Distraction

As much as I said I love continuing coverage of anything, the exception is election coverage.  I really don't want to hear ANYTHING about how this person has one more vote than the other guy (no, wait! now the other guy has two more votes...).  I want to hear the final results when they are really FINAL.  To that end, I am distracting myself with old movies (Fred and Ginger, William Powell and Myra Loy, Hope and Crosby and finishing with a continual loop of Victor/Victoria).  Nothing lifts my mood like a movie marathon!
Paul's mood has improved a million-fold.  Now that he is over his last packet for his last semester of his Master's he is in a much better mood.  In another month he'll be done for good and be able to conquer the world!  He's finally able to remember all the things we talked about last spring (Southern California being the big one) and he's feeling positive about the future (knock wood).  No longer does he think he needs to be a DSHS case manager living in his car in Kirkland (hallelujah!).  He's back to the SoCal plan.  No more Olympia.  Onto bigger and better things!!  And, now that he's listening to me again, he is hearing what I had been saying all along about how everything is going to be fine and no need to panic (finally!).  Home is less of a wreck and a much calmer place to be (thank heavens!).
It is dark and gloomy in Olympia.  Fog this morning gave way to big black clouds and wind to be followed later by a cold rain and cooler temps (Below freezing later this week?! Eek!).  Paul's sister called yesterday to say it was 90 degrees in Huntington Beach (and then she sent a photo of the thermometer).  I spent a large part of today thinking about warm, beach weather.  Ahhhhh....
Tomorrow I head up to Ballard to house-sit for my friends who have gone off to Germany for the month.  When I am back in Olympia it will be time to pack up and get out!!  (Anthems of joy!)  I cannot wait to be free of "stuff" and be heading south down I-5 toward a sunnier future!