Tuesday, November 19, 2002

 
whew.....what a drive. it was a grueling 24 hour trip in the car with a miserable, LOUD mewling cat, little sleep and crummy gas station food. we got in about 7 am monday and slept for about 4 hours. then we got up, shopped for pens and paper so i could work on my sisters bridal shower invites, ate supper and did more than half of the 34 invitations before crashing. didnt get to see the meteor shower, but i needed sleep more.
today we go pseudo xmas shopping for the holiday-ish thing we are doing with jeremys family tonight. then we see jeremys dad, jeremys friend and my friend angie tomorrow before leaving early Thursday morning. squeak seems to be alright. hes skulking around trish's house, all nervous and curious. hes certainly braver when jeremy or I are around, and he will only venture so far before racing back to "our" bedroom. i moved the little box to the bathroom and started the downstairs movement of his food/water dishes. i think he will be alright. squeak will be really, really lonely for us, i know, but this is a big new house for him to explore and trish/posse are really nice. he wont be terrorized on purpose by them...it will just take a while for him to relax enough to hang around them without hissing and biting. the drive back without him will be bizarre....even stranger will be the empty catless house in atlanta. ugh. if i think about it too much, i start to get weepy.
the car thing is moving along...some guy had called about my ad in the auto trader and wanted to see it last saturday. we both were going out of town this week, and he said he wasnt in a rush, but then he kept rushing me. we picked up the car from chip's (the guy who was doing the body work for me) at 2 pm, i met the guy at 3:30, we drove around for a while and he inspected the car. then he took it to get it looked at (we drew up this little contracty thing that said he needed to bring it back on saturday, he had to put the same amount of gas into it, only put on 100 miles or less, and any damages that occured while the car was in his care, he had to fix. he gave me $500 cash as a depoisit. i just hope that for all the trouble he a) brings the car back and b) actually buys the car. i just wired funds to my credit union yesterday to pay it off so that when i got home on friday, the title would be waiting for me. one less obstacle for this guy buying the car. wish me luck...it would be so nice not to have to worry about that anymore. i think the guy will pay me $6500 for it, god willing that his dealer mechanic doesnt find anything wrong with the car. i wanted a little more, but just having it done and over with is worth that $500, you know?
otherwise, i keep returning to the huge to-do list in my head for when we return to atlanta. there is still a lot to do...a lot of packing and cleaning before tuesday. i fear many sleepless nights...and that plane ride may very well be the first chance i'll have to actually crash for a long period of time. i still cant really wrap my head around actually being there. just the preparations are freaky enough.
posted by Julie Dorn 7:44 AM