September 30, 2004

• Well, I just packed the last box.  What I’m most pleased about, though, is installing a smoke alarm ALL BY MYSELF!!!   I used to see a page of instruction and get this defeatist attitude.  Now, I just forge ahead, step by step.  I have the tools and I know how to use ‘em.  I can hardly wait for the movers to bring the stuff over here.  Friday morning I will wake up, go downstairs and there will be furniture in my living room.  It’s been five months now without furniture.  Five months of driving back and forth every day to water.  I don’t know how I stood it.  The other great thing about Friday is I get my puppy. 

  
  

  I talked to my middle daughter, who is going to school in San Francisco.  She and her best friend are coming home in late October.  She’s calling me a bunch now because she broke up with her boyfriend.  I love it when she wants my advice.  I mean I’m sad that she is having a hard time but I get an opportunity to pass on what I think is good advice.  The other thing I am liking is that she is really focused on school.  She’s studying advertising but every once in a while she thinks fine art sounds better.  I try to stay calm.  “Why don’t you take a painting class”, I say.  For living away from home, working, going to school full time, she’s doing great.  I’m really proud of the way she’s navigating her life. 

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