Update-3.14.08

I still can't believe what happened to me last night! This is the stuff of movies!!

All week, I’ve been looking forward to my Friday night date with Mark. He has too – every time we talk on the phone (or in his morning text message) he made a reference about “Is it Friday yet?” or “Can’t wait for Friday.”

I know I have a busy weekend ahead, so because of that I’d planned to have a quiet, uneventful evening relaxing at home and catching up with friends on the phone. After one friend and I hung up, I was in the middle of calling another back when I got her voicemail and another call came in. I was stunned to see that it was Mark because he was en route back from his business trip. For some reason, his corporate travel agent booked his ticket to connect through another city on his way back here, so I assumed that he was being thoughtful and was calling to say hi since his return flight wasn’t due to land until 945 and we wouldn’t talk because he’d get home after my usual bed time.

I answered the call and he said “Sometimes, in March, Fridays come early.” I was like “What are you talking about??” And he told me to go look out my French doors. I got off the couch and looked outside and there he was, standing in the parking lot below my balcony with flowers!!! Turns out, he got 1 of 2 seats that were left on the earlier, direct flight. After clearing security, he had 10 minutes to get to the gate and he saw the flowers and thought that it would be a nice touch to his surprise!!

I told him the code for my back door and he came upstairs and we stood by the back door just hugging for the longest time. After we pried ourselves apart, we sat on the couch for awhile just catching up and talking about the week. I ended up convincing him to spend the night (it was about as tough to convince him to stay as it is to convince a 3 year old to eat a cookie) and we had a great evening together. He slept like a rock; I slept like crap (I wanted to make sure the cat didn’t bother him) – I’m totally exhausted today but it’s worth it!!

I have perma-grin and couldn’t be happier. Had to share!! :) I can’t wait to see him again tonight.

Ugh – but in true Nay fashion, I did something totally unsmooth. Mark was giving me a back rub and I was laying on my stomach and he was sitting on my butt… my hair was all wrapped around my face, so I brought my head up to fling my hair back… but instead totally cracked his forehead with the back of my head!! He has a pretty sizeable bump just over his left eyebrow – it was already showing up last night. I’m totally mortified and feel terrible – it’s even worse b/c he did something so kind, generous and thoughtful and I ended up wounding him!! God, I’m the least cool person ever – will I ever grow out of doing these mortifying, awkward things??

OK, so I feel better… he just sent his usual morning text message saying that it was “so nice to wake up next to [me] this morning … can’t wait to see [me] again tonight.” I think I can let go of the embarrassment… well, maybe just a little bit. Could have been worse I guess – I could have broken his nose!!