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September 07, 2007
Bon Voyage Boise...
...Hello home!
I'm on vacation at the moment. I went to stay in Boise for a while, which used to be my refuge for when things her got a little out of my control. It was great because I would see the people I loved and missed and I could fall back into that laid-back "boise" lifestyle. It's a feeling like nothing is dire and everything is going to be OK in the end. That just wasn't there this time around.
People's lives have changed so much in the last 2.5 years that it honestly felt like I wasn't visiting them, but I was visiting the people they had eventually become. I couldn't just pick up right where I left off this time and that kind of hurt. I guess I realized that you can only be a significant part of the lives of those in your immediate proximety. You are pretty much relegated to being a part of the memories of those further away.
There was also this unsettling feeling like they were reliving the past a bit by me just being there. I was like some crazy retro weekend to them. Just a stop-gap of memories before they went back to their current lives.
It's always difficult when you realize how much time has changed the playing field I suppose.
The beneficial part of the whole experience was that I really felt closer than ever to my friends here at home. I was constantly texting Ashley as if to feel like she was there with me. She was like the only thing I talked about the entire time I was in Boise! It felt like I was half a person. That's a really creepy feeling because we aren't even dating...
I did have Austin with me though, which was pretty cool. I stayed at his place and we watched movies and stuff. Austin and I have some very similar core personality traits. We are both home-bodies, we both like indie-esque music. When it comes to movies though, we are very different people. Austin likes him some drama movies. I'm OK with drama, but action, comedy... those are more my gigs.
Oh... did I mention that I got to see a couple new iMacs live and in person?
Boise has a Mac store. It's not an Apple store (as in it's not owned by Apple), it's this cool little store called "Mac-Life" which is superior to the little kiosk Apple stores you would find in a mall, but not quite as swank as the bigger, stand-alone Apple stores you find in the wealthier cities.
They had all sorts of Macs and Mac software. It was fun.
I saw it all through this codeine induced daze though as my Dr. in Boise (yes, I keep a physician there) told me I had broncitis and prescribed with magical cough syrup that made me feel like I could fly and made me literally dream sleep while awake. As in I was resting, and dreaming, and yet still able to stand up and walk around and hold conversations. It was pretty damn swank. I think it's in my best interest to lay off of it though as my broncitis is starting to go away.
I did get to eat at TGI Fridays while I was in Boise as well. This is a huge thing to me. If you've never been there and had their Jack Daniels Flat Iron Steak... well, you simply haven't lived. It's all that and a bag of chips... or rather... a side of garlic mashed potatos. Boise has some great potatos.
So I left Boise is a fairly big hurry on Wednesday, just wanting to get away from that vacant feeling like I was there as a guest not there to visit my former home.
I needed some "personal items" from Wal-Mart on my way home. So I roll up to this dinky town in Oregon (I hate OR by the way. Almost as much as I hate Maine) and I go in, and I'm shopping for "personal items" and all the sudden these TV cameras swoop around the corner and surprise the person in the isle a little ways behind me. They start talking about how she won some sort of local news station contest.. .and there I am "on film" in the background holding "Personal Items."
It was a rather interesting experience and I recalled why it is that I do the majority of my shopping online. So if any of you live in a dinky town in OR and saw me on TV, It's not what it looks like.
Now... off to write my next blog about the swank stuff Apple just announced!
Posted by Decemberice at September 7, 2007 11:31 AM
Comments
Hey J,
Once again, thanks for visiting me. I can understand how you felt with the whole not feeling the same, thing. I guess time finds a way to push life along... sooner than you know it... the people you knew are different some how. But just to point something out...in my opinion, it doesn't mean it's a bad thing because change is an inevitiable force, and it happens for one reason or another. Distance, well that's a whole different situation I couldn't help being in, and for my own survival...I had to go. My mother gives me shit about moving away all the time...lol. I did find myself talking about the past a lot while you were here, but you know... we don't talk much anymore so that's where we left off. I just felt I had to say something in response to what you wrote here. Anyway... stay well and keep in touch!
Posted by: Austin at September 10, 2007 11:16 AM