I'm on a plane back to Chicago now. I was in Chicago for 2 weeks.

I haven't written one of these for a while. I've been very busy and to be honest I just haven't really felt like working on the page. Part of the reason I haven't written anything is because I needed time to figure out for myself what was going on in my life before I wrote about it.

Last time I was in Chicago I met up with my Ex-Girlfriend Leah. I went out with her about 5 years ago. We haven't talked for about 4 years. We ran into each other by chance in Chicago about a year ago. The night we met up we decided to go sledding. However, because we didn't have any sleds we ended up rolling snow covered hills. It was very cold but we had a great time. That was the day I took the picture of her that is on the Friends page.

About 11 months after that I was in Chicago again. I saw her one or two times during that trip. I began to realize again how wonderful she was. I told her that I like her (so 5th grade sounding) because I didn't want to keep that inside of me. She responded by saying something like, "awwwwww."

About a month later I was in Chicago again. I saw her a lot that trip. Mostly at nights. I would do whatever during the day and then hang out with her at her place talking till till 3 or 4 in the morning. It was great.

The last day I was in Chicago that trip I was pretty torn up about what to do. I knew how much I felt for her but I didn't know what to do about it. Last time I told her how I felt she was pretty unresponsive and also what would happen even if she did like me? I mean did I really want to start a long distance relationship?

I called a few friends of mine for advice and they all said that I should say it to her. I also knew that if I didn't tell her how I was feeling that I would regret it for a long time, so I did.

She told me that she feels the exact same way I did, and basically has since I broke up with her 5 years ago. It was unbelievable.

We did not talk about what to do about it however. I was in the situation I was scared of being in. Her feeling the same way I feel about her and not knowing what to do about it. I mean why start a long distance relationship?

I left for Chicago the next day.

A couple days later she gave me a call. She had some time off school and found some cheap plane tickets. She was coming up to visit me.

She was up for about 6 days, and we had a wonderful time.

I told all my friends about this obviously. I wanted all of them to meet her and let me know what they think of her. Not that I would base how I feel about her from their opinions, but I know my friends are good judges of character and I wanted to know what they thought...maybe if they would see something I was turning a blind eye to. I trust my friends to be honest about that.

They all loved her. All my friends support me in saying that I am doing the right thing by decided to be in a long distance relationship.

I am ecstatic.

The two weeks that I spent in Chicago were wonderful. I saw her everyday. I met more of her friends, spent time with her parents, and she spent time with mine. Everything was great. I couldn't be happier.

I asked her why she merely said "awwww" that first time I told her how I felt about her and she said she just didn't know how to take it. She wasn't sure if I was really serious. She just didn't know how to respond to it. She was sort of afraid.

So other news.

The people sitting behind me on the plane are idiots. It's a guy and a girl. She wants to be an actress she wants to "work on movies with a message" she is saying the things I hear countless wanna be actresses saying. "I want to work on movies with less sex. I want to find a project I can really believe in." She's the sort of person who ends each sentence with a giggle whether or not she said something funny. She really likes the movie The Saint. I don't know much about him because I can't really hear much of what he is saying.

I'm finishing this up a few days later now. I had to stop writing because we were landing.

I didn't really get a lot done in Chicago. I spent most of my time with Leah, which was great.

I did get to see Cleetus perform finally. I've known him for almost a year and this is the first time I've been in town that he has been performing. I was glad it finally worked out. I liked his show a lot.

I'm going to end this one now. I'm not good at continuing logs that were previously started. I have a bunch of half written logs that were never posted. I just wanted to finish this one up so that something get posted.

Happy new year.

Oh yeah, and I'm going to Mexico this weekend. I'll try to write an update on Sunday when I get back. Hopefully something fun will happen.