Due to a global pandemic and fucking cancer, we hadn’t traveled in almost three years. Travel is what we love to do and we’d built our life around it so the minute I was reconstructed and able to eat again Shorty said, “I’m planning a trip to Hawaii for two and I’d like you to join me.” I’d been logging 70 hour weeks at work to get a new system online and I kept telling her it was almost over and just give me a minute to wrap this project up and we’ll go but I gotta focus on this and then we really we can take a trip wherever you want to go. After two months of repeating this conversation she stopped asking and starting telling. “Enjoy your stupid job I told you to quit three months ago. I’m drinking MaiTai’s, eating gummies and mainlining vitamin D. Hope you can make it.”

Because I know you’re smart, you’ve figured out by now that I joined her. Starting this entry to shame myself into coming back to finish it. There will be funny anecdotes you didn’t ask for and pictures you’ll be required to look at to pass the quiz Beth will be administering to all our loved ones as a way to validate that you really do love us. I know you can’t wait. See you back soon!