Writer's Worshop: A Long Trip for the Perfect Day.

Well, its Thursday once again, yeah it comes around once every week, and that means that it is time for Writer's Workshop on at Mama Kat's. For this assignment, I have chosen to combine two of the prompts. I am going to write about what I would do if I had the day off from 'work' and a letter to some one I miss dearly. Ready?

I don't actually have to work at my 'second job' as an RN today but I am home with the kids, my 'first job'. If I had the whole day all to myself, I really don't know what I would do with myself. Well, I have a few ideas like, sleep in , go shopping, treat myself to a mani/pedi and a massage, go out for lunch, read a book, go wine tasting and wine shopping, sleep, dance the night away, and the list could go on and on and on. But in truth, what I would really, really like to do is jump on a plane and fly to Vegas. Not because I am a huge gambler or because I live a secrete life as a stripper but because some one very special to me lives there.

My best friend in the whole wide world and cousin lives in Vegas and she has for the past 3 years. I think that I will always remember the day that she left. It was a very warm, August day and I stopped by her house for just a minute to say good bye. It was not the good bye scene that I wanted nor the one that she deserved. She was busy, I had baby Hayden with me, we said good bye and that was that. We hugged and I drove away. Then the next morning, she and her hubby drove away across the country

It took a couple of days for the truth to set it but when it did, I cried. I sobbed like a blubbery baby for her. It was not pretty. I cried that we didn't get to say good bye properly. I cried for the fact that she was gone. I cried for the fact that my girlfriend was gone, the one friend that truly knew me. The one person that I could talk about anything with.

I miss her so much, even more than I think that she knows. I miss spending time together, shopping with her, talking about everything and nothing, being silly but most of all I miss that fact that I am not able to see her as a mother. She just recently had her first child. A very cute and beautiful baby girl. I miss sharing this experience with her. I want to watch her mother her baby. I want to she her as a mother and watch them grow into a family.

I have a another reason for missing her so much and it is purely selfish. See, I am a terrible long distance friend. I don't call, I hate talking on the phone, and I don't write. I have no excuse, there really is no excuses in this day and age. The world is so small but some how the distance across the country is so great. It doesn't make sense. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about her I and yet, I do nothing about it. I don't know why? Maybe it hurts to much? Maybe it just makes missing her so much worse? Maybe, I miss her more than I even know?

So if I had a day, well more than a day maybe a week, off from all my jobs, I would be on a plane so fast that I would probably set off the metal detectors and on my way to Vegas. I would spend time with her. We would play with her baby, go shopping, out for breakfast, talk, hang out, watch movies and just... be together. Now that would be the perfect day.