Without My Wife - Day 2

I was up pretty late last night. I played my new XBOX game for a couple hours and was watching tv. I finally went to bed and watched The Wicker Man with Nicholas Cage and fell asleep around 3am-ish. The Wicker Man is not a movie I would recommend. Nicholas made a good attempt though. I heard my phone beep with a message shortly after I fell asleep, but thought it was just an email alert from my Yahoo account. When I woke up in the morning around 9:30am, I checked my phone and found that the message was a text saying "call Angela" with a long telephone number. After a couple attempts at dialing the number, I decided to text message reply to the number that texted me. I then gave dialing the number one last shot, and a beautiful voice answered the phone (sounding hundreds of miles away). What a relief to hear my wife's voice in the morning.

It sounded like they had a busy day, but we mostly just chatted about how she and I were doing emotionally. She said she is having trouble eating and is really missing me. I think her team is trying to comfort her, so I hope she does better soon.

After our call, I watched some Zune (actually re-watching the end of The Wicker Man). Then I got up and had some breakfast and watched some tv. After a little while I started playing some Blazing Angels, and saw that my little bro was online as well. He called me a little while later to see about seeing a movie with my mom and step-dad today. It was between The Last King of Scotland, The Messenger and Smokin Aces. We settled on The Messenger in the early evening. I mostly played XBOX and watched TV until leaving for the movie. Although I did pick up my guitar for about a half hour while I was watching a Tivo'd 30 Rock with Tina Fey. I realize I need to learn some new songs because my fingers were quickly bored.

"The Messenger" was a pretty decent scary movie about a family moving to a farm where the teenage daughter and toddler son start experiencing ghost happenings. That was my 3rd scary movie in as many nights (I'm including The Wicker Man, but don't know if I should really count it). I'm wondering if I can go for a "scary movie" record and see scary movies every night in February. Although I don't know if adding that to my loneliness will help my sleep pattern while Angela is gone.

I got home after dropping off everyone and played a little Gears of War on Hardcore. However, for the last couple hours I've been watching Psych and Monk. I'm hoping to get some decent sleep tonight as the volleyball team I coach (NW Juniors Tornados) is playing in a tournament tomorrow. We play in Everett, and I have to be there at 7am. I'm sad because my niece, Natalie's birthday is tomorrow and I am probably going to miss her party because of the tournament. I plan on stopping by after the tournament to drop her presents off though. I think it will make me sad though, as I'm sure Natalie will ask where her aunt Angewa is.

I did some reading on Zambia tonight. I was trying to see what kind of wildlife Angela might be running into down there. It sounds like there is plenty of standard African animals, including the ferocious Lion. I will remember to tell Angela to take Lion Precautions while she is there.















Last TV Show I watched - Monk
Last thing I watched on my Zune - The Omen (the remake)
Last meal I ate - Pepperoni and Sausage Pizza leftovers
Last XBOX game I played - Gears of War