FB Friday...Why Not

I wrote this all out once then lost it so lets try again. I have a story that maybe explains a bit more about why I wrote my last post.

In the fall of 1988 I went to college about 30 minutes from where I grew up. I lived on campus but didn't really want to be there. I went to work at my Aunt's restaurant that winter to make a few extra bucks. I was thin and kinds cute back then so I had men hitting on me all the time. One day this gorgeous man sat down at the counter and I couldn't take my eyes off him. He was about 43 and had salt and pepper hair and these eyes that melted you everytime you looked into them. He liked to flirt and was well known for it. Of course I flirted back every chance I got. He came in one day and was bummed because his girlfriend left him and went back to her ex-husband. I listened and told him hey if you need to chat with someone give me a call and I gave him the number for my room. He called later on that weekend and asked me to go bowling with him. They had been on a couples league and he needed a partner for the last few games. I went every Sunday and we had a blast. He would pick me up early in the day and we'd go for a ride maybe out to eat then back to bowl. Sometimes go to his house after for a movie. Very platonic until one day I just kissed him! Well that started it! My parents found out that was why I had skipped all my classes and gotten .5 GPA. They told me to stop seeing him(he was 2 years older than my Dad) and of course that went over well!! I moved in with him a few days later and stayed with him for the next year. Well that's the back ground info...now the story.
We lived in a old house with a open loft room. We moved our bed up there so we could look at the stars at night through the skylights. I was scared to death of lightning. One night we had the most terrible storm and I was freaked. He got me up and we stood in front of the bay window and watched it. He was behind me with his arms wrapped around me! It was beautiful..chain lightning...lots of color. That had to be the most romantic night of my life. We stood there until it stopped then well lets just say the rest of the evening was even more amazing. (I run to look out the window during a storm nowand can still feel his arms wrapped around me). I ended up moving out a year from the day I moved in because I really missed my family(they didn't speak to me for a year).
We became friends again eventually. He never lived with anyone else after me. He came to my house for dinner every time I invited him and then in the summer of 1997 he became sick. He lived too far from the hospital so I invited him to come stay with me. I changed everything that was going on in my life to take care of him but in no way do I regret it. He moved in during August and stayed until he was sent to a veterans hospital in Mass. sometime in November. We talked hours on end and regained the closeness we had once shared. He was so sick that it was just a friendship but I still wouldn't have traded it for the world. The day I took him to Mass.(I couldn't stay with him) I kissed him good bye and out of the blue I told him I loved him. He hugged me back and said I know you do...and kissed my forehead. I never got to see him again. I had no vacation time left until the first of the year when I planned to go see him. We were hit by an ice storm (I worked for an electric co) so I ended up working --all vacation time cancelled until after---On the 25th my second day off after the storm repair was done, he passed away.
I didn't mean for this to be a sad story, it isn't to me anymore. I cherish the time I got to spend with him! I have to say that he was the most romantic man I have ever known and this is why I have never been able to be happy with a man that isn't! Most women would say wow bowling and watching lightning but really you had to be there...it was all in the delivery! Not fair I know but its just the way it is.



For my weight loss!! I hope its going to get a big kiss in the ass. I have an exercise challenge going on with a friend of mine so hopefully we can motivate each other.