The Countdown

Although it has been a while since I have last posted, not much has been going on. The holiday season came and passed with many visits to family. I spent about a week in Knoxville with my sister Emilie and her husband Gabe.  I also got to see my brother Steve while I was there, which was a lot of fun. Then I came home for a couple of days to spend Christmas with my family. After that I went to visit my sister Mary and her husband Trevor in New Orleans for a little over a week, which was a lot of fun. I spent New Year's Eve there with two of my best friends Agi and Alison and we went down to the levy to watch the fireworks on the Mississippi, which has to be the muddiest river I've ever seen. The fireworks were gorgeous. They reminded me of the time when I was little and my parents and I (and probably a sister or two) went to Charleston for the 4th of July and we watched the fireworks there.

Other than that, not much has happened. Just been visiting with friends and the like to pass the time and make sure that I get to see almost everyone before I leave. The weather here has been abnormally frigid with iced roads and snow and everything! Brr..!  Alabama won the National Championship... yay. Roll Tide.

I repacked my suitcase after I weighed it and it was 6 pounds overweight. :) Got everything I need (and probably more than that realistically) to fit into my suitcase and carry on. Yay! So that's all done. Now its just the waiting game before I leave. I leave on Wednesday, and I'm hoping by then that the horribly cold weather will have cleared up here, in Chicago, and in Europe. (Europe has been having lots of really horrible cold weather. Chaz has been stuck in England for like a week). So at the moment I'm just counting down the days and keeping my fingers crossed that the weather will clear up before I leave!!