Roller Coaster

My post title is actually referring to the "emotional" kind ... lately I've been up and down!! But my friend Kim is visiting me for Labor Day weekend, so I am very excited for that. I'm picking her up in L.A. and then we'll probably hit Hollywood Boulevard and/or Beverly Hills and/or Third Street Promenade. Depends on traffic I suppose, and how long we want to stay in L.A. Then we'll head back to Santa Maria for the weekend, hit the beach and who knows what else. It'll be a quick trip, but I'm glad she's able to come! Then it's only a matter of a few weeks before I'm back "home." I'm actually listening to a country song right now on I-Tunes called "You can't go home again (Flies on the butter)" ... it's very nestalgic and it makes me think of my dad. We're going to be packing up our Penske truck on the 1-year anniversay of his death. It's weird to think that last year at this time we were just arriving in California and my dad was still alive. So much has changed since then. Sometimes I feel like a different person than I was back then, but I know things will get back to semi-normal when I'm back in Wisconsin. I have a lot of things on my mind right now, I feel like I'm always preoccupied with something. It's unsettling. I pray it passes.