Can I keep complaining until the last minute?

Ugh. So yesterday we had scheduled an appt. to have really expensive travel shots and we cancelled. John had food poisoning, and I was trying to figure out why all the books said that the shots could be had cheaper than $120 a shot (!). It would appear that San Diego County health Dpt. does NOT do travel shots (what?!). So I called Los Angeles County Health and ended up on one of their websites through Orange County and have found the shots for....$40 for the Hep A & B combined, $30 for Typhoid and no charge for Tetanus/Diptheria. Wow, big price difference. We get to go on Oct. 8th. John will take the inflatable and outboard this weekend to Baja for a try out and will be back next week sometime. We still need to get the new fridge installed in the camper, new leafs and springs for the suspension and a new table that is wider. I am still in the midst of making lists for the clothes that we will take, curriculum and bathroom/kitchen that we will be taking with us in the camper.


I just want us to have everything done prior to going. Then I will be not sleeping for a completely different reason. Ack.

quick notes

This coming up week is make-all-the-lists-that-I-can week. I need to get over to the storage and determine if anything in there needs to go with us to Central America, needs to be thrown away or given away or repositioned so that we can actually use it. I am going to catalogue everything in there and that will be that. Next, I need to go through all the storage in the trailer and determine what can be thrown away or given away, what will need to stay and what will go with us. In addition to that, I need to figure out what will actually FIT in the new pop top camper. I need to contact my hearing aid place and see if they can order me a case of batteries, and I need to contact the travel clinic and see if we can put ourselves on a schedule to start our shots. I need to see if there are any gaps in the wardrobes (does Teresa actually have a pair of jeans that fit her? Does Leo have jeans that are not too short? Does everyone have some sort of rain jacket?) and if there are gaps, fill them. Yup, this will be list week.
what books to bring!?!?!

Procastinator, here!

ugh, can it possibly be that I don't really want to do anything with the trip? I gave myself the weekend off and still I cannot find it in me to sit down and get things done.

I need to realize that I re-organized the bookshelves, and the toy chest, but...what I need to do is go through the junk on my side of the bed (off to the side of it) and get it put away, vaccuum and then get my medical paperwork together for my dr. appt. on the 10th and my hearing aid paperwork in order. That extra $2,500 will be really handy.

get to work, Toni!

making lists, checking them twice

Well, I see one of my friends is telling me to "breathe". Yup, here it is, number 1 on the list of things to do....LOL. So we are making lists and trying to remember that we are limited in space and do we want to keep this with us or does it go into storage, or what the heck is that thing for anyway, maybe we should just give it away! Yup, right here on the list under, #13) lose my mind!

At least my sense of humour is still intact and just a bit off the wall still...

what the heck can I do?

I wake up thinking about my novel all the time. Things I can add for description and things about the seperate characters.

And then last night, bam! I got a new idea for a new novel. Ugh. Can't I turn this creative churning off? I can't keep thinking up new ideas for novels when I am still writing the first one.

Anyways, for what its worth here goes, it is a sci fi novel about a rape.

Am I flexible or what?!

John and I discussed whether we were going to leave SD for Baja on the 20th of this month...naw!

I guess with all that needs to be done on the truck and all that needs to be done to our storage unit and re-organizing of the trailer, it just makes sense to go ahead and stay another month. That way we will have it all done prior to going, we will be going with a clear head about what is behind us and what we will come back to. This also gives me the opportunity to file for our Private School Afadavit between the 1st and 12th of Oct. And the kids can still attend their friends stuff until then.

I am also going to plan on having a couple of different ways for the kids to say goodbye to their friends, one at the swim team, one at the pool here in the trailer park and one at the parkday that we attend in Tierra Santa.

I am hoping that I can see my cousins one last time and of course, get together with my girlfriends one last time.

It also gives Kit Kat, our new dog, that much more time to get used to us prior to being thrown into a situation where we are moving fairly constantly.

19 days before we leave...or something like that

Ack! We are leaving in 19 days and I have these odd thoughts about, "oh, I need new running shoes" OR "looks like I will need to buy some new flip flops" OR "can I get this or that before we leave". The other things that run through my mind is how many things we can re-visit before we leave. Museum of Man? Check. Ruben H. Fleet? Check. Zoo? Wild Animal Park? Old Towne? Natural History Museum? CostCo?(OK that is just that I am beginning to stress myself out. doncha know?).

I know that all of it will get done. Its just something that I want be orderly about it, and once again it seems at the end to happen higgedly piggedly. Will I see Lori Y. and Laura C. before leaving? Will we see Rick and Janelle in San Pedro? Will I get to see Audrey and rub her belly for luck?(she is pregnant right now)

Stay tuned. It may or may not happen and if it doesn't, I will survive!