One Day Left

Tomorrow afternoon I will leave Massachusetts. I am essentially finished with my packing, it's just a matter of putting everything I have gathered and organized into my second suitcase. Other than that everything else is handled. I cancelled the car insurance, cell phones, and closed a bank account. I am about to remove myself from the face of Plymouth, MA! Kind of scary even for an excited bride-to-be! Literally though, I am so ready to be with him! We are very used to Summers apart so this has not been an emotional separation at all. Rather, there is just a part of my heart that aches all the time. It is not usually sharp, unless I am having a hard time with something else and want his support, but it is always apparant. I can feel it when I eat my breakfast and when I go shopping and when I go to work and when I watch the news at night with my dad and when I go to bed. It is simply the ache of being away from one's very best and closest friend, love, supporter, partner, secret-keeper. It will be nice to be closer and ease that ache. I am, indeed, ready to be wrapped in his arms in the airport baggage claims!

I also have to update about the dress. I really do not know what to do with myself and that dress anymore. I woke up this morning and had lost two pounds since I last measured--two or so weeks ago. Needless to say, my dress is too big for me now. Of all the problems a bride faces, mysteriously shedding ten pounds in two months is not one I thought I would face. As a result I will be happily stuffing my face for the next three weeks and consuming as many calories as possible! Just kidding. Actually, I think we will take it to be altered again when I get to Germany. It is kind of crazy to try to attempt to gain eight pounds in three weeks. I would probably make myself sick and sluggish. I certainly do not need any slug!

I will write again tomorrow: My last day at my home as a single woman. Never ever again will I grace my home as just a daughter...soon I will be a daughter and a wife!