Almost all moved in...

So it's hotter than hades here, the last couple of days it's been in the high 90s. Which is good...and bad.

My favorite part so far has been the fact that I have lizards and tree frogs that live on my house! I have 3 squirrel-tree frogs that I have named Slappy, Skippy, and Scrat. Yay!

I'm still trying to find my way around, but I love pretty much every place I've been to so far. I've found some awesome resturaunts, and some good shopping. I also bought a sweet grass basket. I love it! It looks similar to this, but the handles loop around. It's awesome. Although, they are rather expensive, and I had to barter with the lady. She wanted $150 for it. But I explained I didn't have a lot of money, and blah blah blah and I got her down to $50, which is what I was wanting to pay anyways. It now sits in my kitchen and holds fruit. It is a good fruit holder. :-P

Apparently the groceries here are uber expensive. So....who wants to eat Ramen noodles for a year? I do! Sweet...

Right now I am watching the Scrubs episode where everyone sings. I love this episode.

Ok, I don't have anything to add at the moment...I'll figure it out later.

Peace!

I feel like I'm dragging my feet.

I know I only have one week left, but it seems soooo faarrrrr awaaaayyy....that I have simply slowed packing down to almost a standstill. Instead, I worked on photo albums. I had been meaning to make them for some time. I wanted to gather all the photos I had taken of my extended family at our shared cottage over the years, and then put them in an album for everyone to enjoy when they visited. Some of my cousins live as far away as Florida, so I only really see them during the summer at the cottage...or when someone gets married. Which has become less frequent as there are only 3 of us single rele's left. Brian, my sister, and myself. Eep.

So I made the photo albums and changed the oil in my car, and packed a few things, and ate lunch and then it was time for work. Maybe tomorrow I will be more productive....although I doubt it.

I also need to be exercising more....my back problems escalated today making it difficult to sit on my butt at my desk job. Joy.

I don't want to spend 4th of July by myself. :(

The Decision...

The decision had actually been made a long time ago when I was still a little girl. I was going to live in Charleston, South Carolina when I grew up. Just like my mom did, and just like her mom did. But, seeing as I was a Michigan girl, the likelyhood of ending up in Charleston seemed pretty slim.

Until I got the phone call....

I had applied for a communications job at the medical university of south carolina and had flown down for an interview and had been waiitng impatiently for the last week for a decision. I was informed at 5pm on a Tuesday that the job was mine and that I had 2 weeks to get down there for blood work and a physical. Yay! ...and yikes! I hadn't even thought about how to get there, what all to bring, how to tell my friends, where I was going to live, and how I was going to get by on my own....and now I had 14 days to figure it all out. Scary grown-up stuff. Yuck. Never much cared for grown-up things.

So in the middle of packing up everything Ive ever worn, done, owned, or BEEN...I realized that what I was doing was probably the most important, life changing thing I've ever done, aside from choosing a college and getting braces...And since I'm moving so far away and the culture is sure to be at least a tad different than that of the "dirt under your nails means you're working!" Midwest, I figured I should chronical some of my experiences so that, if for no one else but me, I had a record of what I went through.

So here is my first post. Status? Scared sh*tless. And super excited. Can a north mid-western "girl next door" make it in the historic south? I have 14 days before I find out...and I can't wait. :)