Germany next to last day.
Posted on March 12, 2009 by Brian under Travel.
Well tomorrow I get picked up after work and driven to Frankfurt. There I will check into another Hotel but only for the night. I am supposed to go to an Italian restaurant with my boss but I am not sure that I want to go. I just had Italian tonight and I am not sure if I can stomach two nights of Italian.
I was at the Ennest facility again today for a big meeting with my boss and I got to see the training facility this time. I took a ton of pictures of some of our products. I really think that if they were to bring this stuff to the US they could really revolutionize the market and open the door to a new style of interior design in American homes.
Once I get the pictures uploaded I will share them and tell you more. Right know I am just counting the hours befoe I am on my flight and on my way back home. I am looking forward to being back in my wife’s arms.
I will blog more tomorrow if I can, if not I will blog when I get home. At the moment I am really tired as i have had a long day of meetings and I have even more meetings tomorrow since its my last day. Instead of a Blog about my day i will leave you with a blog I wrote last night and decided not to post. My wife says its really good and i should post it so i will take her advice and put it up for you all to read.
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The Blog Never Posted.
How do you know when you have crossed it. That fine line between caring and becoming a stalker. I am sure every married couple has gone through it at some point in there life. The first time a love one goes away on a business trip, the first time a loved one is gone for any long duration or just the first time you are apart period. I am sure that every couple has gone through the whole “should I call him/her”, “I wonder if I should send him/her a text”.
Right know I am one of those people. Its hard being far away from your family and loved ones, you don’t know how they are doing, you don’t know if something has happened that they might need your help and you are not there to provide it. You just don’t know. So you skate on that fine line of caring and stalking, you sit around for what may seem like hours when in reality its only minutes, after a while you get antsy but you try to hold out a little longer because you don’t want to seem over bearing or obsessive, then you reach the point of panic “I haven’t heard form them, are they OK, has something happened”. This is where people usually break down and finally pick up the phone and make the call, if only to give them selves the peice of mind to confirm that there loved one is alright.
But what happens if they don’t pick up. Do you get in your car and start a state wide man hunt, NO! Also, depending on where you are at it would be kind of hard to do, no like you can hop i a car and drive across the ocean to track down a loved one, although, I am sure some people would try. Do you continually message and call them over and over and over again, that’s an option but then you border on the obsessive. Do you send then a long drawn out e-mail detailing your disappointment, disapproval or just outright anger over there lack of communication, this is also an option, but you need to be careful because this could cause more harm than good.
Truth is, I don’t know what to do. I cant be your voice of reason, I am just as much a victim of this situation as anyone else. I am in that situation right now! I am in another country while my wife is back in the states. We had been having a pretty normal stream of conversation between twitter, e-mail and the phone calls I was able to make while at work. I was under the impression that all was good. But today she traveled to another city for some training. I called at like 9:30pm (state side time) and got her on the phone, she was headed to a bar with some friends form the training class. That was the last communication I got from her. I tried to call her phone a little while ago but it when straight to VM, which means that the phone is either dead or turned off. So now comes the hard part, do you get angry and start spamming the e-mail until you get a response. That’s kind of pointless if you r in another country, and even if you are not in another country its pointless, unless you just want them to wake up to a bombardment of nonsense from you. Calling repeatedly is out of the question, the phone is off. So what do you do?
Again, the answer is I don’t know. I feel like doing all the above but it wont accomplish anything. If he/she wanted to message you then they would have. I guess the best response is to just wait it out, bite your nails and hope and pray for the best. That’s all you can do really. Any more than that and you will just give your self an ulcer, make yourself look like a fool or worse yet, drive a wedge in your relationship and cause things to fall apart.
I truly believe that all things happen for a reason, I try to be patient but I am only human.
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Jo on March 13, 2009
That’s very good. Rico and myself have done the call and call, altho’ we know it can be pointless if you call with only minutes interval. This was before cell phones, IM, or twitter, before working from home became a possibility and spanning our lives from the Philippines. In the Philippines his company used to send him to Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, US (1 mo., 2 mo., 3 mos). Back there, I also travel (overnight, to one week ) to Cebu, Marinduque,Bicol relating to my job as exports merchandiser. You can imagine how many times the anxiety would hit us. Rico used to say “I am so mad because I am so worried ” And when my friends in the Phils. would mock me about Rico’s travels, I used to say, “You don’t know my husband, like I know him”.
I wish you both all the best and I am so proud.