On My Way to Senegal! By way of my CPA

Today  I dropped my nice Jazlyn off at the Greyhound station. She spent the weekend helping me arrange my home for a party I am planning to rid myself of excess in preparation for departure. She is quite an artist....I spent the rest of the morning signing the papers on my refinance, meeting with my homeowners insurance salesman who then sent me over to see my favorite CPA to talk about the implications of renting my home for 27 months.  Always  handled all my stuff without a CPA,  but life is getting complicated when you own a home and want to go to Senegal for a few years. 

Had my BFF over for her belated birthday dinner tonight. We both talked bout all the stuff  going on in our lives. It is going to be hard to not be able to see or talk to her anytime I want. Planning a trip with her to San Diego in January, just the two of us for some quality time away from the homeland stuff.

Between all this and my job, I've been planning a Pieces of Peace Corps weekend where I have invited friends over to help me out with my pet fund by buying someof my nifty stuff that I wouldn't be getting rid of if I were staying,but won't need for awhile. Someone else might as well enjoy it.  I think it is criminal to store our "extra stuff" in boxes when so many have so little. 

Heading to Sacramento to see a few friends who I am unlikely to see again for a couple of years. As i get closer to my departure date and this gets more (sur)real, it will also get more hard(er). Since I work with some older folk, and have older parents (and pets) of my own, i wonder sometimes who will still be here when I get  back. then again, there are no guarantees for us at any age, so can't overly focus on that one.

Am scheduling a good bye party with my friends band, Trifecta, on February 11th.  I probably should be an event planner, rather than an PCV, for all the event planning I am doing lately. Perhaps this skill will come in handy in Senegal too. 

Good thing I like being busy.  Probably will need to learn how to just be more. Probably will.