Less than 48 Hours

Wow, I can’t believe that we leave in 2 days! We’re pretty much done packing.. just a few odds and ends things left. Hopefully Ernesto will be gone by Friday afternoon so that we don’t have to load the truck in the rain. I wouldn’t mind the rain except that our stuff would get all wet and then sit closed up for a week. Well, thats about all the news.. let us know if you want to help us Friday

WOo HOo!

I have lots of announcements!!

1. Derrick is home!! We survived 3 weeks apart!

2. Derrick’s car is SOLD! A highschool guy bought it as his first car- he was so excited that he locked his key in the car within 6 hours of owning it I guess they got into it because the spare was with Derrick in CA.
3. Derrick found us an apartment! Email me if you want our new address. I will hopefully be sending out little post cards.. but it may not happen in the midst of all the other things we have to do… like pack.

4. We will be heading out Labor Day weekend.. either Friday or Saturday. So if anyone is free let me know and we will LET you come over and carry things down two flights of stairs! Aren’t we nice?

5. My sister and I are having a yard sale on the 26th. I have a computer, dining table, lots of clothes, violin, and other odds and ends to sell. If anyones interested let me know and I’ll give you the address or you can buy it before the yard sale.
I think thats about it. Our apartment is an absolute wreck. Even worse than usual if thats possible. Yay! The End.

Monday you come too soon!

This weekend just completely flew by. It was fun though! On Sunday I went to the beach in Wilmington in the morning and then drove home and went to the pool with the girls. Amanda didn’t show but I half expected that- she is not known for her reliability We ‘grilled’ burgers on the george foreman after the pool- yummy!

New Old Bike!

I am the proud new owner of a Free Spirit Brittany bicycle! It was only(?) $55! I’m not really sure if I got ripped off or not but it was the cheapest non-mountain bike that I could find. Plus it should be an great commuter bike- fenders to keep (most of) the mud/gunk off me, a rack to carry stuff on, a more comfy seat, smooth tires and its blue!

As you can probably tell I’m slightly excited. I am almost one week down, 2 weeks to go of Derrick being gone! I’m going to Wilmington in until Sunday afternoon when the gals are coming over for a pool party!

I heard a cool thing on Klove the other day, Sunday actually. It was the guy from Rivers of the World and he was telling a story about how there were these kids working on houses and a government official asked them weren’t they tired!? The little boy replied “My God gives me endless strength!” WoW! That was especially poignant (is that how you spell it?) since I was freaking out about how I was EVER going to survive 3 weeks without Derrick. So I claimed it- God will give me endless strength! And so far he has provided as promised I still would rather Derrick be here or me be there but we are surviving joyfully. Praise God.

Monday Monday..

If dogs can grin Toro was definitly grinning yesterday after our walk/run in Umstead. He had his little tongue out grinning up at me like "Aunt Kelly, that was FUN!"

aanyway, today is monday. it is 10am and I have already messed up my clothes. This morning I was carrying my what I thought to be empty smoothie cup into work and dribbled it on my lunch bag. No big deal, I'll just rinse it off. I noticed later that I somehow managed to get it down the front of my WHITE capris as well.. Oh well, the color matches my shirt almost perfectly!

One Month til Blastoff!

Its exciting and scary to think that in about a month we will be leaving NC for the west coast! I have been thinking about the things that I will miss (besides people) and here is what I've come up with:
* When the air is so humid and hot that it can't help but explode into a afternoon thunderstorm. The smell as the mist rises up from the hot asphalt as the temperature is temporarily cooled by the pouring rain.
* The beach!! According to annonymous sources west coast beaches are cold and rocky :(

Thats all I have so far..
I guess to go along with that I should make a list of things I am looking forward to in CA:
* Low humidity
* Public Transportation
* Being with driving distance of San Francisco, Wine Country, Lake Tahoe and probably other places that I don't even know about yet :)

Transportation Issues

What is it about rain that makes people forget how to drive? Its like the raindrops swell up the impatient part of the brain causing it to overtake the part that knows how to drive. This morning I saw a car in the straight lanethat decided he wanted to turn left.. so he did. Luckily the people around him still had part of their driving brain intact so they didn’t hit him (or her), but I was dumbfounded. I admit, my impatient portion does tend to swell in slow rainy day traffic but I have never let it get so out of control that it disabled my ability to drive. I am really looking forward to the time when I will no longer have to drive myself to work/school. Hurray for public transportation and bike friendly cities!