spent the day on the will heal farm with great friends and family

and it was EXACTLY what we needed. it just feels good to be out in the country. to stare at the stars and smell the yarrow. it was fantastic. incredible food including pork, salad, black bean and corn salsa, chips, garlic bread, sparkling juice drinks and incredible berry crumble. with rice dream and ice cream. yummers! the kids rode their bikes to the lake and swam, the adults sat and chatted. it was so good to sit with people with whom i have tons in common, i didnt have to explain things too. it jsut felt good, ya know?

tomorrow i start packing. tuesday we leave town for texas. the little border town my dad lives in will be the great vacation of the season. airlines! here i come, treat me nice kay?

moving. and moving.

well, almost all my books are packed. and going into storage at the new house. NOT because there isn't room but because we can take out one box at a time and put them anyway after we get the bookshelves put up. without boxes of books laying around.

i have all my winter clothing packed as well. and most of my in season clothing. i have just enough out to function for the next month. all my c.d.'s are packed which was a huge ordeal given i did a radio station for while and have a monster collection. the only ones i left out were then ten in the car.

today i finish off the one shelf of books i haven't packed yet.

in packing for the great move of 2010 i have realized how much stuff i own. and really i have gotten given away literally two hoses worth of stuff in the last two years. somehow though its getting closer. getting better. getting less.