My husband and I spent the first five months of our relationship IM’ing back and forth between West Virginia and Delaware. All I can say is, yep, that’s exactly what its like. Long-distance relationships can work out! Good luck to you both.
My husband was in Korea for the year before our wedding. Then on several deployments our first few years. Even after getting out of the army, we’ve had three long distance moves where’s he’s had to go on ahead. It’s hard, very hard. And if it don’t kill ya’, it really will make you stronger.
So far we haven’t been apart, except when I was overnight in the hospital; but my husband and I do IM each other from separate rooms of the house (instead of yelling across the house):
Especially since, geekily, I just loaded a google clock on my home page to tell me what time it is in Tokyo so I can figure out when my husband might be up to IM me.
yeah, did I mention that we just moved into a new house and they sent him to TOKYO and KOREA for a month or so? *sigh*
Been there, done that. My husband and I met online in a Christian chat room seven years ago, in the early days of ICQ. We had hours and hours of conversations like that. We have random ones saved and occasionally we uncover them and get quite a laugh out of it. And recently I read about something called ‘couple-surfing’ which is a couple, each with their respective computers, sitting next to each other, surfing the internet, reading each other excerpts of what they find. We totally do that! Yes, we’re geeks. And we love it
So funny! I looked at this just as I hung up from my hubby (who’s across the street in his office). We were simultaneously finding our house on the “wikimapia.org”.
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (read-aloud to Beanie)
The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell (middle-grade novel about a young Spanish cartographer's travels with Coronado in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola)
Hey, what happened to all those booklists you used to have in your sidebars?
They're still accessible at melissawiley.typepad.com, where this blog lived from January 2005-March 2008. You can also find all my Lilting House posts there, or try the search bar here. All my previous Bonny Glen and Lilting House posts have been imported to this site.
(a work in progress)
The Story of Ping by Marjorie Flack
My First Mother Goose illustrated by Rosemary Wells
Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton
The Maggie B by Irene Haas
James in the House of Aunt Prudence by Timothy Bush
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Tintin books by Herge
Showcase Presents a line of comic books published by DC Comics
(I posted about them here)
Whinny of the Wild Horses by Amy Laundrie
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
My Father's Dragon series by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Wheel on the School by Miendert Dejong
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman
The Swallows & Amazon books by Arthur Ransome
Many more to come, when I have time!
Kids' reading lists, nature notes, snarky exchanges with husband, etc
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My husband and I spent the first five months of our relationship IM’ing back and forth between West Virginia and Delaware. All I can say is, yep, that’s exactly what its like. Long-distance relationships can work out! Good luck to you both.
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 11:43 amElizabeth Foss says:
LOL! I laughed until I contracted. This is SO you two!
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 11:48 amKatie says:
My husband was in Korea for the year before our wedding. Then on several deployments our first few years. Even after getting out of the army, we’ve had three long distance moves where’s he’s had to go on ahead. It’s hard, very hard. And if it don’t kill ya’, it really will make you stronger.
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 12:54 pmSo far we haven’t been apart, except when I was overnight in the hospital; but my husband and I do IM each other from separate rooms of the house (instead of yelling across the house):
ME: Could you get me a glass of water?
(Can’t move, I’m feeding the baby.)
HIM: sure
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 1:50 pmLOL!! Too funny. You two sound like a hoot.
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 2:21 pmThat really cracked me up.
Especially since, geekily, I just loaded a google clock on my home page to tell me what time it is in Tokyo so I can figure out when my husband might be up to IM me.
yeah, did I mention that we just moved into a new house and they sent him to TOKYO and KOREA for a month or so? *sigh*
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 3:15 pmToo funny!
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 4:10 pmHow sweet and funny at the same time. Keep it up, so Elizabeth can have that baby!
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 7:48 pmBeen there, done that. My husband and I met online in a Christian chat room seven years ago, in the early days of ICQ. We had hours and hours of conversations like that. We have random ones saved and occasionally we uncover them and get quite a laugh out of it. And recently I read about something called ‘couple-surfing’ which is a couple, each with their respective computers, sitting next to each other, surfing the internet, reading each other excerpts of what they find. We totally do that! Yes, we’re geeks. And we love it
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 8:03 pmLOL! That is great!
Posted on September 8th, 2006 at 5:12 amThe LLama Butchers says:
If Jackson Browne weren’t a washed-up drunk he could write a funny song about this
Long distance love, geek style. The Jackson Browne title would have to be “Homeschooling juvie fiction writers and comic book editors in love.”…
Posted on September 8th, 2006 at 5:22 amI love it! My hubby and I IM back and forth like that too! We are total geeks.
Posted on September 8th, 2006 at 6:27 amSo funny! I looked at this just as I hung up from my hubby (who’s across the street in his office). We were simultaneously finding our house on the “wikimapia.org”.
Posted on September 8th, 2006 at 10:45 ammaybe you will someday be washed up drunk. so you write things you know about- being a goody-goody. how attractive
Posted on November 8th, 2007 at 3:47 amSaturday Miscellany | Melissa Wiley says:
[...] and I have taken geekdom to a whole new level lately by communicating via Twitter. John Stossel’s mustache is so [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 at 8:03 pm