we signed the lease on our perfect apartment today! it's got a basement for my photo work and ryans tools and a backyard for a meditation circle and an herb/vegetable garden. we move in sometime late may, then we're having a party! in a month my credit cards will be paid off and we'll have a new apartment. silver lining time guys! thank gods! ryan's mom and stepdad came over yesterday to help us pack, and i was able to get my barstools fixed. to celebrate we went to bingo at bob and barbara's. always good to see mr bob dix. tomorrow we're supposed to be going to a goodbye party. i'm really going to miss zenobia and mary (and of course the rest, but especially those two because they've become really close friends to me :( ) Of course, now I've got couches to sleep on in Seattle (because I didn't get enough of Mary's couch in Philly). Saturday I think we get to spend at Ryan's mom's, and Sunday we help Rich relocate his stuff. ;) Things in other mundane areas are also looking up, which is great. I start my new diet/workout plan the 1st (for a few reasons), so wish me luck! Bye bye broken butt weight!

Anywho, I've got a pot of yerba mate wating for me at home...loooove!

many blessings to all of you!

and per Rich's homework.... I love me! (ok so there's no mirror here, but it's a start)

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whew!
whirlwind pauses for a moment of silence and peace...and so...blogging!

Let's start with the weekend...
Friday night we had plans that included homemade jambalaya and a hot tub. Unfortunately Mother had a plan including lots of rain, which means jambalaya was reheated at 2am. Saturday brought us a nice walk through Valley Forge Park, a couple tickets, and paint swatches for the apartment. An exciting night lead into a morning full of cleaning and such. Leave it to Ryan's mom to go away on Mother's Day, but we left her a lingering pot of azaleas and a specially chosen card. We ended up catching Pho and gelato with Zakattack, then back to his place for an inordinate amount of time shootin' the shit.

Monday there's bad news, irregular ops, and lots of stress with little sleep, but there's also keys and a truck with which to start relocating our lives. Tuesday and today brought more of the same, but with much appreciated help from Zak and Darti, we are 80-90% moved into a now clean apartment! Take that U-haul! I don't need your shockless trucks this time!

Today I officially applied for an inflight position! I was one of the few people who got into Ground-Ops with no desire to ever be a flight attendant, but as life grows and changes so do goals and needs. We discussed it at length and decided it was the best "next step" for us at this time. The only issue will come when I'm based, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Think optimistic thoughts for me, people!

Ok, back to packing! I'm not sure when we'll have internet in the new place, but I assure you it will be ASAP. We have a few other things to take care of first, then we'll be back! Until then, work and libraries it is (and the occasional night at the diner with wi-fi). Pictures eventually!

blessings!

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so the apartment is finally full of everything but the magic box since we still have internet at sumac but not yet at the new place. after spending days and nights transporting, we finally finished up saturday night! friday i was at work late with a migraine and irregular ops, which made me less than ecstatic. saturday was FULL of moving, then everyone disappeared without toasting the new place, so we got some smirnoffs and cider for ourselves and organized a bit. sunday things got interesting...

we were suppose to have a shoot out near limrick...the property is privately owned, but i was told we had permission to be there...we didn't...instead we got to stand in the rain while officer "i've got nothing better to do than make you stand in the cold rain making sure you don't go away" decided what to do with the 25 or so people who had shown up...of course the two of us were the only ones cited for tresspassing, which is absolutely ridiculous for a lot of reasons...so now we've got to deal with this crap. by the time we were done there we were done..we headed home and organized some more, took a walmart trip for some kitchen supplies, and hit acme for some actuall groceries.

the place is chaotic right now, but it's really nice. we're slowly but surely finding a place for everything. there's food in the kitchen so we can actually start cooking instead of scrounging, and aside from the occasional monetary worry, there's an optimistc buzz in the air. we are ready to be productive. we are ready to move forward. even mowgli's been more calm and obedient. a few growing pains, but all in all things are good, and it feels great to be able to say that.

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