Home Sweet Home

Note that it is not, Home Sweet, Unpacked and Tidy, Home...

My apologies for being absent for the past few days.  I drove a day from SoCal to my parents home, spent a couple of days with them, loaded my car onto a trailer and then the 3 of us began the several day trek back to the middle.  Luckily we had a safe and relatively low key journey back to my previous home.  By the time we got here that night we were way too exhausted to consider unloading anything, so after getting some sleep we took on the unloading bright and early.  One of the brilliant things about living in a sorority house is that my things don't have to be unloaded into my apartment, but instead can sit outside in a common area while I organize.

The housekeeper wasn't able to get the room cleaned before we got here, which is okay, I prefer to take care of the majority of my own cleaning (aside from the bathroom...if your job includes the benefit of a housekeeper, you might as well enjoy it!).  I can honestly say I haven't scrubbed the baseboards in awhile, so I crawled around on the floor to get things good and clean and began moving furniture.  I had given some furniture to our chef (who was more than happy to leave it for me, but I really was ready to part with it and had made a commitment to him) so we moved that out to start.  Then I realized that the plan that I had in my head for a new furniture arrangement wasn't going to work, so I started moving things around and am pretty happy with how it turned out.  Once I get things completely unpacked I'll post a picture or two. 

Yesterday I took the day off to plan for an upcoming trip for a house director conference and a road trip with a wonderful friend that will follow.  I didn't actually mean to take the whole day off, but honestly, in the end it was a desperately needed break after the insanity of the last month.  My whole body was aching from weeks of being in a car, sleeping in hotel beds, moving boxes and furniture and so on...it was heavenly to just sit and watch "vintage" television for awhile.

Today I have plans to meet with a friend who advises at another chapter and then get back to the unpacking in earnest.  The only other break I plan to take today is to "shop" in my best friends closet for fun new items to take along on my upcoming trip.  We'll catch up more soon!