During the trip down I tweeted about our trip. Here is the whole string:

	Wylie posted Thanks all for the safe travel tweets. So far so good! #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Down in Auburn, AL. Truck is all packed and ready to go in the morning. Tired and sore, but full on Mellow Mushroom! #avl2tx
	Wylie posted First, breakfas,t than driving for 6 hours. That’s the plan. End of the day will have me and @tessb42 in Baton Rouge. #avl2tx
	Wylie posted At a flying J for some relief http://bit.ly/MWIYP #avl2tx
	Wylie posted http://twitpic.com/adglo – Getting gas in Mississippi #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Finally in Baton Rouge. Time to find some dinner #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Need more sleep, or maybe just coffee, not ready for the road quite yet. #avl2tx
	Wylie posted in the Bayou #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Ah the flatness http://twitpic.com/afsil http://bit.ly/RSwHR #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Hello Texas! #avl2tx
	Wylie posted Finally in Bryan, TX! http://twitpic.com/ahuc0 http://bit.ly/YULkT #avl2tx
	Wylie posted RT @wylie: Finally in Bryan, TX! http://twitpic.com/ahuc0 http://bit.ly/YULkT #avl2tx

‘Twas the night before moving,

and all through the house…

All the boxes were waiting,

they’ll quite soon be roused!

That’s right, folks! Move day is upon us! Wylie will get the truck in the morning and we will fill it up and be on our way (in 2 shifts—Ahseville to Auburn; Auburn to College Station, with a night somewhere in between…)!!! We will be on the lookout for interesting things along the way, so check back often!

I guess I better try to get some sleep or something…

Over the Fourth of July weekend, Teresa and I traveled down to Georgia. First we went to visit friends in Athens for the Fourth. We wandered around downtown since Teresa had not been to Athens before, than we went back to our friends house and had a cookout. Some great corn-on-the-cob, asparagus, and of course, burgers. There were a few Roman Candles lit, and some beer was had, and some Catchphrases was played. A great Fourth.

On Sunday we traveled to Atlanta where my sister is for a month, and went to the Georgia Aquarium with her. The video below is of our fishy adventure. After the aquarium we went to a nice restaurant, suggested to us by our Athens friends, R. Thomas’. Outside they had several big cages full of big parrots. Very weird, but pretty darn neat. Overall it was a fantastic weekend in Georgia.

Today marks the one week mark. Next Monday I pick up a moving truck, pack it up, and drive down to Auburn to pick Teresa up. We should be in Bryan Texas by next Thursday if everything goes like it should.

I wouldn’t have believed this prior to moving to Asheville.
It sure took it’s time getting to me, though I suppose that is what makes it unexpected…

Well…In preparation for the move and in an effort to take some of the lessons I have been learning from all of the Clean House marathons I have been watching lately (don’t ask. I have no good answer besides procrastincation.), I had a yard sale yesterday with lots of my junk and some of Wylie’s things. It was a week of living in mayhem to get ready for it–stuff literally everywhere in various stages of being sorted and whatnot, but the big day came yesterday and it was very interesting…Up very early to get everything out there and set up in a way to make junk look appealing somehow…And it must have worked! The people started coming around 6:30 and it was steady until about 10. Many things were sold, and many treasures have good new homes. It seems that having a pile of “free” stuff makes people want expired microwave popcorn, 1/2 used bottles of turtle wax, and gently used three ring binders–luckily the majority of that box went to a teacher.

The best thing about it–besides the money at the end and the feeling that I had somehow gotten something for nothing (which isn’t true at all, but somehow it still seems that way)–were the characters. I found out that I have a neighbor accross the street who likes to stay up all night (she literally got home as I was setting up) and wanted me to know that she used to smoke a lot of pot with the kid who used to live in the front unit of my house. This explained lots of that kids’ behavior before he moved out. I also could have had a new boyfriend in a mumbling man who “just rides” on the weekends and picks up lawnmowers to repair and sell for $30. I was not interested. There were other characters as well, and the social scientist in me spent a good part of the morning trying to come up with a good research question so that I could do a study of yardsale folks…so if you have any ideas, let me know. I could not come up with anything that was justifiable, really.

Mainly, it is really satisfying to get rid of so much stuff. Once it got too hot to even think about staying out there any longer (around 11), I packed up what was left into my car–stuffed it to capacity, actually–and left it at the Goodwill. Ahhhhhh….I got my living room back! The craziest thing about it all is that we are literally 2 weeks from moving now. Hooray! Very soon we will actaully start talking about Texas on this thing….