More Leaps Forward

We figured it would take two trips to get everything out of my brother's garage, well we got everything but one basket which is pretty nuts. I still have lots of sorting to do of the boxes but its all here which makes it simpler.

Also I have a lease agreement from the place in Ann Arbor to look at and sign and who knows, I might have a place there.

Though in not so great news, I tripped coming down the stairs after reading to the girls last night and sprained my ankle so I'm moving a lot slower and the weather is rather icky and rainy.

Oh and my birthday keeps going on, my brother and his family gave me a pretty carafe and a year's subscription to this awesome cooking magazine called Cook's Illustrated. So other than my ankle hurting quite a lot, things for Michigan just keep moving forward so quickly, its amazing.

Edit for a wonderful meme: If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

The answer to this is yes, oh yes and I'm so grateful to have such amazing friends.

Endings and Beginnings

I just sorted through a car's worth of clothing and other random things that have been in my brother's garage for about two years and some even longer. A lot of the clothing hurt a bit to look at and realize wow I was that skinny but other things I tried on and went oh you still fit.

I found a tweed hat that I bought in Dublin which I thought I'd lost years ago which is only a little bent. Also I found my favorite summer dress that I have loved for oh so many years and it still makes me feel beautiful.

So there were lots of discoveries and a number of things that are going to be passed on so they can make someone else feel beautiful. There are a few things that I'm saving because they make me happy.

Though all that sorting means my ankle's hurting a bit more but the car is cleared out, getting everything out is done, later there will be moving the stuff that's saved upstairs but not at the moment.

This is the start of a transformation as I move forward to a place which is going to help me find ways to actually do the kind of job I love and also be also in an environment where I can get myself sorted out. I think I've been stuck for so long that it took a bit to start getting out of the mire but I'm shaking it off my feet and heading head long into the future.