December 17, 2009: Amtraking It and Four Days Left

Four days left until we move to Texas!  This move is closing in on us rapidly.  We are so thankful that Katie and Dudley (her dog) have been at the house helping Dominica while Brian and I have been in Canada. I was not up early today.  I just could not do it.  I managed …

December 16, 2009: SpiceCorps Golden Horseshoe Kicks Off

When the alarm went off at six thirty this morning I totally felt like crap.  Two hours of sleep is not enough at all.  Not even a full sleep cycle, really.  Considering all of the driving that I did yesterday I am just completely wiped.  This is going to be a long and painful day …

December 15, 2009: Driving to Pavilion, 6 Days to Go

Six days until we move to Texas.  This is craziness in the extreme.  To prepare for the trip, the BMW was taken into the shop today to get the oil changed, a general health check (it just hit 50,000 miles) and to get some simple electrical work done as there is a short, or something, …

December 14, 2009: One Week and Closing

One week until we move to Texas.  How can that be?  There is so much that we have to do this week I cannot believe that we will possibly be ready.  Today is just packing and last minute prep kind of stuff.  Today begins the home stretch with a lot of “last” things to do. …

December 13, 2009: Trying to Keep Packing

So much to be done.  We are completely overwhelmed.  This week is completely crazy.  We got started right away on packing.  It was still early morning when I realized that I had completely forgotten about my class at RIT yesterday and needed to do that ASAP.  So I jumped right on that and got to …