I have been the world’s most horrible blogger.

And, you can bet this isn’t some turning point in my blogging. Just because I blogged again, doesn’t mean I’m gonna become like Al and blog everyday.

So, I have 13 more days of work. Count ‘em: 13. Craziness. It doesn’t feel like I’m going to be leaving yet. It just feels like I’m doing the work. I can’t believe I’ve been here for three years. I can’t believe how familiar I am with this position. I can’t believe that I’m going to be leaving my boss and my coworkers. I never thought I’d feel any sense of loss over leaving. Heh. I don’t actually feel too much loss. I guess it’s because I’ve always kinda known that this position was just a transitional job. I always planned on leaving after a few years. I am having some separation anxiety in leaving the work. I feel like I’ve poured a lot of myself into this product that I’ve created. It’s hard to try to teach it to someone new. But, she’ll do fine with it. I hope she improves it and makes it worlds better than what I’ve made it into.

So, I’ve been doing a bit of reflecting lately on the past 3 years since college. It has not been the smoothest ride, but it has been a character building, faith stretching one. A few highlights:
(1) the best roommate to date leaving me and our beautiful Oakland apartment
(2) getting screwed over by the crazy girl from Boston who was supposed to move into my place
(3) meeting and dating Jason *warm fuzzies*
(4) CIBC: youth worship, YAF core, worship team…and then leaving to go to…
(5) Berkeley Mosaic: a community group that has challenged me to love the Word, encouraged my weary soul, taught me what it meant to love one another in Christ, and introduced me to limeade and que bueno!
(6) My mom getting sick, my sister going to college. It’s a new place for my family. We have grown so much closer and better for it. My love for my family has deepened, taking strong root
(7) Spiritual apathy to devotion to apathy to devotion to apathy…you know what I mean…
(8) Weeks and weeks of phonetag with O.
(9) Thursday drive-home calls with Al.

So, I’m moving out of Oakland on June 9. And then I get on a plane June 21. There will be crying when I leave my family. I will cry when Jason leaves Baltimore. But haha! I will be back! End of July for more locations of Wedding Tour 2004.

And, guys, suddenly, we’re all adults. Those of you who have dreamed of moving and being a missionary, you’ve moved to other countries to be missionaries. You have gotten engaged, or married, or pregnant. You have changed jobs; you have become teachers (real teachers teaching real kids!), you have gotten Master degrees; you have had to deal with car repairs from hell; you have fallen into debt and paid off debts. We are adults.

And it’s kinda bittersweet. I want to say, “BLEH!” but I also want to say, “BRING IT!”

Ok, I’m prattling on and on and on…
Enough for now. I will try to be better about blogging. Thank you for still checking and reading.