o.O

i slept in the backyard last night. in my tent. and in my 20* bag in 60* weather. it was unzipped, though. swayze slept out there with me on her little ridgerest pad. i figured out that i need a better sleeping pad. i don't have a very good one right now, anyways. the stars were awesome. i watched a lot of csi-type showed before i went outside. it was probably a mistake. i had weird dreams in the middle of the night and dreamed that i got scared enough to go inside, but i ran through a huuuuge spiderweb on my back inside to the house. it was all a dream, though. weird. the neighbor's dog kept barking last night. all in all, i slept well, i just need a better pad. i wish i were on the trail. =/ if i don't sell my truck soon, this will all have to wait until next year. i overdrew my account the other day. i have money in savings that covered the overdrafts, but now i'm eating into my AT savings. i get paid tomorrow, but i still need to sell my truck. sigh.

anybody wanna buy a truck? =)

oh my dear lordt. i went to bristol wednesday night and came back last night and had an absolute amazing time. i stayed with my friend joshua and had lunch with awesome friends at awesome places that i really miss dining at. i dropped jolie off with nick. =/ it's kind of weird not having a second dog. i let swayze sleep in the bed with me last night. 

joshua left for his thru-hike today. i don't wish i was going with him, necessarily. hyoh kind of thing, ya know? but i'm extremely jealous that my dream isn't as within reach as i thought it was. i have yet to find a buyer for the truck. the last guy even started paperwork at his bank on the truck, but some other truck's paperwork finalized before mine did. le sigh. 

joshua's pack is 33 lbs. i picked it up, and that's extremely heavy! the last big purchase i need to make is a sleeping bag. i'm not sure how much my pack will end up weighing. oh, and i need to buy swayze's stuff, too. like her pack and a blanket/coat for her. 

i got my tent in last friday!! =D it's basically amazing. it's huge and i can set it up in less than five minutes (if i don't stake it out). i'm sure if i counted staking it out and whatnot, it'd be more, but anyways. swayze and i fit in it just fine! 

i wish i were headed to springer right now. i hear the mountains calling, calling. 

i'd really like to sleep in the backyard, please...

so my tent has yet to come in! :( maybe tomorrow will be my lucky day and i'll get to sleep in the backyard tomorrow night. ew... or maybe not. i forget i have to be at work at 530 saturday morning. pfft. i picked up nikole's boyfriend's jeep today. this is so crazy and amazes me so much that this is all really coming together for me. i really thank God for that everyday. it's crazy to me that i'm gonna hike the appalachian trail. with my dog. i'm almost apprehensive/nervous about it... but not so much in the "i can't do this" way, but moreso in the "am i really ready for this? people prepare for this for years and i don't even have my sleeping bag" way. i still don't have adequate clothing or any stuff sacks or a water purification system or a blanket or pack for swayze or... hell... what all else do i need? i don't even know. i'm not even sure what i'm gonna do with my cell phone. i reckon i could just turn it off. so many thoughts all floating through my head... i wish i could catch them and stick them all together and organize them like a pearltree.

shelterrr

i bought my tent tonight!! =D i'm so excited! i got an msr hubba hubba AND its footprint for $225 shipped from rei. a guy on BPL replied to my post on the used gear forums and told me that i could get last year's hh on clearance for $170. i called the store in asheville and they didn't have any in stock. i had to call all the way out to california to find a store that had the clearance tent in stock, but i should have it here in the next week! =)

so i've got two out of the big three: pack and shelter. now i just need a bag. =) i'm heavily leaning towards the campmor down 20+ bag, but we'll see how everything goes here in the next little bit. perhaps i can buy a better quality used bag for about the same price. 

if i were my dog, i'd have an excitement pee right now.