Remember when I said I didn't like to talk about my personal life too much on the internet? Well, this is an exception so bear with me, you guys. This will be a loooong post. It's not too late to jump ship! The first part is just a blog post, the second part is a review of some more stuff I bought, so you can skip all the cheesiness and scroll down if you so please.
Yesterday, we dropped off Daniel at the airport. It's funny, up until the day he left, I was totally calm and fine about it, but then the waterworks really started when we were driving to the airport (which is why I wore my sunglasses in the car so no one could really tell haha). I can't believe he's finally in Europe now! I kind of owe it to him that I'm also studying abroad because if he hadn't shown me the UMD Education Abroad website, I would have never even considered it. I just always assumed it wasn't going to happen for me because of my credits, but I was wrong!
On his last night at home, all of us went to dinner together. I guess it was for multiple occasions; Daniel going off to school, his parents' anniversary, and his sister's birthday. I really need to redo my roots... maybe I'll just go back to my black hair so I don't have to deal with it. I've also gotten really into wearing solid colors. I'm still figuring out what colors, patterns, and cuts of clothing look good on me. Still don't know.
The last Daniel Frank grilled cheese for a few months :( (He makes the best grilled cheeses. Look at that cheese oozing out from between the bread)
Aaaand it was finally August 16th. I always forget how emotional of a person I am until things like this come up. I think I have a Pavlov's dog kind of thing going on with the airport. Airports just make me cry! Either from sadness because I have to say goodbye to someone, or from happiness because I get to be reunited with someone.
Daniel waiting to get his bags checked and his boarding passes printed out. I thought it was funny that Icelandair and Lufthansa (the airline I booked) were right next to each other. In two weeks, that'll be me!
We walked around for a little bit after that because I don't think any of us really wanted to say goodbye just yet. But then 6:30 rolled around and we had to send him off. I definitely started crying again at this point, and I knew that would happen so I wore VERY minimal makeup.
I would just like to say that this was not my idea. Mollie was taking a picture of us and then she told us to kiss. It went like this:
*click* *click* "Okay, now kiss."
Me and Daniel "What? Seriously? No!"
"Yes! Just do it!"
You really can't blame me for this cheesiness. Unfortunately we left immediately after saying goodbye, so I didn't get to watch his flight take off or anything. I probably would have cried more lol. Also, Dulles isn't built in a way that you can really do that. The runway is kind of far from the actual airport. In an ideal world, I would have stood near the window and watched the plane fly away just like Pam did in The Office when Michael left (Spoilers? Sorry, I don't really feel bad because the show ended like 4 years ago and everyone knows he left) and she just barely caught him walking to his gate. But this is not a perfect world, this is a world where we have to be home for dinner.
I think Daniel leaving made it seriously feel like my flight date was even closer. I only have 12 days until I leave too, and I've started packing. Kinda. If you count finding my suitcases and opening them up and leaving them on my floor as "packing", then yeah, I've packed.
Also, I'm always looking for ways to improve my blogging. I've never done anything like this before, so I'm figuring it out as I go. I'm totally open to suggestions and critique! I think I'm already aware that my posts have a lot of me-rambling-on-about-nothing, so I'm working on that. What can I improve about the formatting? Content? Post frequency? More pictures? Less pictures? If you tell me what you think, I'll love you forever! You can reach me on Twitter. Just try not to be too mean ;)