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Detail One: Yesterday was the first day we officially had a new home. The first article moved into our new house? The sharp pointy collection, of course! We'll be moving like madpeople today I think, and we're having a moving party the following Saturday. Hopefully that will get ALL of the big stuff and most of the little too. This is going to be complicated by how much Raymond has to be out of town though. Between work and family it's going to be tight. Don't worry, I won't try to move anything but cleaning supplies back and and forth across the street on my own. I'm very excited. I need to take pictures of the few damages to the house today before we do anything else though. Just to make sure everything is square at the end, whenever that may be.

Detail Two: D&D should not be stressful. But apparently it is when you have an unstable DM who wants everything to go exactly the way he envisioned but can't seem to own up to that, and is fundamentally incapable of politeness. That's the way this seems anyway. He's been very rude, and if he didn't have two hundred dollars worth of Rifts books that belong to us right now, we would drop him entirely. As it is we will have to pull a fast one to get our books back without conflict. Grr. We'll form our own group with Raymond as DM, everyone should like that a lot.

Detail Three: In my quest for deep and rapid relaxation this week between the hecticness of school and moving, I have finished five books this week. They are: the eleventh book of the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Storm Front the first of the Dresden series by Jim Butcher (it's fantabulous), and the first three books of the Twilight series (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse) by young adult author Stephenie Meyer. I recommend them all highly, particularly the Twilight books. The fourth book came out today, and there will be a movie. Also, my adopted Uncle Vaz apparently wrote a book about the making of the movie already. How about that?

Okay, so I'm off to go move, and finish planning a coup. Unfortunately, no reading material until Wednesday. Guess I'll just have to write something.

P.S. If you have not seen it yet, go to Hulu.com and do a search for Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. Written and directed by Joss Wheadon, who did Buffy and Firefly, it is forty-five minutes or so of funny, slightly ridiculous, and highly poignant musical. Three Acts. Watch them now.

Amazing New Things

There have been some amazing things happening lately. I went to Raleigh to compete in the NCSBDC, and my schoolmates looked out for me. I said I wanted to go on the architecture trip to DC, and the money magically appeared. My classmates invited me to go to Virgina Beach with them afterwards, and I went. I received a scholarship that made a lot of things possible for me. Raymond's new job made it possible for me to go to Animazement this year, my first Con ever. Raymond himself graduated, and he alternates between working at home and going to Raleigh for a week at a time, where the company puts him up in a nice hotel and he is vastly appreciated by his coworkers. We've actually begun to be able to pay off our accumulated debts to family and cards, and set aside money for rainy days. I can buy a book now, and not have to agonize over every penny. (I still try to buy them used though. *shrugs*)

Much of that extra money has been sucked up, of course, by all the things we needed but were doing without, or by the things that suddenly broke into a million pieces as soon as we could afford to replace or fix them. The fish of gobbled down a great deal of it. Nevertheless, there was enough to spare, provided we are thoughtful about our expenditures large and small, that when the van began to die at stoplights and on the highway, we were able to decide that we had had enough. That's right, as of today, you are reading the blog of a person who has sold her soul for a 2007 Mustang convertible. Yes, it has a leather interior. Her name is Eve, and she is one sweet ride, with less than 8,000 miles on her. Payments are steep, but not as steep as they could have been. We crunched the numbers and even with our debts we can afford her, especially since we can expect Raymond to begin accruing raises after a year at least.

But wait, there's more! Raymond got a good chunk of change back from his company expense account. Not all of it, but enough to be happy making. And then yesterday, right down the road from us, a three bedroom house in a forested, fenced in lot directly next to a supermarket came up. It is adorable, very nearly perfect. We are looking at it today, because our lease is up in August at the apartments, and we really want a house. This one happens to be in our price range.

I tend not to believe in coincidences. Thank you, Universe, for the helping hand up the ladder. I surely do appreciate it.