in addition to spending time with my parents, i also was able to see some girlfriends of mine from high school, which was the most fun! even though it had been many years, it was just like yesterday! we had such a good time! we ended up getting frozen pizza and watching tv and talking all night. just like old times... courtney has a dog, an adorable miniature schnauzer (see below) and stacie and i discussed our plans (loosely defined) to move to portland in the spring/summer/fall/winter (however long it takes).
unfortunately, when i got home to atlanta things got more complicated. my car was broken into and my ipod stolen during a terrible rainstorm that left my passenger seat soaked, i overdrew my bank account, and then to top it all off my computer broke again, two months after my three year warrantee expired:
the good news is that a very sweet kind "genius" at the apple store took pity on me and allowed me to sneak my computer through as if still under warrantee, something i was even more relieved about when it came back with a brand new motherboard, the most expensive component of the computer.
the other good news is that i am fine and my family is fine, and my friends are fine, and my cats are fine. ben is trying to get me to see the relative lack of importance of these "things"-- they are all replaceable, after all. the important thing is to value the good things that are always there, you just have to look for them. i guess after a while you'll get used to doing it that way, and then you won't have to look so hard.
of course ben lives in portland now, so i miss him terribly. but, on the POSITIVE side, he is just a phone call away!!
charity :)
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