Phew!

The whirlwind of changes has officially descended on upon our short branch of the McCullough family; though we're beginning to see the eye of the storm. Where to begin!?

First, I'll apologize. I'm currently working on pirated internet and connection is 'poor' at best, so I'm not able to upload pictures (Oooo, I'm such a bad kid!!).

This past Monday, on Memorial Day, John graduated from Yale. It was awesome, and I'm so proud I don't really know how to describe it. I cried like a little girl! (Twice!) It by no means was the easiest 3 years of my life; though it wasn't as bad as I was warned it would be by the people I met when I first got here. He worked really hard for this, and it shows. John was honored with the Edward C. Cole Memorial Award, voted on by his fellow students; and the 8 members of his class were all recipients of the Pierre Andre Salim Memorial Award in memory of our friend who passed away in Oct 2007. I PROMISE that later this week there'll be a post dedicated to graduation (with pictures).

There was little time to relax and celebrate, though, because John had a thesis to finish and we had to MOVE! That's right - is our copious free time this week we had to pack the rest of our apartment, clean like fiends, and rally the troops to carry our stuff.

But first: my bowling team won the league championships! Yippie (I know...big deal!). So I HAD to take time off from packing and working and celebrating to go the the big fancy award ceremony (not really) and get my championship patch!?! PATCH!? Where the little trophy with the man on it? Whatever - no time to complain, I have a move to do!

Back to our regularly schedule hectic life. Yesterday morning we started around 9 and had a great group of friends show up. It was warm and sunny and couldn't have been a better day for a move - John even described yesterday as "fun". We had plenty of time, and had the truck back by 2!

So here's the plan: we're moving to NYC in 2 months, so we're not unpacking most of our stuff here; and I also have 2 friends storing random stuff at the beach house as well - which means everyone was worried that we wouldn't all fit. Well, good new. Everything fit and we only have 5 or 6 boxes left to unpack and we're DONE until August.

PHEW!

It's been a crazy week. Wrap into that a little cold and a touch of heat stroke yesterday and I feel like I just won a prize fight; but the point is we WON the fight. The beach house is AWESOME (though Sammy and Stella might disagree with me at the moment). The kitchen is huge, the living room big enough for a double twister game (almost), and the best part? Long Island Sound is less than 1/2 a block away! When I get out of my car I smell salt water. I went down to the beach for a walk today and there was no one else there. :D

John leaves in 2 weeks for the summer; but we're going to enjoy our time here together while we can... and then in a few weeks the storm picks up again when we start looking for our place in NYC! For now, a little break from the crazy to enjoy the sea gulls and having a kitchen big enough to cook in.