March Madness

While March Madness is my favorite sporting event of the year, this blog post isn't entirely about that. More about the madness that has gone on during the month of March.
We moved back to Colorado about a week and a half ago, but it feels like it's been so much longer, but in a good way. Even last night when we were talking about it, I know Zach moved back for me. He knew how unhappy I was in Washington; how unhappy we both were. But if I hadn't been there, he would have managed to keep going, somehow, with the financial difficulties he/we were having. But he didn't want to do that to me, and that means a lot.
I think part of why it feels like we've been here a while is that we've both started working. It took me two months to start working in Washington. I transferred over to the Office Depot in Boulder so that I would have a job when I got out here. Zach has already started up work at the greenhouse and will also be working at JJ's on the weekends until the end of ski season.
We've also been so busy! It's been great. I am quite happy being back.
And now for basketball: Last night we went to the Pepsi Center and got to watch the afternoon/evening session of the first round of the NCAA tournament! It was so much fun! We watched Washington State beat Winthrop and Notre Dame beat George Mason. It was kind of weird, since we just left Washington State. Also, the high school Zach went to when he lived in Virginia was called George Mason. So there were some strange coincidences. It was also fun watching Notre Dame and Luke Harongody play, although I do think he is slightly overrated. Plus I didn't realize how well I knew Notre Dame's fight song until last night. I think the music is just one of those that is extremely recognizable.
Yesterday I went 13/16 in my brackets. My three losses were George Mason (I thought they would do it again this year), BYU and Arizona. All in the afternoon/evening session. So I made it through the morning unscathed. I don't think I can say that for today... So far I had Gonzaga winning and St. Mary's winning, both of whom lost. I had Tennessee going on, so I got that one.
The one nice thing is that even with my first round losses, my sweet sixteen and so on are all still in tact.
Hopefully the rest of the day will go the way of my bracket :)
I work this afternoon and tomorrow, and Zach will be up in Copper all weekend working. I don't really like him being gone all weekend, because this is a big, lonely house with just me and the puppies, but I know it's only for a couple weekends--the ski season is almost over. And I still managed to get up to the mountains since we moved back to Colorado. It was a very difficult day, first day out all season, and powder nonetheless. But it was nice and worth it to get to the mountains. I still need to get a pair of boots that fit-my old boots are too small and my new boots are so big I can't even turn in them, my foot pops out! Those need to get sold...

I am so exhausted and there is still much work to be done. Also my key for "b" is sticky. Don't know why.

We leave tomorrow. We are leaving Washington for good. Or at least for now.

This has been a fun and crazy week this week, trying to get everything in one last time and getting prepared for the move.

Wednesday we went up to Seattle. The weather couldn't have been more gorgeous. We went up the Space Needle around sunset. We didn't plan on it, it just happened. But it was one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a while--we could see forever!

Thursday we spent most of the day packing. I really don't remember what else happened on Thursday. Yesterday we picked up the truck and loaded that--boy am I sore! We still have some stuff left to do. Today was my last day of work. It was super busy and this is the first time I've had to sit down all day...of course I should be finishing up the whole moving thing, instead of sitting here writing this, but I am. Of course sitting is making me realize just how tired I really am...

Last night we also went up to Little Creek casino, where Zach has one of those member cards. It turns out he'd racked up a fair amount of points and we got to eat dinner there for free. And by dinner, of course I mean the seafood buffet. Gotta get all the seafood in before we're landlocked again, right? It wasn't the greatest, but it was still good getting out of the house and away from this whole mess.

So I'm tired, sore, and still have a lot of work ahead of me. But I'm not complaining. Because I know that at the end of all of this we will end up back in Colorado, at our new house. And that makes it all worthwhile.