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May 22nd, 2010

#31

Music makes us feel closer.

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A couple of posts ago someone recomended us a song (I did like the lyrics very much!), and it made me want to share our playlist on the site.

Daft Punk – Something About Us (Our song)

Daft Punk – Digital Love

Incubus – Stellar

Incubus – I Miss You (This one makes us both cry)

NIN – We’re In This Together

Daft Punk – Face To Face

John Denver – Leaving On A Jet Plane (To be honest I like this version, even if I’ve never watched Glee)

Incubus – Wish You Were Here

(All are random links on YouTube except for Something About Us… that’s the link he sent me when we first started talking.)

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Girl.

May 12th, 2010

Out with the old

There has been a change of pace in my life. I have recently been let go at my job so that kinda puts a damper on things. But the Girl and I see this as a way to move on with my life. Anyone who knows me knows that the last 4 years hadn’t been easy on me. The only saving grace is that I fell in love with her. She helps me in ways that no one else can. This is why I have decided not to let this get me down, and once again, “with her support I feel like I can do anything”.

I have found an interest loose leaf tea, and it gets me off my ass in the morning during this hunt for a new job. When I was visiting Girl I was introduced to this regional drink called Mate. THIS STUFF IS AMAZING! I liked it so much I wasn’t going to go home without bringing some with me. Needless to say, getting 3 packages of Mate thought the airport was a fun trip *thumbs up to TSA*. I drink it all the time from the gourd I got when I was down there (I use my bombilla so much the coating is now tarnished). Mate is so much healthier for me than those damn energy drinks I used to drink all the time; it keeps me active for much longer time, as much kick as a cup of coffee without the jitters.

Back to loose leaf tea, I have found several stores that carry it here, and I’m amazed at the wide range of flavors they offer. I have a friend that used to work at a tea shop and he gave me an infuser with some samples of tea in exchange of some Mate. The green tea he gave is amazing, I liked it so much I went and found some samples online to try as well, as you can see from the picture. I am also cutting out most of the processed crap that was in my diet, trying to eat and drink better. This is all part of me trying to make better choices and live a healthier life for her.

Boy.

May 1st, 2010

#30

We both got sick at the same time, and spent a day in bed talking to each other on our netbooks. Conversations interrupted by coughing fits are no fun!

Girl.

April 24th, 2010

#29

The guy has been a bit obsessed recently with getting a tandem bicycle for us to ride together. The ugly truth is… I can’t ride a bicycle! I never really learned without the tiny wheels, haha. He says he’ll take care of everything but I bet I will crush us into obvilion (aka, a bush).

Girl.

AApril 17th, 2010

#28

Do you have sometimes that feeling that you’re just disconnected from the world? When something terrible happens, for example the loss of a person, and time just seems to stop and everything just feels like in a haze. In just a couple of years I had to deal with a lot of deaths, and it never gets easier to me. It happened recently, a persno I looked up to passed away, and I was (and still am) very sad. It’s sort of difficult that I’ve had so many experiences of this kind, but the Boy had none, so he doesn’t fully understand how hard it is for me. But that’s ok. I don’t wish something like this to happen to him.

We’ve gotten a couple of comments about a former post, and I think I should repost something I wrote in a comment before:

Because of my culture and personal opinion, I consider us to be still too young and too early into the relationship to live together (one of the first options for LDR couples if they don’t have much money to relocate). Luckily Boy agrees with my position. However, we are both exploring options to be able to spend more than a couple of weeks in each other’s country (be it work, education, etc). In the spirit of keeping this blog as anonymous as we can, we prefer to not give much insight of issues that are stopping us right now from throwing our arms to the air and just be together physically (e.g.: we mention money problems, but we don’t specify much behind that point.). All that being said, yes, it is one of our long term goals (if not, we don’t see much of a point on being LDR) and we hope that sooner or later it will become true.

We don’t think jumping into marriage is a good way to solve problems. We don’t believe in just doing it to have the possibility to be in the same country. We want to first overcome those obstacles, and then if time and the feeling is right, may be.

Girl.

April 10th, 2010

#27

Okay I was gonna post about the sad stuff that has been going on but this is too much to ressist (I guess that’s a good sign).

The boy is a very messy person. VERY. And I’m the exact opposite. He leaves things on the floor, the only thing you’ll see on the floor with me are shoes if I haven’t got the time to put them in the closet. He leaves piles of clothes while I put them tidly in the hamper. Bags, dishes! Agh! Ever since we started talking, while we were just friends, I encouraged him to be more organized. What happens is that he’s organized when he’s in a good mood, but if he’s stressed out, his place starts to get messy. So I gave him a deadline: his room had to be Girl’s cleaning standards by Saturday. Right now I’m watching him on Skype vacuuming his floor, and it’s so hypnotic, lol. He’s proud of himself and I am too, for we can see his floor now.

One problem though. He can’t remember where he put his passport *facepalm*. We hope he didn’t lose it as it had the Customs stamps, and as people would agree, those have a lot of sentimental value!

I can say we have been working on the stress and arguments. We do wanna show that all couples have their good and bad times, there’s no point in denying that (in our opinion, saying otherwise is a delusion). The difference is how much effort they both put in fixing that. And we both put a lot because we’re very stubborn! On a side note, a comment from our last post left us a bit confused. “Sounds like you both need to make more of an effort to make this a permanent thing”. We weren’t quite sure what you meant by that, but if you mean being able to visit each other, we sure are doing a huge effort and sacrifices for that. It’s just not easy when each roundtrip could go for about 1,500-2,000 dollars… If only we would have safe teletransportation available!

Girl.

April 3rd, 2010

Learning from misakes

One thing that these last few weeks have taught me, is that you can never be too careful when it comes to the ones you love. I have said some pretty hurtful things, and I have let myself down, as well as her. Some things can not be forgiven, and some things just scar too deep to let go.

Please learn from my mistake; you have to think about the things you want to say, every word of it. Because if you don’t mean exactly what the words you’re typing, or saying out loud, DON’T SAY THEM! You may not know how much it will hurt your partner.

I am so so sorry my love, I will not let you down like that again.

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On a lighter note, I might be getting a better paying job here soon. Also, she finally got her degree. Congrats Girl!!! I am sorry I couldn’t be there for that. If my job works out, I will be able to see you more than once a year *crosses fingers*. Wish me luck.

Boy.

March 20th, 2010

#26

DST and timezones are evil for LDR couples. It means that one of you is gonna lose sleep, and that once you get used to that pattern, DST changes are gonna throw you off again. IMO the best option is to get a laptop and talk in bed, weird conversations ensue. We have both been pretty stressed out and haven’t had the chance to do that in weeks, but I hope that once things settle down we’ll repeat it.

Girl.

March 13th, 2010

#25

It was one of those weeks again, where the only solution would be just hiding from the world. The bad news weren’t directly related to our relationship, but they affectus being physically together.

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The only good thing that happened in these past 3 days was that our Notebook didn’t get lost in the mail and he got it. We were worried about that.

We also thank you all for reading and commenting, we smile every time we see a new comment on the site. And some have been picking up some (not so hidden) clues. We’ll tell more of our story soon (as much as we can while still being anon), as some people have been asking for how long we’ve been together and stuff like that.

Girl.