Today it's not so ugly.
My intentions to post many moving posts are still pending, loading or whatever other waiting analogies there are, but I just wanted to take a break from complaining and pat my pack-rat back a couple times. I saved something good ya'll.
When I was in 7th or 8th grade, who knows which, all I know is my Dad was deployed for both, my classmate entered a contest on Kirkland AFB. She wrote a poem. She read it outloud to me and after she was through she said, "Bette, I won. And, I want you to have it." She then handed me the original paper she turned in. It was the actual paper the judges had written on, their initals and grades. I refused, I said "You should be so proud of yourself and you need to hold on to this". She shook her head and left it on my desk. I'm not thirteen anymore, I'm almost twenty-three. I still have it.
I love this, because at the end of the day, it's all about who has got your back. Thanks Courtney (who has long since moved and so her digits and address are useless), this poem trekked across the globe with me a couple times. Today instead of smelling paint fumes and wood polish, I'm getting whiffs of New Mexico green chile and daydreaming about hot air balloons.
And a quick quip to all the welcome wagon that has paraded through our house, "nice gesture" "cool do you like my painting overyalls"? I should be grateful but I slightly feel like a circus, the couple that brought by a bag of fruit. God bless you, because I feel less circus-y more welcome-y. Part of moving means you're an anomaly and people are allowed to stare at will, and come in to size you up and get a sneak peek of your extra large sized mess. Haha, no the neighborly hellos have been warm and kind but I'm still in moving dragon mode, I'm Bette the beast because this is hard. Moral of this quip is, "Hi, Oh yes nice to meet ya'll my name is Bette, so do you have french fries? Ohhhh you don't? K come back on by in like two weeks after I've showered and unpacked my brain. We'll try this again."
I'm sure soon I'll be falling in love with these surprise visitors and I'm sure they'll supply me with cherished memories like Courtney did. Allllllora ci vediamo.
