I can't believe that it has been four weeks with having Elliot with me. As I write this blog post, I am in Phoenix, Arizona's airport with two hours to kill, so I thought it would be a good time to shoot out a little post. Elliot is living with his mom near Wichita, Kansas. Instead of doing a four day car trip to take him home and back, we discovered that I could take Elliot home to Kansas, and get me back to Salt Lake for a third of the price by flying. We got great deals with the tickets, and it's crazy to think that in four hours from now, I will be home in Salt Lake City, and how I have spent time in three other cities that I've never been to. I wish we could have gone sight seeing in St. Louis, but we had to get to our next plane in a hurry.
Right now as I write this post, I am charging my phone, Amazon Kindle and sipping on my favorite non-coffee drink from Starbucks, the White Chocolate Raspberry Steamer. It's really hot milk with one shot of white chocolate syrup and one shot of raspberry syrup. If you have never had one, try it out. It has replaced hot chocolate for me. They taste like a hot version of the Haagen Dazs White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl ice cream. It's sweet, but not too sweet, and the flavor is great.
It's really hard with Elliot living so far away. It's hard to be a dad and hard to not be there for him in a physical sense. I know he would rather live here, but things with the divorce decree between Angie and me have to change. At the time of the divorce, my insomnia was really bad and at that point in my life, I didn't realize that I have Asperger's Syndrome. Now that we know all of that, and being properly medicated for sleep and mood changes, I am able to do a lot more than before I knew and fixed that stuff.
I think that the hard part is not knowing when I am going to get another chance for him to come stay with me. I hope it's only a couple of months for Thanksgiving or Christmas. In the meantime, there are things that I can get into order to see if Elliot can come live with us for a while. I do talk to him on the phone a couple of times a week, but he's shy and doesn't talk much, so it's hard to share and be apart of his life while he isn't with us.
I tried going out to the movies with Elliot while he was here. The theaters around my house are open and showing classic movies. Elliot had never seen the first Wonder Woman film, and they were playing it, so we went. It was so strange. There weren't any displays or new posters or cardboard stands. We were the only people in the building besides the workers. The theater sells plastic popcorn buckets that are pretty big. They cost $30, but you get to use it for a year, and it only costs three bucks to refill it, and with me being a popcorn junkie, it's pretty fantastic. They also have big mugs for drinks as well, but they don't expire like the buckets.
So, we ordered some popcorn, and since the whole Covid-19 thing going on, instead of taking our bucket, they filled up a really big paper bag, which we had to take and pour it into our bucket. The same thing with the drinks. They gave us two large paper cups, which we had to go to the freestyle machines, fill up the cups with our drinks, and then pour them into our mugs. It was so strange. We were in a huge auditorium, and it was just the two of us. It was cool, but sometimes I like having a crowd interacting with the film, but it was nice to sit in the "deluxe" seats by ourselves.
I have recently found out that I may actually get to see Bill and Ted Face the Music and Mulan in theaters before their video on demand releases, which is cool, but still, I would rather have a lot of people in the screenings, especially for Bill and Ted and Mulan. Hollywood is kind of in trouble. It's so frustrating trying to find new topics to write about for the newspapers I write for. I can only do so many "Top Ten" lists before they get lame. I really hope and pray people will wear their masks, stay in if possible, and be safe. I look forward to the day where I can do my movie reviews and act in some plays. I believe things will get better, but for now, we all need to be safe and follow what the authorities are telling us to do to be healthy and safe.
That's about it for this post. It's about time I unplug all of my charging electronics and get ready to board my plane so that I can get home and feel sad that Elliot isn't there with me. I hope everyone is happy and safe. Look forward to my Moab post. I have some great pictures that I'm excited to share. So, take care and I will see you in Salt Lake City.
Uncky Nate!
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