So Exciting (to me)

Tonight has been so exciting in its conversation and revelations and plane ticket reservations....

I just booked a flight to go to Boston in 3 weeks to visit my twin sister(!). I snagged a great deal and promptly called my sister to let her know I booked the flight and discuss plans and whatnot. Before I knew it, we'd been on the phone for over an hour. Just as I'm ending the call, I start chatting with Jordan. Jordan, after much talk and debate, has moved back to Georgia and gotten a new job and he's not very far away from me up I85.... I told him it was nice but a little strange to be able to make plans with him to do something this weekend. It sounded a little strange to him, I'm sure, to hear me say (or rather, read my typing of that) but I can explain. He's lived in Columbia, SC the last few years and wasn't so much possible. I got to know him better in Alaska and we chat online and such but I can't make plans that don't involve a good deal of driving. Not anymore! It hasn't sunk in yet, I don't think. And Beth is moving back this week, possibly to stay with me. And for most people, I would find that annoying but instead I'm elated that she might stay with me for a bit. And Dave H. just moved back to Atlanta (from...um, Athens?) and we're trying to make plans to get dinner next week.

I feel so spoiled. All these good things. And Chris S. and I making plans to play racquetball soon and hang out and how wonderful that he's getting married and I get to see it and be here. And, of all things, I just discovered that I was mistaken in thinking that Brandi Carlile performing with the Louisville Symphony was the same weekend as my Boston trip. It's not, it's the weekend after. I could still go! I'm elated about this. I have to go, even though it seems I shouldn't spend any more money but this makes me so happy.... That's when it all comes back to the idea of supply. We don't waste supply; but we're not constrained by it either.

And it seems doubly magnified, this sense of supply, with all these good things compounding on one another in my life. I'm making headway in my pursuit of a clean and organized apartment. I'm waking up earlier in the morning just to wake up earlier and get more done. I'm eating healthier and working towards being nicer to the environment and that's going well.

And I find myself just more and more grateful for the people in my life. I just have met and have known and know so many extraordinary people who come and go out of my life but I am truly better for it. And to have had so much time these last few months with Toby and getting to talk to her on the phone.

And making friends with other people's friends. There has been a long stretch where I shied away from new people -- it's nice to see me gaining, well, courage, I suppose. I'm not so sure what I was afraid of but I feel lighter without the fear of something I couldn't even name.

I'm rambling, I know. I'm happy. I'll have to keep working on praying about it because it would be just about perfect if I can also slip in a trip to DC in March to visit Lyndsey and hear Elizabeth Gilbert talk....