Tampa "Home Sick"...

It's what this medium is for, right?! To talk about how I'm feeling during these 13.5 months that my husband is away. By the way, it's actually 19.5 months once it's complete, but that's why I didn't post for about 4 months so technically that's another story :)

I'm crazy over Tampa today. I woke up feeling 'Tampa home sick'. When I think of why, I come up with these:

Most definitely, and most importantly, my Besties in Tampa. I miss (in alpha order b/c I couldn't BEGIN to choose which first) Amanda, Andrea, Christie, Jess, Lindsey G., Lindsay H., and Tracy. I'm sure there are more, but these are MY GIRLS and dinner date gals!! I wish I could, selfishly, transport each of you to Raleigh. You'd love it. I promise.

Why else would I be Tampa Home Sick? My commute to work is 30 minutes plus 15 to get in and out of the parking garage to office. FORTY FIVE minutes to get to work. Work 9 hour days (to have every other friday off, not a bad gig) but compared to my 7 minute commute in Tampa? It doesn't compare.

The weather? I got NO breaking in. The week I moved it was comfortable - mid 70s. Two days into it, it dipped low. It then raised slightly for the weekend, and now...it's bitter cold. ANNDD...it doesn't help that my walk from the parking garage to the office is within a wind tunnel. I knew I was NEW to downtown when I seemed to be the ONLY one with a pained look on my face as i waited for the light to change.

It's got to be one of those things where you want what you don't have. In Tampa, I begged Bill both times we went home for the Holidays to move me closer. I begged him through SERIOUS tears...my heart ached. And now that I'm Raleigh...closer to home...I have thoughts of wanting to be back in Tampa where he and I most recently settled. We have memories there....as a married couple. We don't have memories here yet as a partnership. However, I'm looking forward to that changing in 30 days...when he comes home for Christmas and New Years.

So again, I admit...this post is a bit of a 'whine' because it's what I've wanted. The problem is...I don't have entirely what I want and we all know who the missing piece is.