Calgary.

I should apologize for my absence and lameness lately. I am sorry.

Putting all this on hold, and the rest of the computer world as well, demonstrates a little bit of what my life has been like. This last month has almost been frozen for me. I got back from my trip to Ontario and had nothing to look forward to until leaving for Calgary. I couldn't start to pack, because there's only so much you can pack up of your life a month before you go. I couldn't do anymore about my student loan stuff, because I had to bring it to the school for them to sign. I couldn't get or do anything for my apartment because I didn't even know what it was going to be like. So the first 3 weeks of the month were spent waiting and waiting, getting nothing done. Then the last week hit. All of a sudden I had to pack up everything, say my goodbyes, and get ready to go. The month of August almost stood completely still. It was like everything was on hold until last week when it all hit me at once.

So I spent all day Monday and Tuesday packing, saying goodbyes (except to people who didn't even realize I was leaving ugh.), and getting ready to go. I flew into Calgary Wednesday morning, and Michelle arrived that night. We got the keys to our apartment and thus began our adventure. We spent that night with our good friend James (since we have nothing yet).

But we're on our way, we're making it work! As of right now:

• both our clothes are shoved into our closets without any shelves or hangers
• Michelle sleeps on an air mattress, with no pillow
• I sleep on a borrowed foutton, in the living room
• we spend our spare time watching only VHS movies on a 13" TV sitting on the floor in the living room
• and we eat our limited selection of food out of Tupperware containers, and the 2 forks and knives we borrowed from the boys

It's not as bad as it sounds though. We make it work, and we make it fun. Someday we'll own beds, and dressers, and dishes of our very own and it will be grand.

There is one thing I should leave you with though, something that will make you very proud of me, and to keep you from worrying about us. Saturday I bought, AND PUT TOGETHER, my very own coffee table. It is from Ikea, and although I do not personally own tools, I got ahold of some and made this beautiful masterpiece.

(and I tried to upload a picture of it, and it just isn't working out!)

Then I felt a little to tough for my own good so I finished off the day with a smoothie, doing my nails and watching How To Marry A Millionaire!

I am feeling so much better being here. This summer was hard, but now that's it's over (as always happens) I realize all that I learned from it, and I am just grateful to take it all to a new place, for another adventure!