-Moved all belongings into UHaul
-Moved into a hotel
-Got married! Yayy!
-Drove car (with cats) and UHaul to Cedar Rapids to stay with husband’s parents
-Drove car (with cats) and UHaul to Kansas City, MO to stay with husband’s brother and sister-in-law
-Drove car (with cats) and UHaul to Little Rock, AR to stay in motel
-Drove car (with cats) and UHaul to Baton Rouge, LA
-Moved into apartment in Baton Rouge, LA
-Started job hunting, outfitted apartment, perfected jambalaya
-Finally got internet and cable installed after 2 no-show appointments
-Wait, what was that? There’s a hurricane headed this way?
-Watched the weather channel obsessively
-Neighbor arrived at door. “You guys might want to come take a look at your rear windshield.”
-Golf ball has destroyed rear windshield of car we purchased a month prior. So much for living next to a golf course. Cardboarded and garbage-bagged and taped to the best of our ability.
-Hurricane hit. Hard. The worst hurricane to hit Baton Rouge since Hurricane Betsy of 1965.
-100% power outage in Baton Rouge. Flooding. Trees down all over.
-2 days later. Still no power. 85 degrees in apartment. Eating cold baked beans from can.
-Forget this shit. We’re packing up the cats and driving to Austin!
-Currently: spending a few beautiful days in Austin with pal from grad school. 10% of power currently restored in Baton Rouge. 50% of power should be restored by Sunday. We are headed back to Baton Rouge Friday to have rear windshield replaced Saturday. Who knows whether our apartment will have power by then.
-In short: things have been . . . busy lately.
