It’s been a long long long long day and I am tired tired tired. I’ve been slacking on the Friday Five. I’ll do it later after I’ve gotten about 10 hours of sleep.

Having a good time here but I miss Ben like crazy and I’m ready to be back home and in his arms… Soon.

G’night all.

*passes out from exhaustion*

Well, I made it back to Bakersfield without a hitch. The bus driver let us sit at the very front of the bus even though you aren’t supposed to so Cassidy could look out the big window. He also bought her some cookies. He was a nice guy and she talked his ear off for six hours and he loved every second of it. It was too cute.

Gonna hang out with Lacie and Jim tonight and just kick back and visit everybody while I have the chance. We are going shopping for a friends birthday party that is tomorrow. So… I’m off to shop. Might not blog again till I get home to San Jose so over and out for now and everybody have a safe and fun weekend.

Day #4 in San Jose.

I could get REALLY used to having the doors and windows open all day long. I love to have the sound of the tree’s rustling, the wind blowing, the faint sounds of children riding bikes and people taking walks. I love to bring the outside in. I sit here at the computer and look out this huge window next to me and see a giant tree instead of the apartement across the way… Our back balcony is surrounded by trees too so even though we live in an apartement, I feel very secluded and like we have a lot of privacy. The front balcony has trees all along it so it’s shaded and cool all day long. It’s soooooo nice. Ben and I discussed getting a bunch of plants for inside the house as soon as we have the money to spare. I’m excited. I love it!

Cassidy and I went swimming yesterday and she met two very cute little girls to play with down at the pool. She’s DYING for Ben to swim with her so we are all going again tonight when he gets off work.

Tomorrow morning EARLY (and thanks to my daddy!) we are going to take a bus to Bakersfield so Cassidy can visit Troy and I can get my car. I’ll be there till Sunday evening. I can’t WAIT to have my car up here. There is so much I Want to do but I feel bad having to ask to borow Ben’s car.

Well, off to put the finishing touches on the packing. I’m like three boxes away from being home!!!!

So, elaboration time:

I got a call from Ben about 12:30 Saturday morning while at a party with my friends. He was driving into town to see me. He told me, ‘I’m driving down and I want you to move this weekend.’ It was a total shock. There were a million reasons I had come up with to procrastinate the move. Some were silly, some were VERY important to me, some were aparent, some were hidden secrets, some were from fear…

I knew that if I didn’t make the move soon that Ben and I were not going to be doing too great. I knew that losing him over 240 miles would be something I would have regretted for the rest of my life. To not lose him because I didn’t love him, or because we didn’t get along, but over… space. So, I latched onto the fact that I trust him, and love him… and I said, ‘Okay, I’ll move.’

I’m not sure I was TOTALLY ready, but I do know that I this was something I had to do. It was one of those times in life that you grasp ahold of the fear and use it to succeed…

Well, I am now a resident of San Jose. We got everything moved in yesterday. I’m going to spend the day today unpacking, organizing, and swimming.

I want to elaborate on the decision to come up here because it came across kind of the wrong way in that last blog post but I have A LOT to do today so I’ll probably wait till tonight sometime. I’m hoping I can remember to tell Ben to bring home the webcam so I can get a few snapshots of the place and you can all see pictures.

Well, boxes are calling. More later.