Monday, September 30, 2013

Fair Day not so fair…


The anger I have been holding in since you left finally overtook me.  I am surprised that I am still married.  Poor Charlie. (I know that’s what you would say.) I suppose when I have suppressed my feelings I should probably stay away from alcohol. It was ugly. Really ugly. It was so bad I don’t even want to tell you.  I literally went off the deep end.  

So we went to the fair, and had a fairly okay time.  I got intoxicated. Surprise to hear that, I know!  I have pretty much avoided alcohol, or at least, high volume consumption, since you have been gone. Not Friday night.  Friday night, I drank and the more I drank, the angrier I got.  Obviously I could not define it at the time. I was strictly pissed; pissed that Scottie was eating my corn dog; pissed that he talked to three girls while I was buying my corn dog; (they were not even remotely attractive) pissed that he talked to his friend while I was dodging sexual innuendos from another dude.    

Really though, those were just my drunken excuses to really express all the anger I have been harboring because you are gone.   I wish I would have realized that before I decided to jump out of the truck 5 miles from home, throw his wallet across the street, and decide to walk the remaining distance home, at midnight, in the grass with the biggest mosquitoes ever to have been on the earth, in my cowboy boots. What an idiot. Scottie even drove around looking for me… but I took short cuts; over some fences.  Then he finally found my drunken ass; 2 blocks from home.  And gave me a ride back home; at which point I punched his dashboard, until it cracked.   And then decided to get in my car and drive it from u-turn to u-turn as fast as I could.   And then he called me. And I went back home. And I cried. I cried violently. I cried uncontrollably.  I cried until I could not breathe. And he held me and said he understood.

I am not at all proud of my actions.  Anyone else would call me a complete psycho, and probably had me committed.  How on earth he kept his cool, I’ll never know.  The next day he asked me to meet him for breakfast.  I adamantly apologized. And he forgave me.  Later in the day he sent me a song; ‘Islands in the Stream’ by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.  It is my favorite song. Up until Saturday I don’t think I ever fully grasped the meaning.  I do now.  And I am sincerely blessed to have a man in my life like Scottie. We truly will “rely on each other.”  

I will do my best to not take him for granted.  To tell him daily how much he truly means to this Angry, unbalanced, psycho girl. And as he requested, I will do my best to not be those things, and instead be the happy, free-spirited woman he fell in love with.  After all, those were the qualities you taught me. Those characteristics were our bond.  And I know, above all else, you want me to be happy; it was your life’s mission.  Mission accomplished.

Love you and miss you,

Krissy

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