one sucker here...

well i channeled the spirit of sebastian on tuesday. i decided i would dress up to celebrate my day off. dustin was not sure if i dressed up in fancy clothes or dressed up in costume. i had gotten these tights in san francisco, and i was dying to wear them, but i thought (before now) that it would just be too cold. so i had put off even opening them. until tuesday!! they are black with silver sparkles. i thought i looked so cute, but dustin said, "oh. that is how you are dressing up." i had to convince him how great i looked. you be the judge. i vote--good!




we started looking for luggage today. that was the big outing. we were comparison shopping. not so exciting, but that lets you all know that we are ready for the party sebastian and dorian are throwing us when papa j, rob, and dust and i get back to vermont. it will be my best day. i can't wait to see those littles. i am excited to have all our stuff again. even our beat up couch. i miss the movies. i miss our tv. i miss the papasan. i miss monday night exercise class. i really miss our bed. man, do i miss that bed!
we have karen running around town looking at potential places for us to live (thank you!!). we have taken the kitties for their shots (to ride in the plane, they have to have proof of their yearly shots). so things here are getting finalized. i signed up for organic chemistry 2 last week. we are finishing season 2 of lost so rob and quinn can start season three with us. i get to quit my job tomorrow. it has been really glamorous putting shoes on people, but i have learned a lot. so that is good. i am nervous to quit. i guess the worst they can do is just let me go on the spot, and that is not so bad, but i just hate quitting. i feel like i will let them down. and they do seem to like me. but it needs to be done. and it was going to happen sooner or later. at least i have a good excuse, we have to go home to our friends and family. and we will be back. better just to rip that band aid right off than to take it one pull at a time, right. so tomorrow, i put in my two weeks.
we went to dinner with our friend, forrest, last night. we went to our friend, meg's, work. she works at a japanese restaurant on fourth street (my favorite street). it was pretty good, but it was noodle soup. it was ok. the appetizers were great. we got spinach in peanut sauce (yummy) and tofu dumplings (good). it was nice to be out with friends. it seems rare that people we meet out here get sarcasm, but forrest and meg do, so we always have a good time with them. it was nice to be out at night. i know that sounds silly, but we have been eating in more. so a real dinner out with actual friends is nice. we appreciate it, you know.
how weird is it that in a matter of weeks, we will be home. part of this stint seems like we have been here forever. we spent so long not working. then we got jobs. we survived the chilly, rainy season and this weekend could get up into the high 80's. it stays sunny till 7:30, and before, when we got here, it was dark two hours earlier. i have been at my work for a month (just more) now. and dust has sold veggies for longer than that. so. that reminds me. i was going to upload a picture. upon further review of the "apron" it is not so visible, but i asked dust if i could show it, and he said yes. so i will. you have to look past the signs (the yellow laminated beasts) and you will see a little yellow apron at his waist.



sorry he is sideways. i will try to get my paparazzi skills better honed next time. but it is not bad for a first try. i hope this means that when we are short handed in the stand, dust is now qualified to come sell some produce to the folks who frequent our farm. let me know what you think. in two weeks and four days we will have been in california for a quarter of a year. that is no small hill of beans. it is no 128 hours that allison and jeremy are apart. and it is for sure no two months that rob and quinn will have been apart. but we, too, have felt alittle something missing from our lives for a quarter of a year. and it is you all. dorian, is speaking real words and sentences, sebastian has come up with crazy new songs that we have never heard, quinn and allison have done strip tease "workouts", kristin has a house we have never seen and a dog we've never met, penny has done so many things we don't know about...the list could go on and on. don't get me wrong, i love my time out here, and our new friends are fabulous. it is also really nice to see melissa and andy as often as we do. but we miss our vt homefries, too. jamie, james, kristina, we miss you guys too. and it has been far, far too long since we got to squeeze your necks. let's all work on that. (come visit). love to all.