They're Here

The students have arrived - farewell to normal life for a while. Talk to everyone in August once life goes back to normal and I stop wishing they would stay longer.

Weekends

I have been thinking about bookends and contemplating how the weekends really are huge stabilizers for me, even if they are sometimes full of chaos. Work is about to get crazy, it has been for the past few weeks but it will ratchet up to a new level tomorrow-luckily I love all the students who will shortly arrive. Last weekend I had a nice long four-day weekend which was self preserving with the move and gave me a chance to relax. It ended Monday night with FHE at the capitol and dinner downtown afterward.

(Insert crazy week here) This weekend begins with dinner in Fair Oaks with C and a movie afterward.

Granted I did respond to some work emails at 2 am when I got home, sad I know, but it was a nice break. Especially since I do not get a single complete day off this weekend. Went into the office this morning for a couple hours and have meetings all day tomorrow. Sigh! Thankfully once I get there it will be great.

Even more pathetic, the highlight of my week was setting up remote access to my desktop at work through my laptop. Seriously so excited. I have been begging for this for years!

Blog Backlog

July 4th
Since the folks are out in Utah visiting the Gs, I spent the 4th with C's family in Woodland. It was lovely - there was tons of food and it was so nice to meet everyone. They all knew about Clearlake (and my car breaking down). I had heard so much about them it was nice to meet everyone.
It was also the first morning waking up in my new place. There was a stake pancake breakfast at 7:00 AM - and I actually went. I even know three people in the stake who I saw at the breakfast - which was nice.
Afterward there was more unpacking and then some lovely time with people from my branch here at J's pool in Woodland. Fun - and no sunburn!
Then it was over to the S's. A wonderful 4th!





July 3rd was the official moving day! It was chaos, alright it was not that bad but lacking sufficient sleep I was kinda a mess. Moving began at 7:45 when B gave me a ride over to the UHaul place to get the moving van. It was huge! We loaded everything up and took it out to Sacramento - thanks to everyone who helped!!!
It was a long day at 10:00 I was still trying to get things unpacked. Haven't finished yet. There is still quite a bit of stuff at my apartment in Davis - it will come over slowly.

What would be a move without multiple configuration's!

This was the sixth or seventh configuration and I have since moved a few items around, but I will wait for more pictures when I have actually moved everything over.

A couple Friday's ago B and I went down to see Okkerville River and Wilco at the Mountain Winery (down by San Jose). It was fantastic!


Then it was time for Wilco, their set was really long and absolutely rocked!

We were seriously twenty feet from Nels Cline. Amazing! The energy was fantastic and there was great interaction between the band and the crowed - with some lovely humorous moments.

Jeff Tweeny

The show was incredible!


And finally, from J and lil'J's visit, here is Grandma and lil'J.

MOVE

So the big news - I am moving to Sacramento, possibly as soon as this weekend. The girls I am living with T and B are great. T is putting new carpeting in my room (brown) and painting the walls a color of my selection (green) before I move in. The house is really close to campus and so clean! C and I went to check out my new ward yesterday. My old roommate JA is currently in the ward. I should clarify it is actually a branch, but one that has more people than my current ward does.

It will be wonderful to be so close to campus and since my classes all get out after 8pm I am sure I will think it is even more wonderful when the semester starts. I will still be driving to Davis for work, but since I would be driving out to Sac almost every night for class it works out well.

So here's to a week of packing!