Here we go.

We woke up on Sunday morning still buzzing from an excellent night of celebrating/lamenting and we packed the Explorer to its gills. Then, after a fantastic breakfast of chicken pot pies and pastries with Matt, Amber, Billy, and Sycz; a final visit to Church of the Angels; a beer with Shady Lane's new O'Brien tenants; a few tears and lots of hugs, we drove away.

We've spent Sunday and Monday with the Families B & L (respectively), playing cards, drinking wine, eating our last home-cooked meals for a while, talking, laughing, and saying our good-byes.

And now, this is it. We drive away from our sacred Southern California soil heading east, dust-bowl migrants in reverse, our entire life tightly packed into the modern-day equivalent of a Model A Ford (impractical, dirty, and prone to breaking down).

We love you West Coast. See you soon. East Coast, here we come.

Labels: Life, Wagons East 2007

We can't wait to leave.

We refuse to leave.

We are excited.

We are not looking forward to this at all.

We are overjoyed.

We are tremendously sad.

We are leaving in 4 days.

We will come to your house and hide, bury ourselves in the cool California soil and never ever leave.

It is interesting that some important transitions, things we know to be necessary and good, can be so very difficult and uncomfortable.

Labels: Life

2 weeks from Sunday we will be driving away from our sweet friend, Southern California.

Bitter. Sweet.

Loose Ends.

It doesn't seem like we will be able to get everything done in time, but we will. Labeling CDs that have spent years with no informative markings. Going through stacks of papers that we thought were just decoration. Selling a plethora of items we never thought we could live without. Recording Grandpa playing jazz drums. Visiting the central coast with the best of them. Watching good friends start a new life together. And then packing up our remaining lives in a 5 by 3 foot space and driving off into the unknown.

Labels: Life

Now that I have tons of free time most of it is spent packing up the house and getting ready for our big move.

Some of my time, however, is spent pondering the big questions in life. Such as this morning, when I wandered into the bathroom and stared at myself for a few minutes thinking, "Would putting in your contacts be a less tedious task if you only had one eye?"

The answer of course is, yes. It would be half as much work. Therefore, it would be half as tedious.

However, what if we had a hundred eyes. Eye exams in general would be excruciatingly long and involved. The process of putting in our contacts could take hours, days depending on the size and number of our eyes.

But, what if we had as many hands as eyes...

Labels: Life