Today, I’m waiting for a truck to show up. It is pickup day for me. PODS is sending a truck to pickup the POD that I’ve had sitting in my driveway for most of the last year. A lot has happened since I decided to move. Yoon is back in Korea, and we’ve broken off our engagement. I miss her and I wish her well. I’ve finally started writing the book about My Life with Gee. My sister-in-law is about to get married. Gee’s parents have moved out of the house she grew up in, into a smaller condo. My friend, Megan has merged her law firm with another, and her former partner has left the company.
The whole moving process has been a difficult one. As I said previously, when I originally bought this place, I had planned on raising a family here. Now, I am leaving the first real home I’ve ever had. This weekend, I’m heading up to New England, to return to where I grew up. I hadn’t originally thought that it would be as difficult or as that it would take as long as it has taken. I’ve been sidelined by illness several times in the past year, and had to delay things because of it.
It will be strange, not being in Virginia anymore… I’ve gotten very accustomed to the way things are here in Northern Virginia. I’m not quite sure as to exactly what I’ll be doing up in Boston yet. Part of the reason I’m moving back is to help my father with his business, and to help my brother-in-law with his as well. The things I’ll miss most about here are many: having good Korean restaurants and stores nearby, my friends in Northern Virginia, Maryland and DC, being able to go to the cemetery when I miss Gee, driving on the Beltway, and going to the Smithsonian.
Even more strange, will be being back in New England. I haven’t lived there in almost 12 years. Most of my recent memories of New England have Yoon in them, and she was one of the major reasons for me to move back. It will be strange not seeing her there—I miss her.
In many ways, I’ll be very unsettled when I first get to Boston. I’m still very much Adrift at Sea when it comes to trying to figure out who I am without Gee, or what I am supposed to be doing since she has been gone. One of my priorities in when I get settled is to get Gee’s foundation off the ground. I’ve decided to kick start it with some of the money I’m getting from selling our home. While it won’t be as much as I’d like—it will be a start.
At least updating my blog will be much easier, since I’ll be on broadband once again. Being on dialup has been very difficult.
It will also be good to see Shortie again… I’ve missed having him around. He may be a bit neurotic, but he is the dog that Yoon picked out, and that Yoon and I adopted…he’s a good little dog though… funny that, never really liked little dogs before I met Shortie.