Basic Apathy

Do you ever get the blahs? You know the feeling-- that you even though you have a gazillion things to do you'd rather just curl up with a good book and maybe fall asleep?

Or eat a giant pile of alcohol soaked chocolate.

I have so many things I need to be working on but for some reason I have absolutely ZERO motivation.

Maybe it's starting to hit me.

You see we have lived her too long. Five years is just too long to stay in a place and then not stay. Wow, that was amazingly not coherent. But it is also true. I have friends here. I have awesome neighbors. I have a support network. People actually put up with me here! I know where all the stores are.

Oh no. It's happened. No matter how hard I fought it, I put down roots. Even though I knew when we moved here that it probably wasn't "forever" I let this place get under my skin. The people here are so friendly and we have managed to worm our way into people's lives and now I REALLY am scared to move. How will I home school when I can't call my mentor every time I hit a snag? What person will be willing to watch my cats? Who will call me just to say hi and tell me a joke when I'm bored, or stressed, or lonely?

I painted the walls! I picked a color and for the first time I actually started to make the house home.

Once again we have to pack up and walk away from everybody we have come to care so much about. We were strangers in a strange land and we fell in love with Southern hospitality. Maybe not the humidity or the fast food drive through windows so much, but the charm, grace, compassion, strength, and sincerity are hard to resist. So in honor of all my southern friends here are the

Top ten Southern things I'll miss up north:
10. Red Dirt
9. Interesting Road kill. You just don't see things like possums and armadillos and vultures up there except in the zoo!
8. The powder sugar beaches. But I guess we'll all be missing that.
7. Knowing that every neighbor is armed. If a revolution comes, y'all are prepared!
6. How everybody is so friendly--people smile and wave when they cut you off
5. Wearing shorts in November
4. My neighbors
3. Southern Courtesy
2. Southern Hospitality
1. All y'all who have touched my heart. I'll be bawling the whole way north, I expect.