Monthly Archives: November 2008

my lady in red

9 days to go and I just can’t wait! :) my heart hasn’t stopped racing since the day she booked the flight! Well truthfully it hasn’t stopped racing since that morning i woke and read that message from her on Mingle! And each day now brings us nearer to our special day and the excitement just builds more and more. Once again today we had a chance for a quick skype and I got to see my baby once again :) Shes just back in from another outing, this time to WalMart! yes they have one there too, operating as an ASDA – WalMart Supercentre!

(From Wikipedia, Asda is a United Kingdom supermarket chain which retails food, clothing, toys and general merchandise. It became a subsidiary of the American retail giant Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer,[1] in 1999,[2] and is the second largest chain in the UK after Tesco,[3] having overtaken Sainsbury’s in 2003. Asda is Wal-Mart’s largest non-U.S. subsidiary, accounting for almost half of the company’s international sales.)

So here’s my super shopping Brit standing outside the afore mentioned WalMart. Quite a different look than hte super centers here, but none the less theres the familiar WalMart logo. my guess is pretty soon that star in the middle will be replaced with a world globe ;) Well all of this is just another example of how all this technology helps to keep us close by sharing the days events with each other.

Well i havent had so much to send her these last few days though, trying to get over a bad cold or maybe the flu and I’ve kept inside mostly. I did send her a pic of me after getting rid of some of my grey hair this morning! shhhh! LOL well I dont think I’m so vain really but I do hate having a head full of grey hair and looking so old. I’m not about to give in to it yet, but when the time comes i will go gracefully but until I can afford that “Just for Men” I will keep using it! ;) I dont have a before and after pic so i will just post the after one…

Magically the grey is gone

Now just to get the beard to match! lol well thats another day. Have to do these things gradually or i will look in the mirror and not recognize myself! Well anyway this is image Alison sees from my webcam during our video chats. I still think i have the better view of seeing her ;) Its wonderful these video calls, only it just makes me want to stop and look at her than to speak! As much as i love this I cant wait to give it all up and have her face to face though. Its been a long three years almost and if you think about it it has hardly been a months time we have actually been together in the same place! ?But we still have managed so very to stay close and connected several times a day without fail. Maybe the very rare occassion one of us was too ill or unable to use a pc or cell, but even those days we at least managed once to speak somehow if it wasnt more than a text.

I guess this post is more a ramble than anything else, just trying to pass the time until these days are passed anf we are where we were destined to be, at each others side :) love you baby xxxx

My baby on the skype tonight :)

We had chance again this evening to sit and speak a while but i think it was more looking and wanting to reach out and touch than it was talking! I do love seeing my Angel along with hearing her. Its been so hard these past months to be apart and separated byt this huge distance. Just the simple joy of ceeing and speaking is beyond description. Thank God for this technology. It has kept us very connected for so long now. I know even if we didnt have it we would still stay very close as we have a bond and connection that goes way beyond, not needing an “mod-cons” at all really. But I am still thankful we have them, though none of them can ever match that up close and touchable feeling, nothing.

Now I may get myself in trouble by posting this next pic, as my baby doesnt like to be seen in glasses, but I think she looks sexy in her specs! Works for me anyway! ;)Dont know why the lighting was diferent here though. When we first started the skype it was like this and eventually cleared up, guess it depends a lot on the type of lighting and the distance too we are from the screen. Either way she looks lovely to me! 10 days to go now, one day nearer to our heaven. Miss you so very much Alison mou.

Counting down the days until my beautiful bride is here in the States! Each day that passes I am lost more and more in an excitement beyond my wildest dreams

One week to go now! I see a few visitors from Cyprus have dropped in on the web site as well as a few from other parts of the UK, maybe trying to get an update on where Alison is at the moment. She’s in Sunderland these next few days, leaving Thursday I believe to head back to Birmingham to be able to visit her brother before leaving on Tuesday.

Cant believe its only 7 days now! we’ve waited so long and this last two weeks is seeming to go soooo slow! But its getting close now. This is going to be the best Christmas ever! I love you baby!

I made this pretty neat countdown widget on http://www.springwidgets.com/ . they have a lot of cool customizable widgets of many flavours to satisfy most needs. They work for all the major blog types as well.

yep thats Tracey!

yes this would be my daughter’s license plate. This crazy girl along with a few of her friends are heading out tonight to start shopping on what is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year. She’s definitely born to shop to be willing to do that! Well this old ma isnt about to even think of going in them corwded stores at any point today, I know these people and know how crazy they can get! I fear for my life! ;)

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a rendition of Alice’s Restaurant

Enjoy

Alice’s Restaurant from http://bookmole.vox.com/
This song is called Alice’s Restaurant, and it’s about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that’s just the name of the song, and that’s why I called the song Alice’s
Restaurant.

(more…)

OK technically its 13 days 2 hours 4 minutes and 20 odd seconds as I start this post, but I like the idea of a dozen days better! :)

Another Skype video call with my Beautiful Bride to be

Its still hard to believe we are finally so close to our dream coming true, less than two weeks now. I cant wait! This distance apart has been so hard on us, but always we manage to stay close, and Skype has been a wonderful way to keep in touch. its usually a very good connection and very reliable. Occasionally we have a bit of noise or interference, but generally we manange very well with it, and the added bonus of being able to see the other is a treasure beyond compare. for these last few months Alison’s webcam in Cyprus wasnt hooked up, mainly because her computer was a bit slow to begin with but also not the highest connection speed, So until she got to the UK to use JM’s laptop I haven’t been able to see her except in still pics. Its hard to describe the feeling of seeing each other ‘live’ so to speak. But I can tell you its one wonderful experience, even today I am feeling a bit off with a cold/flu bug, but just seeing and hearing her was the best medicine I could hope to have. :) The only hard thing is saying goodbye, even if its only a short while before we speak again. Miss her madly as it is, and with these days dwindling down I am missing her even more each and every day. But soon, in just a dozen days from now we will have everything we dreamed of and more. love you Mrs G Sleep well and sweet dreams ( it’s 1 AM in the UK now) ;)

My Beautiful Brit

YEA!!! Two time zones closer too! :) Just had a video chat on Skype and such a wonderful feeling hearing her voice again. And this time I got to see her too, her webcam wasnt hooked up in Cyprus, now that was an even greater treat! I love my Cyprus Brit Angel! luv ya baby! XXX

Alison Michelle 21 years old

This picture was among some of the things in the parcel I got today, I always liked this picture of Alison. I look at the key she’s holding and always think how now she holds the key to my heart :)

Parcel from Cyprus

Another parcel arrived today from Cyprus. :) I get so excited when these come in. Its mostly her clothing she has been shipping ahead. There’s no cheap way to get her things here and though the post may not seem at first thought to be the cheapest way to send it,  it actually is the least expensive of any of the methods I have looked into.  This should be the last of them now I think. Alison has been shipping a box or two like this about once a week now for the last four or five weeks. It’s always the most wonderful feeling comes over me when I get one of these. Just having her things in the house now are making it feel more like she’s already here. With each one that comes in I get more excited and the reality of our day finally coming close is setting in on me big time! We’ve waited nearly three years now for this, and I swear this last month seems to be dragging on so very slowly. The day just cant come soon enough for us now. Actually in just 4 days now she will be leaving Cyprus and heading to the Uk for about a two week stopover to visit her family befroe she’s heading on to become Mrs. Garazon! :) Whooo hooo! its almost here! love you Mrs. G XXXX