{"id":328,"date":"2007-09-26T09:48:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/2007\/09\/26\/man-im-gonna-miss-you\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T09:48:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T14:48:35","slug":"man-im-gonna-miss-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Man, I’m gonna miss you."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love this picture.\u00a0 Kris and I have long been trying to capture ourselves and not have one of us be blinking, contorting our faces, or look like we are about to barf.\u00a0 And here we are, with the guy who introduced us, looking…decent.\u00a0 A teeny bit blurry, but decent.\u00a0 And I’m ok with that, because I think it’s perfect.\u00a0 It was taken on our third attempt that night (the first two were predictably unpostable) and a mere week before we absolutely needed that photo to be taken.\u00a0 It speaks to the end of an era.<\/p>\n

I met Kris 5 years ago.\u00a0 Almost to the day.\u00a0 We met September 27, 2002, the same night that Dan and I met.\u00a0 It’s a very convenient way to remember an\u00a0anniversary, and one I’m not likely to forget.\u00a0 3 or 4 Bloody Caesars (with no Tobasco) later and Kris and I\u00a0were fast friends.\u00a0 We were introduced by an old co-worker of mine, EAP, who\u00a0then worked with Kris.\u00a0 So although we never worked at the same place at the same time, it is, ultimately, what links us.\u00a0 And somehow keeps us coming back.<\/p>\n

And now, after almost exactly 5 years, I have to say goodbye.\u00a0 My friend is moving away.\u00a0 She and her other half are packing up everything they haven’t sold and moving to Bermuda.\u00a0 I have made sure not to show my incredible distaste at the idea of living in Ottawa without having her nearby, but only because I couldn’t be happier for her.\u00a0 It takes guts to move that far away from home, and Kris has already done this at least once when she moved across the country from her beloved Victoria.\u00a0 And look how beautifully that move turned out.<\/p>\n

I’m so proud of her to be doing what she wants to do,\u00a0for being brave enough to\u00a0go on such an amazing adventure and for choosing a place to move that I already can’t wait\u00a0to visit.\u00a0 I’m also very envious.\u00a0 As I am zipping up my parka in -40 degree weather this January, she could easy unzipping her beach cover-up and stopping for a quick dip in the ocean on her way to work.\u00a0 J-E-A-L-O-U-S.<\/p>\n

This is definitely the end of an era.\u00a0 My Kontributor Kris is leaving and tonight we say goodbye over a bowl of pho and an episode of ANTM.\u00a0 Quite frankly, there is no better way to send her off.\u00a0 It’s been an unbelievable 5 years.\u00a0 She has been much more than a girl I met at Friday drinks after work.\u00a0 She has become\u00a0a person\u00a0I confide in, someone\u00a0I have so much in common with it’s stupid and who can make me laugh so hard I almost pee my pants.\u00a0 I haven’t allowed myself to think about what life is going to be like when she leaves\u00a0but that’s mostly because\u00a0I’m refusing to let the distance come between us.\u00a0\u00a0And that doesn’t mean I’m not going to miss her like hell.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Kris.\u00a0 Adventure your little heart out.\u00a0 I’ll be there for a visit sometime in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I love this picture.\u00a0 Kris and I have long been trying to capture ourselves and not have one of us be blinking, contorting our faces, or look like we are about to barf.\u00a0 And here we are, with the guy who introduced us, looking…decent.\u00a0 A teeny bit blurry, but decent.\u00a0 And I’m ok with that, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}