The population of Sacramento County is: 1,352,445.
The land area of Sacramento County is: 966.
Persons per square mile: 1,267.

In a county as big as Sacramento it would be nearly impossible to run into someone with whom you have not had contact with in over a year, by accident. All stars would have to align for this to occur. Today was the day.

I knew it would happen eventually. It has come close to happening before. I mean with a roommate of one of my friends including him on her myspace friend list and all. But I just really wasn’t expecting it to happen today.

I was happily driving along on a stretch of freeway, not only at a time when I normally don’t drive it, but also a section I tend to avoid. I look in my rearview mirror and see a motorcycle similar to my ex’s. Low and behold, he pulls up next to me and it is him. My heart starts racing and I start to panic, it was like a shot of adrenaline (think Pulp Fiction). I am hoping that he turns off. He doesn’t. He stays either a little ahead of me or a little behind me for at least a good 6 miles. Until the exit I know he is going to take comes up (where he goes to school)……and as chance would have it, it was my exit too. So here we are sitting at a red light next to each other, knowing who were are, yet not saying anything.

I turn to my destination and he continues onto his, without a word. This is pretty much how the relationship ended.

On a separate, but related note, I really should play the lottery today. (One in a million, right?)

I have been talking non-stop about how much soap I have been making. I thought I would just post some pictures of the products. I think this weekend I will get a little bit of crafting done since Winemonkey is fairly immobile because of his knee. It is good, because I have a lot of ideas and the more supplies I use and sell now means less supplies I will have to move at the end of March.

So without further ado, here are the current items:

Well, I am getting ready to see if I can squeeze some more information out of my data. Enough for a third paper and a third chapter to my dissertation. I am using my positive thinking on this one. I have too much momentum going right now for it not to work out. Winemonkey and I have been talking about where we are going to look for a place. I am calling around to get prices for movers. We actually called about a place about a quarter of a mile away from his current home.

Yeah. Too much momentum. You hear that grad school. I am getting out.

p.s. I am looking for a new host company. It has been over seven months and my spell checker and page adding issues have not been resolved. Anyone particularly pleased with their service?

Really - That only three people were interested in free homemade soap! And one of them? She is my mother!

But since I am sending it out today, with the acception of the trade offer, the free soap extravaganza is closed. If you are interested in soap, please visit my Etsy store. I am updating it regularly and will have individual bars reposted over the rest of the week. I also hope to be adding more items.

Thanks.

And remember, any money I make is going towards the move. Which is going to happen whether or not I get out of this crazy dream called grad school.