8/16: Today I called in for a "sick" day. I had a headache all day yesterday and had bad neck and shoulder knots so I took a muscle relaxant before bed. Slept pretty well considering as of late I've only been getting 2-4 hours a night. I woke up this morning with a mini migraine. Mini, as in I've had worse, but still bad enough to be debilitating. So at 8 am, I got up to take some ibuprofen and then went back to sleep till about a quarter to noon. By then I could function enough to let the dog out and make some coffee and breakfast, followed by lunch. In my world waking up late is no excuse to miss a meal! I put off my errands till tomorrow. Instead, I watched a few movies with some packing in between. Had to take another break during the packing since I started getting light headed so I napped for a little less than an hour and took more ibuprofen since my head was still hurting some. So far, I got my work clothes mostly packed (there are some still left to launder before packing), my dresses and skirts, and jackets. I've set enough in the donation bin to fill more than 1 garbage bag, but I definitely think I can do better. Gonna work on putting more in the donation bucket tonight.

I did find a new blog site that I think I am going to switch to for the actual trip. it lets you put pics where you want them easily and put captions and descriptions to them, so stay tuned for the link once I start my trip.