ChaChaChaCha Changes....

               Its been a while since Ive had the time to write, thank god i have a breather atm.  actually not really a breather because my professor should be in to teach class soon, but for the next 20 minutes despite the 300 people about to be sitting around me I feel as if I can relax.  What a month December was! University of Maryland is now where I consider myself a student and the transition has gone smoothly- well almost.  I cried, when I left QU, I will miss many of the amazing people I met but this first week at UMD has taught me that change is good.  However the first step to getting back to MD was to haul all of my shit the 6 hours down 95 I needed to travel.  Let me mention- I have a Chrysler Seabring; which could be bigger sometimes, like when im trying to move 30 bales of hay, hauling 3 horses worth of tack to another barn- or in this case moving all of my worldly possessions back to Maryland.  Lets just Say- it was an interesting trip- it took me 2 days to pack most everything into my car- I was quite pleased with myself when I had completed the task- but then I turned around and there it was- my double papasan...  I loved that chair, and often slept in it, but it was about the size of the interior of my car.  I had friends offering to keep it for me but, it couldn't be left behind- the day I bought it off of craigslist for $90 was one of the happiest days of my fall semester.  No, it would definitely  have to come with me..
               It took 4 limbs- lots of leverage, and even greater willpower to get the mattress into the back of my car-  when the backdoor closed and didn't pop back open on me I let out a cry of joy to turn around and find that I had gathered a crowd of about 5 strangers not offering help but probably rather amused with me.  This mattress was the final step to creating the wall that now existed of my backseat and rear window- I certainly wouldn't be using my rear- view mirror during the trip. 

               With that task out of the way- there was the frame to deal with- I will summarize this process with one statement- I am the goddess of tie downs.  When Taekwondude walked up the first thing that came to mind seemed to summarize the vehicle best....

"You could play Mario Kart in that thing..."

                Indeed I probably could have.  Now with my faithful driving companion ( A freshman who also lived in MD) at my side I headed home- hoping not to cause myself too much of a headache as the tie down closure above my head sometimes smacked me if the road was too bumpy.  When we got to the Jersey Turnpike we were enamored for about 10 minutes with the fact that the bamboo on top of the car made a humming noise- the amusement went away as soon as we discovered that the radio would not cover up this noise... 6 hours later neither of us could hear ourselves think.

                But we were in Maryland with the promise of 6 weeks without entering a classroom or lecture hall, which made up for just about everything.