Hi!

I'm sorry for my absence. I don't have an excuse - I mean, I've been busy with school and whatever, but I certainly also wasted enough time that I could have posted.

Things feel really crazy right now. Crazy good in that I'm almost done with this session of school. I can't believe I did this, but I just totally fudged my assignments based on a 500 page novel. I read the first six pages, read other students' posts, read wikipedia - and then I wrote a post on it, responded to two others, and took a quiz on it - and I only skipped three questions! I'm both ashamed and proud of myself. Ashamed I didn't read the material, but proud I was able to save myself eight hours of reading in such a busy week of packing.

Joe works today and tomorrow and then he's off for TEN DAYS! I'm so excited that he'll be around for the whole packing, moving, and unpacking experience. It'll be more fun to do the craziness together. Yes, we're moving next week/this weekend. We're not sure yet what the big day will be; Joe's been working so much it's been hard to talk about it.

I'm at Forza now, doing my homework like I always used to do. I came in all excited to see the girls, but then I found out that the store is closing on Friday. That's in two days, people. The girls had just found out today. I was so sad. They'll be fine; one has a job lined up and the other is going to be a stay at home mom because, she's married now - wow, things happen fast when I don't show up for a few months! She wasn't even engaged when I saw her last...crazy. And she thinks she might already be pregnant; they're trying. My mind is just blown.

I've had too many carbs (I typed crabs the first time! Haha, I wish) and too much coffee and tea so I'm really jittery and have a lot of tired energy right now. I think I'm done with schoolwork for today; I'm just trying to think of how I'm going to spend the next five hours till Joe gets home. I need to go home and grab the shopping list and then go to Costco; maybe I"ll make myself a healthy dinner and go to the gym later. I definitely do not want to be home alone tonight. Maybe I can time my gym trip so Joe gets home around the same time I do!

It is so nice having flexibility in packing. A little here, a little there; a load here, a load there.

I'm ready to leave Forza now but I'm so sad, knowing I probably won't see these girls again. Three of our regulars that I knew came in today; it was good to say a last goodbye to them. One guy in particular had moved to D.C. a year ago, right about when I stopped working at Forza, and now he only comes back once a month - and my visits are sporadic at best because I don't want to spend crazy money on lattes - so it's cool that we ran into each other. I gave him a hug. He's a grumpy old Russian man and always complains about his drink and I think I'm the only one who's really fond of him.

I want life to stop spinning around me just for a minute. Or maybe I'm the one who's spinning? I don't know. I feel like everything I say is really cryptic because of all the deep literature I've been reading lately. Haha, I'm such a nerd.

That's all for now. Love you!