Tomorrow, I'm heading out west again, to Oklahoma for Aaron's graduation. (Somebody's gotta pin those wings on him) It's going to be an action-packed weekend. I fly out of Charlotte at 3:30, go through Dallas and get to Wichita around 8:30 (Not too bad) and then it will take us a couple of hours to get back to base. Thursday morning is a breakfast, Thursday afternoon is a tour of the base, and that night is a dinner. Friday morning is the actual graduation and Friday night another dinner (this one pretty fancy, so I hear--cue Becca's clothes dillema). Saturday we'll have to relax and maybe breathe a little? And then Sunday I'm back in the air heading back to Columbia. Somebody's going to be tired.
I'm also officially homeless. After one of the most exhausting weekends on record (Friday night, Silver Elephant--worked till about midnight, Saturday morning, State Convention--woke up at 4 AM to get there at 5 AM, went straight from there to roommate's wedding and hung out at reception and with friends until late, woke up Sunday morning and packed up the U-Haul and then drove it to Augusta and spent the night with my parents and was back at work Monday morning by 8:30 AM), I am living out of my car. Two cars, really (I have one of the parents' cars). My clothes are in tupperware containers and laundry baskets in the back of my car--my toiletries, shoes, video camera and digital camera (all of the essentials) were packed tightly into my suitcase, along with a fleece jacket. Cleary no rhyme or reason to how I packed. I think I was just trying to do it quickly. BUT all is not lost: I'm getting to stay with Matt and Mary Neil, who were kind enough to lend me their spare bedroom for a couple of weeks until I start housesitting. It's just like when Mary Neil and I would have spend the night parties on week nights when we were in middle school or high school-- only this time, she there's a husband involved :)
WELL, that is the gist of my life over the last week or so. Here are some pictures from the weekend and post-wedding celebration with old pals. I'll be sure to post some good ones from graduation this weekend.
Until then, happy trails...
Here I am with my great pal Kelley Kirker. We have joked this year that we've been on "Wedding Tour 2008"--we've done weddings in San Diego, CA, Birmingham, AL and Columbia, SC together so far. We've still got one to go--a very special one on October 18th in Edisto (I hear the bride and groom are real champs...)
THIS is a CLASSIC JoBeth and Tombo picture. So in a tribute to our friends who weren't with us that night, Meesh, Matt and I decided to get a Kodak moment that would let them know we were thinking about them.
The nightswimming crew.
One of the three of us just being normal--no guns to be seen in this one.
A group shot of our table at Jake's. Kelsey, Emily, Kelley, Anthony, Neal, Chris, Jeff, Michelle and Matt.
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