Today I got a camcorder. I think I might make an iMovie of this whole moving experience. So many changes – selling the house, getting rid of most of our stuff, going somewhere completely different.
Not bitching, just musing. Ellen believes that I’ll have to go through some sort of mourning period for the life I’m leaving behind. I’m sure she’s right. I know that this is a great move for me. Not a doubt in my mind. This is the “maybe if I work really hard, someday I’ll get to work there” job. In the part of the country I’ve wanted to live in ever since my first visit to the Bay Area.
So, I think it might be good for me to document at least the tail end of this experience, to help me work through it.
Got our airline tickets. We’re carrying the cats on, which should be a joy yet unknown to us.
I’m going to miss Jake. A lot.
Spent yesterday evening with the Pruessner family branch. Becky and David have three amazing kids – Jennifer, Daniel, and Heather. Daniel’s working the summer as a web developer, and “enjoying” the overworked status of an “Exempt” employee. I’m not sure that’s legal, if they fought it, but he’s going to try going fast and loose with the comp time to make up for some of the overtime he won’t get. Jennifer is in her last year of college, going to Costa Rica for a semester, then finishing at Trinity. She did very well on her MCAT, so I am certain that she’ll get into the medical school of her choice. And Heather’s fifteen. Ahh, fifteen. I hated fifteen, but she seems to be handling it much better.
That’s enough about my cousins. Well, for now.
Off to bathe and sleep.