We are still packing. There is an issue packing the TV but that's mostly resolved. I am determined to be out of here today even if we don't make it out if the state.

So much moving ~ma. I have been super busy and not posting much, but I have been doing a lot of shaking of my head and commiserating! Moving is one of my very least favorite things.

Penny was a very good traveller. I did give her a tablet or half of one this morning so she spent most of the day prior to being in the car drugged.

But she was fairly quiet and once we got on the interstate and kept moving she totally settled down. However, there was a minor escape at the hotel (the carrier door came open while I was trying to open the hotel room door). I corralled her and she hid and then came out a bit, hissed at her reflection in the mirror , and then hid some more. She hasn't eaten but I'm waiting for her to eat so I can take up the food and water again. Horrible sounding but better than dealing with the effects of that in the moving van.

I also left the Feliway spray in the van. When we get breakfast I may run out and get it and then spray everything down. She's adjusted to the collar I got her so that will be staying on and Mom is going to get one for her cat. Which hopefully will help.

Today was...there was a point where I got totally overwhelmed and was just convinced I would never leave. That I'd be mired in the limbo of wanting to but being unable to forever. Which isn't realistic but I was very emotional the past few days.

I meant to buy a memento for my nephew and get some Vermont local beer for my brother but the only beer was in bottles and I didn't to deal with broken beer bottles in the back or stuck with the beer under my feet.

You're doing great askye. Good for you and good for Penny.

Moving is always harder than we think it will be, and yet we keep managing it.

Question answered elsewhere... never mind...

I adulted today. I worked for 4 hours, did my grocery shopping, put gas and oil in my car, wiped the headlights with stuff to make them clearer, and now I'm doing laundry, because it seems, no one else in this building does theirs on Sat. They all do it on Sun. like I do. Huh.

I had to tell some one that I adulted for a change.

Yay, adulting! You get a shiny gold star

I applaud the adulting! Gold star from me, too.

It's a working weekend, where the work is researching breweries and beer stuff in Birmingham, AL. So interviews, running around, drinking beer. I'm so tired and OD'd on beer - not drunk, just low level thick-headedness and full stomach and tastebuds full of malt and hops.

It's been a long day - a good, productive day - but a long one. I love my job, but it's definitely work!

Yay, adulting!

We went to Mario Batali's new Babbo restaurant in Boston tonight to celebrate our 5th anniversary. So good!