Caitlin and I are finally done packing and are setting out on our three-day journey tomorrow. We've been anticipating this moment for a lifetime, it seems!
Though, don't get me wrong, I've actually rather enjoyed the time I've spent here. In some way, I think it was most necessary to go to some sort of transitory place of rejuvenation before starting over [again] somewhere new. Kind of like rehab.
Ha.
But anyhow.
I suppose you've noticed the adorable picture in the upper left by now.
For those of you who have not had the great pleasure of meeting this lovely pooch: this is Auggie.
She's the family pup. [Actually she's not so much of a pup. But I'm staying in denial!] She believes she is bigger and meaner than she is sometimes. We seem to have a fickle bond, she and I. Both of us being rather aloof, sometimes forget that the other exists. [She is most attached to Dave, my Step-Dad, and follows him around as puppies often do] But we always seem to know when the other is needed. She comes to me for bananas, I come to her when I'm afraid of the dark. She goes on walks with me when no one else will, and she gives me kisses when no one else will. I'll play with her rugged toys, stick ice cubes in her water, and occasionally chase her around the house just to get our blood flowing. We've developed a nice little system. Today we went on a walk around the neighborhood for the last time, and of course she was just about hanging herself with the leash half the time, and of course she stopped every eleven seconds to smell a new patch of grass. But I've got to say, she simply offers the most unconditional love I will probably ever know.
I don't quite know what prompted me to write an entry dedicated to her, other than that her birthday just passed and I'm leaving her tomorrow. I just think the girl deserves a little recogniztion like the rest of us!
Now off to bed so I don't fall asleep at the wheel tomorrow.
Love,
'Sea
