Packing and Getting Ready for the Upcoming Week

Spent the weekend thinking about what to pack and where it would go. But that started on Friday. Friday night I fretted over packing and what I would bring, how I would bring it, and what I really needed. Saturday soon came along. When I wasn't talking to my boyfriend, stuffing a sleeping bag into my hiking backpack (first time I actually get to use it, is on this trip), talking to my mom, or fretting over packing, I was enjoying the fact that it was my birthday. Then Sunday came along, and I spent the whole day with my mom as we watched many-an-episode of Nikita. I made her a card, and we spent the day talking and swimming in the pool. Then it was today, Monday. The day of the great packing challenge.

Now I am usually a pretty good packer, and I don't need a lot of stuff. So I am packing my bag when our 13 week old husky puppy decides that he doesn't want me to leave, and that packing is offensive. So he tries to pull everything out of my backpack. But eventually I get everything into the backpack that I need, and I am going to grab my laptop (the most fragile thing in that bag for the duration of the trip). I am in my bedroom (I decided to make the staging area in the corner of the living room), when I heard a crash. I run to see what had happened, and I find the puppy nosing through the bag with the contents EVERYWHERE! I guess he had tried to grab something from inside the bag, or had just grabbed the bag itself and pulled it off the table. But either way I spent an additional hour repacking and finding a taller place to put the bag, out of the reach of puppies. Meanwhile, my 2 year old lab/pit bull mix is watching the entire scene and giving me this look as if to say "I told you we shouldn't have gotten a puppy. Look at the trouble he caused. He did it, not me. I'm a good boy."

So eventually I got everything packed, looked at bus schedules to get the Red Mountain campus tomorrow morning (have to leave the house at 5:46 in the morning to get there on time, but I don't mind. This trip is worth it!), and decided to go swimming one more time before getting ready to go to bed. The snake has been fed and has water, Mom is going to take care of the dogs while I'm away (and remind my dog that I will be coming home eventually), and I'm mentally preparing myself to try to have a good time around a group I don't know very well (I am naturally shy and introverted).

Well that's all for today, be back later with more updates and stories from CEDO.