Countdown-5 days

I leave in 5 days! It is Saturday, and I leave on Wednesday morning. This trip has been a long time in the planning. I think Jeff(my boyfriend) and I made the plans in early April. I am not a long term planner. It's a stretch for me to commit to plans a week in advance, much less three months, so the past three months has felt like an eternity.

Right now my mother is here straightening my house like a whirling dirvish, getting everything prepared for the house/dog sitter who moved in on Tuesday. I could do these things, but she enjoys it so much that I hate to deprive her of that joy. Plus, I hate doing it.