Plans, Preps, and Goodbyes

Well, the spa yesterday was fantastic. I think that it did it's part to send my stress off. However, the lady that was in charge of my massage I firmly believe was hired by someone to try and kill me. My back today feels as if it has been run over by an eighteen wheeler. I am trying to figure out why people pay 150$ to be severely abused by a woman who is quite obviously a sadist?

The rest of my treatments were fabulous though... especially the herbal wrap. One day, when I am independently wealthy, I will hire someone to wrap me in hot wet herbal sheets every day and rub my feet and hands while listening to Enya.

The packing is coming along nicely. It's amazing how much stuff you really NEED when you are going to be away from home for so long. I have used up way too much of my luggage allowance.. so I hope for Stewart's sake he doesn't have to pack a lot. He has like a duffle bag left. LOL!

Tonite my job for myself was to sticky note the entire house so the housesitter knows where everything is, and how everything works. So that's one more job completed and off the list. Now I just need to start taking bets as to how long my children allow the sticky notes to say in place when they arrive home from my parents on Monday!

We are still searching for a house. So far, no dice.... no one wants to let for just three months. All the holiday lets are long gone... so now, we are just waiting and praying that someone wants to throw us a bone. I have no idea what we are going to do other than stay in a hotel for our entire stay... it's all such a big mess. Once again, I am trying not to let that consume me - because I know that it will all work out.

This weekend I said all of my goodbyes to my friends... some I probably won't see again before I leave. I am going to try to get out to our "bookclub" on Tuesday if I have enough done that I can justify going. I want to - even if it's just to stop in and say HI!!! BYE!!! one last time... so maybe some of my friends I will get to see again. That, and I might manhandle people into going to lunch with me on Monday. ;)

It was sad to give Kerry a hug goodbye this morning... knowing that I probably wouldn't see her again until the end of the summer. And the same with Emily this afternoon.

It's all getting a little too real for me now!