  Well, I haven’t had the opportunity to log on and update my blog much this week. Needless to say packing simply isn’t that exciting and I didn’t feel the need to share what a long week of living in boxes it was. I pretty much finished packing on Friday. That is, I worked my rear end off all day packing and by the time Liz came to rescue me at 8 pm, I was really ready for that last burst of energy and lots of help she provided. Thinking of everything, sweet Liz came early Saturday morning with Chick fil a for breakfast for everyone. Never had it before, but YUM!
The funny part was that I was laying in bed thinking I had plenty of time before everyone showed up Saturday morning, when a nock on my door sent me scurrying for my robe! NOT Liz!!! It was Door-to-Door delivering early. What a great service! I must say, I was really impressed with the pods and with the delivery guy and the follow up service. I definitely recommend them.
Again, due to Liz’s excellent thinking, everyone showed up early in the morning to pack the pods. We were totally packed by noon. It was perfect weather in the morning, humid, but cooler to pack and a really nice breeze. So I decided I wanted to completely finish up the apartment and not have to go back on Sunday. So Gary cleaned (thanks ever so much) and Liz packed my car (and got everything amazingly in there) and I ran around packing this, moving that and picking up the last bit of everything. Poor Liz and Gary went home with a ton of stuff out of my fridge.
After a nice long nap, I was feeling human again (if not a bit stiff). Gary and I went out to dinner in Frisco to Randy White’s BBQ – the best BBQ brisket in the DFW area – and actually got to meet and shake hands with Randy White!! It was very exciting! Sunday went by so fast – it was quite the blur. Breakfast at Krispy Kreme, went back to my apartment to load the fish (packed in a cooler) and plants into my car, then a nice visit with Kelly O’Neil (a friend from church) and then off to the movies and my going away party. One tiny hitch.
I talked too long with Kelly and thinking that the plants would be fine in our nice Sunday weather, I didn’t bother leaving until it was too late. It was then I realized I could not leave my poor FISH in the car!! So what do I do?!?! I simply plan on explaining that these were my Seeing Eye fish and I simply couldn’t watch the movie without them. If this logical reason wouldn’t work, I would resort to the truth. This was their weekly field trip and they were dying to watch a movie with me.
The beauty of this whole situation is that NO ONE in the entire movie theater stopped me and asked me what was in the cooler. I could have had beer…. The guys were extremely jealous. They claimed they couldn’t get in with a coke! I explained to them about the boob factor. Obviously they work well.
:) After seeing Collateral – a great movie even if Tom Cruse had a Richard Gere haircut – we went to Maggianos (again bringing those great party animals, the fish) And AGAIN, no one even questioned me why I was carrying a cooler through a fancy restaurant. I did have my excuse ready. I am homeless now and I find it easier to pack any leftovers straight into my personal cooler for convenience sake. But sadly I didn’t have to use that excuse either. Then God smiled on me again. Gary asked me if I had finished securing down the 3rd pod.
No, was I suppose to? What’s in it? The last leaf to my dinning room table. Shoot. Where am I suppose to find a blanket to wrap that in at the 9th hour?!? What’s that?
Debbie has a spare blanket in the trunk of her car that she’s been trying to get rid of. Sure I can have it!! How lucky can I be!!!! Thanks Debbie! Liz made me 2 very nice gifts for the party. I got a picture frame with 3 different photos of us in it that I will be hanging up on my wall right away.
I also got a stack of new CDs that have really helped pass the time in the car today!! Thanks so much Liz!! I made it until after dinner last night before I burst into tears. Much longer then anyone had anticipated (although I don’t know if anyone was taking bets or not…. I left this morning from Dallas around 9:30. I made it to Gallup now to sleep – it’s 11 pm Dallas time, but only 10 local.
Sheela’s loving the hotel room. She chewed on her foot while enjoying the bed and now she’s luxuriating by spreading herself out over the floor. Because she can. She’s done really well in the car. She travels so nicely. But this obsession of only peeing on grass is tough in New Mexico.
They can’t even grow trees around here much less grass!! Thank God for Sun City grass. She’d be hosed. The fish did fine too. No complaining from that quarter. I’m hoping to be in Phoenix early afternoon to unpack some of my car and have a fine dinner with my dear brother after he gets off of work.
I have something to look forward to!!! I’ll try to be better and post more frequently so I’m not getting this long weekend formats. I know I’ve also bragged to many about the outlook of my packed car. I promise to take a picture of how full it is before I unpack it! 
