How I felt yesterday at this time and how I feel at this time today are two totally different things. Yesterday I was still super stressed about the apartment and the cleaning involved and getting the last of everything out. Today I am excited to get going on our grand adventure. So excited to the point where I did a lot of goodbyes today and only cried once.
I started the day with having coffee with Alexis, who is just as excited to be starting her own adventure on Thursday. She is also leaving Spokane and heading to Cali to move back with her family and stretch her career chops in the Valley. But Alexis will be joining us at some point in Europe for a quick tour of Spain and wherever else we decide to go, so we got to talk about that and get all excited for that.
Then I went and did the apartment walk-through and let me tell you, if I had known the walk-through was going to be that easy, I wouldn't have worked so hard cleaning the place. She literally glanced around and said everything was good. And I think the golden moment was when I mentioned I had swapped out the burner trays on the stove. Also I canceled Avista and closed my account and got a "utility letter of credit" for my next utility company. I had no idea that was thing, but apparently it is and "it's important!"
After that it was time for my last Slickrock burrito. Slickrock has become an integral part of my South Hill living and I have no idea what I'm going to do with not only awesome burritos but the company of "Slickrock Jeff" (I know too many Jeffs) while we each work away at our own tasks. I have been going to Slickrock on a weekly basis for many years now and since I started working and schooling from home, bumped it up to twice a week and I'm usually there all afternoon just working away while Jeff works away at burrito tasks, and gossiping about life and the universe. I knew this was going to be a big "Goodbye Spokane" moment and it was. I cried. A lot.
I spent the evening hanging out with Thomas and Morah drinking wine and eating cheese and crackers, chatting about everything under the sun since I don't see Thomas and Morah that often but they are definitely close friends and I couldn't leave town without seeing them one last time.
So now I'm ready. So ready to the point that all the last minute crap in the back of my car from cleaning the apartment in the back seat of the car still could all be chucked in the trash and I wouldn't care because it would mean there was room for the suitcases. So ready that I want to fast forward time.
Sidenote: in true "that's how the world works" fashion, Jeff has a major deadline for work this week and I'm starting a new project the day before we get on the plane...so nice non-stressful times on that front :]
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