Hello 2013!
We welcome 2013 as it brings us one step closer to having our sailors come home for good. My celebration to bring in the new year was just me and my friend at her house drinking together. Then we stole her roomate's pots and a couple metal spoons and banged them outside with her neighbors. We came back inside to find we had made a million little dents on the bottoms of the pots. Woops! Let's just put those back...maybe he won't notice. While my new year was relatively calm Anthony's was even more dull, standing watch right through the new year without a whoop or holler to be heard. I felt so bad for the poor boy. No drinks with his buddies, not even a noise maker or a tv to watch the ball drop in Times Square. Hey, at least he is still in the same time zone so I could text him when it happened. My poor Anthony all alone at the dawn of the new year, I was so sad.
I suppose he made up for missing new year's by taking a short road trip with his buddy to his hometown in Tennessee. Anthony has never been there so he was definitely up for the trip. It takes about five hours to get there but they stopped along the way to get lunch. At Hooters of all places. Anyway, they stayed at the parent's house of Anthony's friend. They sound like very kind, very hospitable southern folk. I'm glad Anthony was treated so well and gave them respect in return. Anthony has always had good manners around new people, especially parents and people he wants to be accepted by. I'm also glad that Anthony has made good friends like this one, friends that can take him to new places and expand his view on life. I think this was a very good experience and I hope he gets to do it again soon.
Now for the drama. If you would like to stop reading now I would not be offended. While Anthony was on this trip he did not keep in very much contact with me, if at all for the first day or so. My boy was going on a road trip and he did not tell me anything about how they were doing, what they were doing, and when I asked he was very shady about it. I called him the first night of his trip to no answer, no callback, just a text saying goodnight after I sent one. The next day was also silent until I broke it and asked him what he was doing the previous night. He did tell me that he was sightseeing and that he would like to take me there one day. Harmless, right? Seemed rather odd to be doing that type of thing at night in the dark but I shrugged it off. That night when he called he informed me that he stayed at his friend's friend's house that previous night. That also seems odd. Why not stay at your buddies' parent's house like you said you were? When I asked him what he did earlier (the same day he called) he just said, "stuff." Um, ok, that explains alot. This whole thing grew fishier by the minute.
The next day I was rather concerned and had to confront Anthony and get the story on what was happening. So far I had only known was he was doing from the Facebook posts of his friend's mother (who I am already friends with). I texted him simply saying I would like to hear more about what he did on his trip. No attitude, just honest curiosity. I also said that this trip seemed a little sketchy to me. All I got was "nope". Um, ok? Just nope? Later that night when he called I got a little loud in expressing my concern over his simple "stuff" and "nope" replies to my inquiries. He then went back into his journal, that I got him for Christmas, and proceeded to read back to me everything he did, hour by hour for the past three days. This was more than I wanted from him, now mocking me for asking harmless questions. I have noticed lately that Anthony has been getting a little snippier when I have trouble understanding him.
The conversation ended with us on good terms, we laughed and talked about other things, and moved on from this subject. We talked about it briefly, cleared the air and laid it to bed. I said that all I wanted to know was what he was doing, not in a controlling way, just out of curiosity. When I get short answers like I did that is when the flags are raised. Hopefully, next time I'm a little curious about what he's up to he won't take it the wrong way.
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