The very short version

-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.