I'm working and a full-time student and my sister's working full-time and a part-time student and my mother's working full-time running her own business as well. Crazy! And of course this all has to happen within the first month of school and starting after my SO left. I won't say the second goodbye was any easier than the first, or that dealing with the distance was made any easier. :/ It was all made much harder, really.
I had been absolutely miserable, and even though I managed to stay focused on school, climbing into an empty bed was perhaps the most difficult part of everything. Depression sunk in like I hadn't felt it before, primarily because there was this lingering energy and the memory of his having been occupying my house and room only x-amount of time before, and there were a lot of tears and upsets and, yes, I'll admit it, insecurities. The stress of everything else has not been helping.
So today I get into the car, and as I'm getting into the car, the mail "van" rolls up, and the mailwoman gets out of her car and approaches my mother. From afar I could see a package with my name on it but it wasn't until my mother handed it to me that I recognised my SO's writing! I tried really, really hard to preserve the brown paper, but it ended up being taped to the box and I was way too excited to bother peeling it off carefully, LOL. I pulled open the box and was immediately met with the scent of his cologne - absolutely lovely - and saw a giant chocolate Cadbury egg (complete with Crunchies, my favourite non-American treat), an inconspicuous looking plastic bag, post-it notes taped to the Cadbury box, four of them ("I," "Love," "You," "<3"), and then a post-it telling me to read the card first. I open the card, that says "I miss you" and inside "...a lot" and there's a long letter from my SO talking about the package and why he sent it to me, and it more or less began with him saying he knows how depressed I've been lately and so he wanted to send me something to cheer me up and the card was really light-hearted and loving and silly. I seriously wanted to cry! I never expect packages from him, and he kept this a total and complete surprise, the little [bleep]er.
But I was so touched! I don't think anyone beyond family has ever done something so thoughtful for me! And the plastic bag? A little tube with his cologne in it! 
Ironic, too, because I was talking about how I would like a birthday letter from him and then later in the day, voila, there arrives a letter! I simply wanted to share somewhere other than Facebook (first comment was from a negative ninny!) and LFAD... Well, you guys get it.
I was simply so touched by the gesture that I wanted to share (read: gush).
So life has been... hectic. My mother has been stressed out due to taxes (as has my grandfather, and I tend to be the scapegoat there), client emergencies, ever-changing schedules, etc. on top of which my sister's car ended up breaking down, and it being the timing belt, is estimated to be over a couple grand to fix. That means that the three of us have been sharing one car, and we have had to coordinate schedules as best as we can, considering I'm working and a full-time student and my sister's working full-time and a part-time student and my mother's working full-time running her own business as well. Crazy! And of course this all has to happen within the first month of school and starting after my SO left. I won't say the second goodbye was any easier than the first, or that dealing with the distance was made any easier. :/ It was all made much harder, really.
I had been absolutely miserable, and even though I managed to stay focused on school, climbing into an empty bed was perhaps the most difficult part of everything. Depression sunk in like I hadn't felt it before, primarily because there was this lingering energy and the memory of his having been occupying my house and room only x-amount of time before, and there were a lot of tears and upsets and, yes, I'll admit it, insecurities. The stress of everything else has not been helping.
So today I get into the car, and as I'm getting into the car, the mail "van" rolls up, and the mailwoman gets out of her car and approaches my mother. From afar I could see a package with my name on it but it wasn't until my mother handed it to me that I recognised my SO's writing! I tried really, really hard to preserve the brown paper, but it ended up being taped to the box and I was way too excited to bother peeling it off carefully, LOL. I pulled open the box and was immediately met with the scent of his cologne - absolutely lovely - and saw a giant chocolate Cadbury egg (complete with Crunchies, my favourite non-American treat), an inconspicuous looking plastic bag, post-it notes taped to the Cadbury box, four of them ("I," "Love," "You," "<3"), and then a post-it telling me to read the card first. I open the card, that says "I miss you" and inside "...a lot" and there's a long letter from my SO talking about the package and why he sent it to me, and it more or less began with him saying he knows how depressed I've been lately and so he wanted to send me something to cheer me up and the card was really light-hearted and loving and silly. I seriously wanted to cry! I never expect packages from him, and he kept this a total and complete surprise, the little [bleep]er.
But I was so touched! I don't think anyone beyond family has ever done something so thoughtful for me! And the plastic bag? A little tube with his cologne in it! Ironic, too, because I was talking about how I would like a birthday letter from him and then later in the day, voila, there arrives a letter! I simply wanted to share somewhere other than Facebook (first comment was from a negative ninny!) and LFAD... Well, you guys get it.
I was simply so touched by the gesture that I wanted to share (read: gush).
) and it's so sweet he did all that just to make you smile.
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