New Move FAQ Question

At six weeks to go till the move, I am getting another question to add to the FAQ:

Q: Are you all packed yet?
A: Well, no. Would you be if you had a month to go and you still had to use most of your everyday stuff? A bit of my non-essentials are. I have a lot of stuff that if it's not packed, it's going to be junked. That's accounting for at least half of what's in my apartment. I admit, however, that packing is the area in which I tend to procrastinate the most. I still have to decide exactly what is going to be pre-shipped.

The good news is that I sold the furniture items that I needed to sell.

Day Job to Dream Job

Well, that's what I am hoping for at some point when I move to Nashville (move now six weeks and counting, by the way). But the reason for the title is: if you are a musician who wants to do music full time, or if you are someone hoping to make a living doing something you love, I'd like to invite you to listen to my latest episode of "Wendy V's Ponder Cast". I have an interview with my dear friend Michael Loonan, who is doing just that, working from home doing music full time.

I think this will help and inspire a lot of people. He makes a couple of key points in the interview:
- Being encouraged
- Taking a leap of faith

Go here to listen to episode 11:
http://www.cyberears.com/index.php/Show/audio/163

Sick of cold

At this point, I've had it up to here with cold. Two kinds.

One, my head cold I've had for nearly a week. This one nearly ranks up there with the one I had some years ago which kept me in bed for three days. I actually did take a sick day from work with this one--only after I had worked sick the day before because I had to...I was "it" because my other co-worker was out. But I am getting tired of blowing my nose and not going anywhere without a tissue box.

Two, this frigid cold we are having. Yeah, I know, MN is famous for it but even some die-hards admit two weeks is too long. It is so cold in the early morning it hurts. I can't keep my face warm out waiting for the bus without coming up for air every 10 seconds because scarves are smothering. And as long as it's -0 in the morning, I gotta put the thermals on. It will be this way for another week, I hear. Suffice it to say this is at the top of my "things I won't miss about Minnesota" list.

That's it. Thanks for letting me vent.