So, we’re back in Camarillo, and mostly settled into our (somewhat smaller) apartment. It’s not really much smaller than our apartment in Longview, but we’re pretty sure that the majority of the size difference was in the bedroom closet (in Longview we had a big walk-in closet, here we have a little thing with two sliding doors that make it impossible to organize, as Mollie has pointed out to me). As a result, we’ve got some boxes still here and there, but by and large things are coming together nicely to make it a nice living space for us, at least for the time being.

In other news, things out here are just weird. So many things that I remember from growing up here, and now I’m trying to sort them into their places in my new life, which is really completely different from my life in Longview, and a far cry entirely from my life in Camarillo before I left for school. As I said in “Life and Times…” on Isqua Istari, it’s not bad, it’s just weird, and it’s a lot of change. Change is good, or so they say, but it can be trying (and tiring), and we’re kind of still waiting for something to actually feel “normal” again.I start work at Budlong & Associates on Monday… more on that when it happens. 😉

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This post is a little late, owing to the fact that when we got here yesterday, we were very busy and had some visitors. We are, however, home at our place in Camarillo, CA, busily unpacking our boxes and making the place a home, instead of a storage place with a lot of cardboard lying around. 🙂

We finished our trek yesterday just after 4 PM, PDT, and have been very grateful to my dad, my brother Matthew, Dave Twigg (friend and landlord), and Mollie’s family for their help with moving in yesterday, and especially to my dad and grandfather for driving out to Texas to help us pack and move.

More to come later!

Well, last time I was in Tucson, it was 115 degrees, 90 at night, and my Saturn would overheat on level ground trying to run the AC in the heat. This time, it’s mid-70s at night, and our Escort’s temperature gauge hasn’t crept up a single time on the entire trip, AC not withstanding.

We’re staying on the West end of town, after a long 15-hour day of driving. Getting two time changes in the space of six hours helped a lot with keeping things going, and the drive felt fairly quick and was thoroughly uneventful. Later this week, hopefully Mollie can give you her perspective on that. 🙂

Well, today has been a flurry of activity, starting with a quick breakfast at IHOP with my mom and Danny, followed by a few hours of intense packing and cleaning. Many thanks to my dad, his dad, and Mr. and Mrs. Scholl for helping us out with that! We left Longview around 2:30, after filling our 12 foot U-Haul trailer completely (though there is much room to spare in the borrowed pickup truck and the Escort is nearly empty) and grabbing lunch at Tele’s. We rolled into Abilene, TX around 8 PM CDT, and are staying the night at a brand-new Holiday Inn Express on the east side of town.

Welcome to the first pass at a Toad family blog. Since I actually set it all up on the road from Longview to Camarillo, we haven’t found ourselves a new theme yet, nor populated the categories or named it right or what-have-you. At any rate, this is where we hope to keep our friends far and wide appraised of our goings-on, so you can check back here for status on jobs, cars, fun trips to places, kids (whenever that happens), and so forth. Hope you enjoy it!