road-trip-to-texas instagrams

here are a few instagrams of the long haul south from ann arbor to houston.  it was a pretty spectacular time-- i just wish steve and i had been able to share a car so we could laugh at the same casino-nail-salon-gas-station-home-of-the-original-deep-fried-pie-on-a-stick and play lots of 20 questions with answer "nicholas cage."  still, we made our way down from michigan via champaign, IL - memphis, TN - shreveport, LA and voila home to houston! the apartment is almost clean enough to document and introduce to y'all!

yes, i say y'all now.  and even though i have more reason than i used to, i'm somehow more self conscious about it.  don't worry.  let's move on... y'all...

over the course of our road trip i have upped my "states visited" number from 39 to 42 (i had never previously been in arkansas, louisiana, or texas).  i'm comin' for you oklahoma, idaho, oregon, mississippi, north dakota, montana, alaska, and hawaii!!

settling in so far!  lots of fun ahead!

notes from the move

can we all just take a moment to admire the sheer manliness of my boyfriend in a dirty undershirt behind the wheel of a 14' truck?  ok thank you, now back to your regularly scheduled blog post...

moving pretty much defined our weekend, which was a bit sad because... well... busy-not-100%-play-filled weekend.  but we also ended sunday with an epic feeling of accomplishment because we successfully loaded, unloaded, and drove (or, for me, rode along in) the u-haul.  this was on top of moving me to steve's (he doesn't have room for my furniture, but somehow he found room for my hoarding problem) and cleaning every inch of my townhouse.

it's always a challenge to make it through the week when you work all weekend, but on top of that, friday can't come soon enough because i'm going to see my sister at last!  hoorah!  still, can't i just quit this rat race and move to key west to write my novel?  hemingway totally made it work, right?  (well, minus the whole philandering and suicide thing).

still, we're pretty proud of ourselves (though i suppose we still have the second half of the move left to go).

counting down the minutes to san diego!

hope everyone's week flies by (unless of course you have reason to savor this random tuesday)!

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