Also..

I forgot to mention it earlier, but I also got three birthday cards today, including one from courtesy (ha, now you're going to be jealous if she didn't send you one for your birthday!) and stewlis.

We went to the Chinese place for dinner, for that is where we sit and talk about Life, the Universe and Everything. It feels like we're wasting valuable minutes now, but we realized that we probably need to wait until Monday before we head down there to look for a place to stay, since things are closed on the weekend. Tomorrow, M will work on the cars some, and I might try to get myself a haircut. This has nothing to do with moving, but I've been saying I need a haircut for months now, so it would be nice to get it done while I still have free time. I don't know. We're not in a major hurry to pack, even, because we're planning on doing the moving kind of slowly--we don't need to vacate this place, so we have plenty of time to sort through stuff and decide what to take immediately and what to take later.

Anyway. Lots of stuff going on, but the most important at the moment is probably my sleepy time. I got something in my eye earlier and couldn't get it out right away. Now both eyes are burning so much that it's hard to keep them open. I hate it when that happens because it's not like I'm truly all that sleepy. M would probably make some snide remark about how I'm always sleepy. Boys are like that. Anyway, I guess it's time for me to head to bed and reboot. I'm such a nerd.

Oh, and a very happy birthday to big_bubba! I guess it's kind of over by the time I get around to posting this, but I wrote it earlier in the day, if that counts for anything!

The Moving.

Here's a little visualization exercise that M made fun of me for.

Frankfort is about ninety miles from Morehead by interstate. It's not on the map, but I-64 goes straight from Morehead to there via Lexington. Lexington is about sixty miles from here, and I think the map shows it a little farther south than it actually is. I added Morehead myself, by the way, so keep in mind that it's a bit of an approximation. So, while we might travel to Lexington on a whim quite often, and M drove the distance every day, it's a little too far for me to be driving every day. Not that anyone is trying to get me to commute or anything.. I guess I'm just a little on edge about the whole thing. My parents, who moved us to Georgia for four years and Memphis for another two, are a little freaked out and upset by this move.. especially my mom. I'm justifying it to myself, I guess. If it wasn't for my family, I would be a little more excited about moving. I know it'll be fine, though. It's not like we couldn't drive up here to visit or anything. :)

We've been looking at apartments online. I guess the plan is to find a decent place to rent (preferably a house but we seem to be finding more apartments--although that might not mean anything) and then start looking at where we want to live in a long-term sort of way. I'm feeling extremely stressed over the whole moving thing, and I'm trying very hard to relax about it. M is sick and so far I've been uncharacteristically resisting catching whatever it is that he has, but I know if I allow stress levels to get too high I'll be sick, too, and this is not a good time. So.. I don't know. I really want to be working on stuff, but it's a little too early to do much good. The next issue of Mosaic Minds goes up on the 15th, and I can't even start working on it, really, until the 10th (stuff is still in the editing cycle.) Not very good timing. I'm going to spend some time today doing as much as possible beforehand, though. I don't know how much I can actually accomplish in advance without touching the content, but we'll see how it goes. I can do those f*@#$@#$Sing amazon links, anyway, I guess. Yay. I really hate those.

Anyway, guess I might as well get with it instead of sitting around thinking about what needs to be done. Bleh. I'd really rather sit around and put it off. :)