Valentine's Day Mayhem

Tonight is my last night in Michigan and I am freaking out. To be honest, I've been in shambles for about a week. I don't remember feeling this way leaving before, but I could be wrong. It's always easy to forget the times in your life when you behave like a lunatic. I do feel very alone right now and I think it has everything to do with the permanency of the situation. This is a career move, not a place where I will go to finish school or for a five month internship. I'm leaving a wonderful family in Michigan who has sacrificed so much for me. I will miss my nephew I have seen almost every day since he was born. But I have an amazing opportunity to move to Arizona for a great job in my field and I have made the decision to move knowing that this is the best choice and the right choice for now. I can't wait to experience a new place and actually start working. I have been a complete slacker since I left my internship in October and I also am becoming very poor. The idea of receiving a paycheck is almost as wonderful as that of finally finding a job.

Now for some exciting photos:














Here is Lucas showing us all his favorite past time: chewing on grandma's shoulder. And also a photo of him being entertained by grandpa. Who wouldn't laugh at a grown man wearing a hat with ears?

Sunday afternoon I drove home from visiting Griff and Jen in the G-rap. There was an ice storm that was complete insanity -- I am sure that I have never witnessed such a crazy 10 mile stretch of highway in my life. When I looked ahead of me I saw cars in the ditch and firetrucks' lights flashing, a cop on one side of the road attending to a car turned over and a tow truck on the other pulling out an SUV. Then I looked in the rear view and saw two cars drive into the ditch. I drove 35 miles per hour on the expressway. The point is that desert heat sounds great right now. Arizona, here I come.

Tonight was my last night at home and also
Valentine's Day so my parents took Julie and Jason and Lucas and I out for dinner.

Lucas was my date, but he slept through most of the meal.

I leave at 8 am tomorrow with my grandfather and since it's almost 2 I need to get going. I will post updates as I can, but probably not until the weekend when we make it to Sierra Vista.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~ Confucius