29 August 2008

Time for Flitterin' Again

There is this song in Summer Magic that seems to fit.

"It's time for flitterin',
Dustin' off the trunk and flitterin' far,
Where the grass is greener
Now and then comes the time again
For flitterin'.

We'll soon be packin' up,
Stackin' up our dreams and bric-a-brac for
Some new destination
Don't know where, but we're goin' there,
We're flitterin' again.

New places, new faces,
New friendships will start
While old places, old faces
Stay dear to our heart

As we go flitterin'
Followin' a rainbow glitterin' bright
Over the horizon
Maybe then and maybe there
We'll settle down and never care
For flitterin', flitterin', flitterin'...again."

27 August 2008

Talk About Timing...

Big news. Reid has accepted a job at Pixar! He will still be flying here on Sunday, but will only be staying for three weeks. Then Reid goes back to CA to start work on the 22nd of September. I will follow soon after. We will for sure be out of Providence by the end of October. Reid will finish getting his master's degree at a later time, probably from a school in CA.

This is terribly exciting news! But I have to admit that I am going to seriously miss my friends here in Providence. Yet it's good to know that we'll stay in touch, and hopefully they'll come visit us on the West Coast!

I don't think this huge change has really sunk in for me yet. I am a little numb from the suddenness of it all. I'll keep you posted (ha ha)as things progress.

I'm going to California......

25 August 2008

World of Change

Providence is a city of movement and life. It seems as if everything and everyone are constantly undergoing alterations. I can provide yet another of these shifts. Yesterday, my roommate Shelly moved out. It's a little strange to not have her here in the evening. after three months of sharing meals, activities, and space. We had a great summer together and I miss her already!

But, I have to admit that I like the fluctuations of the city. We've only been here a year, and already been in two apartments. And so I am enjoying this little space of time where I have the apartment all to myself. Sunday Reid will come home. Yay! It will certainly be wonderful to have him back! We will have a couple days together, to get a few things done, and get to have some fun too! Then things will change again as classes begin on the 3rd. Our friend Scott will get back from vaca and move in. We are looking forward to having him!

So today I have been busy busy starting to get ready for the guys. What better way to prepare for change than to change everything around you? If you know me at all, you know I have been moving things around, re-organizing, cleaning, sorting, etc. I never seem to get tired of recreating a space. I guess I fit in well in this ever-modifying place.

I know that there is almost a month until the official first day of Fall, but with schools starting back up, students pouring back into the city, and the sun setting so much earlier here, it is certainly feeling like the end of summer. It's hard to believe three months have passed since Reid left for CA.

The world just continues to change around me. Sometimes I feel like Hugh Grant in Knotting Hill, walking down the street as the world shifts. But then I look back, and I realize I've changed too. This one week of calm, and then we'll see what the wind brings...