Today is the day!

It's 4:48am and I am struggling to stay awake but I must. I have a 9:00am flight to Tokyo in a few hours and intentionally wanted to stay awake and by doing so I can hopefully sleep away a good chunk of my upcoming 14 hr flight trip. I haven't blogged in damn near a month so this is a good reason as ever to jot down a few words prior to my departure.

I have been off from work most of last week like everyone else, shoo I even cheated Tuesday and Weds by working from home (hardly working). Man, I love that. My Thanksgiving was quiet but really nice. MM cooked and we invited 2 of my boys and their significant other's over then my cousin came through. It was very relaxing. Good food, drink conversation and an overall good look just laying around watching football and movies on the plasma all day. So much stuff has been happening but it's so far removed by now its not even worth writing about.

Umm, so last night MM calls me and says she wants to asking me something. She's rambling a lil bit and kinda dancing around the question she wants to ask, then finally spits it out. "When we get to Japan how should I introduce you?" she asks. I say "Uh, what you mean?" She says "Ya' know when my friends and people back home ask who you are what should I say?" I know EXACTLY what she means but play dumb, I say "just introduce me how you've always introduced me up to now, what's the problem?" She says "Okay". Me being the sucker that I am can't let it stay that way and say I understand. I know what your concern is and I what your trying to say. It's her hometown, her friends, her family and colleagues. I tell her whatever suits her best is good with me. I tell her her I want her comfort level to be good (I'm NOT trying to alienate this woman or have her annoyed at me over semantics about what my title will or should be. I ask if she would be comfortable with me saying I'm her boyfriend (I can see the grin through the dayum phone) she says of course, of course, LOL. So good its settled, we'll discuss if the title will stick when we get home I say with a chuckle, LOL. Well, I thought it was funny, but not sure if she did. In all seriousness I've been thinking about it for a good month now. Considering the amount of time we spend together and our conversation frequency I do owe this woman sometype of clarification of where we are and just what the hell we're doing. We say that we'll wait until we get home to clear the air (she's afraid I'll be very unhappy there there and it'll be a disaster). You know me...anything to push that conversation off, so I said okay.

I must say I am very happy with my conversational Japanese (dare I say, LOL). She bought me one of those small pocket size cheat sheet books of Japanese phrases/words for tourists. It's actually pretty good and I've gotten a handle on it and at least understand the premise and the guidelines of the Japanese language. I called my mother to remind her I'm leaving the country today and of course she asks why I'm going so far and the motherly be careful. MM and I go up to Westchester to drop off a plate of food on Friday so she couldn't say too much then but did call me later on Friday night so find out whets really going on with me and MM. Mom even asks about NYL and of course I rush her onto the next topic. She still doesn't know to what extent this woman resorted to in order to have me or keep me to herself....NYL is completely looney if you ask me.

Well, its time to start getting dressed. I'm already packed and almost ready to start my 10 day journey to the Far East. A lil nervous about what lays ahead but definitely looking forward to it.