I can’t believe it’s already the last few days of August. Where has the time gone?

All I know is that Hubby & I have been busy non-​​stop since return­ing to the “Flat Fields” of the Mid­west.** We returned to Chi-​​town (via Detroit after Seat­tle) on Thurs­day and have pretty much been pack­ing up our apart­ment since then.

Yes, I know. We should have been packed for our move to our new apart­ment before leav­ing for our Alaskan Adven­ture … but if you recall from this post, exactly where we were going to live was still up in the air right up until just before we left for Alaska.

And then there’s the whole mat­ter of me fly­ing out to North Car­olina today … which also hap­pens to be the only day in which we’d be able to pick up the keys to our new place.

Yes … the trip to North Car­olina in which I’ll be attend­ing my New Employee ori­en­ta­tion for my new job. For an entire week. The same week in which we’d need to hand in the keys to our old apart­ment by Tues­day night.

So if you haven’t fig­ured it out by now … this means that:

1. Hubby and I had less than three days to pack up our old place,
2. Hubby & I only have three days to move all our crap stuff into our new place, and
3. I wasn’t going to be around to help move all our crap stuff.

Uh-​​huh. That’s right. I’ve totally bailed on Hubby. And believe me … I feel absolutely hor­ri­ble about it.***

What’s worse is that Tues­day is our 14^th Wed­ding Anniver­sary … and we won’t even be in the same state! This will be the first time we’ll have been apart dur­ing any type of spe­cial day. Boo.

And tomor­row … well, tomor­row I start my new job. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t ner­vous, but I guess the only thing I can do is go into it with my head held high … and pray for the best.

Despite all the “brick walls” we’ve been encoun­ter­ing lately, I must admit that I’m excited with all these new changes: nicer (yet smaller) and more afford­table apart­ment, and a new career direction.

I just wish the tim­ing of it all didn’t suck.

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** Ugh … totally sucks not see­ing moun­tains in the back­ground any­more. We so miss Seat­tle right about now!

*** Thank you (from the bot­tom of my heart) to my In-​​Laws, who are cur­rently in Chicago help­ing Hubby out!!