Moving

I don't have long...but I am mostly moved to Eugene now. I think I might even be out of the old house today, amazing! I'm about 70% settled at the new place. I can't believe how smoothly this move went. I chalk it up to lots of help and actually being organized! I can't wait to post pictures of my new place. I'm not sure when I will have internet there, may be a few days.

Anyone recognize this beetle? I found it in my backyard...and now that I look at the picture think it must be some kind of click beetle. Unfortunately I did not flip it over to see if it clicked. It was bigger than any click beetle I've ever seen, but that shape is so distinctive.


The sunset was soo pretty tonight. Not sure what the spots are...bugs, dust, shit on my lens...they are distracting for sure though. I will miss the open space at this house, it's nice to have a big private backyard.

Spam

As seen in a spam email headline:

"Britney's breasts break out in a fight"

Vermont

Megan and I had a great trip across the North East, everywhere we went was beautiful. We had good weather the first two days, but woke up to a torrential down pour the second morning. We were packed up and gone by 6:30 am! The mosquitoes were biting even with all the rain, luckily that was the only place we had a big problem with them, and the beauty of the site made up for it. We actually only spent a day and a half in Vermont, the weather was horrible and further north (where we hadn't been yet) was expecting flooding. Fortunately we had enough places to go that were indoors; cheese factories, Ben and Jerry's, etc. Vermont was pretty expensive, and even though we wanted to bring home pounds of cheese and bottles of maple syrup, we couldn't afford to. The worst place we went was the Vermont Country Store, it was a really fun place, but very expensive. They had a cheese I liked, and I thought I would buy a small sliver, until I realized it was $35/lb!!! We did make out with some fake teeth and some metal sparklers though.
After Vermont we headed back to New York to the Finger Lakes region which was really pretty. However it was raining there too if I remember correctly. After getting back to Ohio we hit up Kiedrowski's and Jeni's for snoogles and the best ice cream I think I've ever had. I just went to add some pictures to this and I think all of the ones I wanted must have been on Megan's camera, which I haven't transferred yet. Check out my pictures here, her blog here and her pictures here.

Relief and Chaos

The chaos that is moving:


My parents have been so so helpful lately and I'm so appreciative of it. I can't lift anything right now due to my elbow pain, and so they offered to help me move. My parents haven't helped me move in 7 years, that's 6 moves ago. It is hard for me to not be able to do things on my own, but they have been so great. I boxed most of my stuff up, my mom has done the rest, my dad loaded and moved everything, my mom cleaned both of my kitchens (the new house is not clean, mouse droppings, unmopped floors, etc), she scrubbed my floors on her hands and knees today. I could not have done this without them.
I had an appointment to see a orthopedic surgeon for my arm on Sept. 3 and I've seriously been counting down the days. They called today to tell me something came up and I will have to reschedule for either the 18th (in the middle of my trip to see Aaron, if I can't go then it will be 6 months between our visits) or on the 29th, my first day of school. I called around, everyone else was booked until October. I had a break down in the Winco parking lot, which continued until I got home. My parents showed up at my house when I was in the shower, still a wreck, I told my mom what had happened, and enough is enough they said and called a good friend of theirs in Salem who is an orthopedist. I have an appointment in a week. It is so ridiculous how long you have to wait to get in to see a doctor these days, and you shouldn't have to know someone to get good health care. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this will all work out for the best.
I haven't forgotten about my trip, I just haven't had time to even look at my pictures yet.

Vermont to come...

Ok, I really really want to post about my super fun trip with Megan to Vermont...but I have to move tomorrow and my parents will be here at 9 am to help. I need to be organized and mostly packed by then. YIKES. It will have to wait a few days.

Made it

I made it to Ohio. Red eyes are hell hell hell. Some good things about it though:

I watched the sun set faint pink over Oregon in between layers of fluffy clouds

I flew into Vegas in the dark, it was impressive

I had the big dipper right outside my window for the entire flight to Ohio, and I saw 3 shooting stars

I saw the sun come up, sending out neon pink streamers across the clouds


Now we are off to the Ohio State Fair for funnel cake and people watching!!