This is feeling more and more real every time I say it.

[azurelunatic]

California. I'm planning to move to California. By the end of December.

Phoenix was always temporary. Now that I have come to the conclusion that what my job is asking of me is something that I cannot maintain and still be healthy in mind and body, and since I'll be moving anyway -- it's time.

There are many people and things that I will miss, and no mistake. Not the least of these is my best friend. I have already sent him an e-mail and also discussed in person. I will miss him so, so badly, but I have known for some years now that California is home. The land tells me so.

I have told my best friend. I cried on marta's virtual shoulder. I have told our old college buddy Dawn. I have told my aunts, my mom, and my sister. I have told those in IRC who were there when I told them. I am plotting with lacey. Now I am telling you.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/chas_/]

You have to go where you belong.

Best of luck!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

[luminairex.livejournal.com]

Le sad. Dinner must happen :)

[azurelunatic]

Dinner is planned for Thursday, and I have a hivereminder to sting me weekly to arrange dinner.

[sleevewornheart.livejournal.com]

Good for you for doing what needs to be done, for you.

[azurelunatic]

:)

And incidentally this will likely mean that we are within occasional weekend-something distance.

[sleevewornheart.livejournal.com]

Which is all kinds of awesome.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Plotting with Lacey? Inquiring minds want to know.

And once again yay yay yay!

[azurelunatic]

Well, she's been planning to make her escape for a while, just unsure when.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Aha. Yes.

Someday I'll make my exodus, too. Looking forward to it.

[azurelunatic]

Where are you going, when you go?

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Wherever I can find jobbiness (hopefully the Bay), but definitely after May 09. Graduating and such as.

[azurelunatic]

Hooray for jobbiness. Hooray for graduating. I do not have an academic frame of mind.

[pne.livejournal.com]

All the best in your endeavours, then!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

[emptybackpack.livejournal.com]

-hugs- Moving on and up! Best of luck. ♥

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

And it's very bizarre to meet people and then announce that you're leaving. I had fun over dinner, and we may wind up running into each other before I leave.

[emptybackpack.livejournal.com]

♥ I hope so! I'd like to make it to a Phoenix NaNoWriMo meetup at some point, at any rate.

[rhea-windrider.livejournal.com]

Azure mentioned wanting to bring you to a writer's group meeting. You are more than welcome to come on by during Nano if you would like. If you need directions, just let us know

[calligrafiti.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your move. Do you know people in CA? And have you decided which part you're moving to? There are so many lovely parts of that state, one could be spoiled for choice.

[azurelunatic]

I know plenty of people, not the least of whom are two aunts and the associated uncles, an uncle and the associated aunt, the offspring of all of the same, and five LJ-friends at a quick count (a thorough count would take longer), one of whom overlaps with the family.

I'm plotting SF at this point.

[pauamma]

Yay for Fornicalia? :-)

[azurelunatic]

Yep!

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

Good luck on your move. I do hope the relocation goes smoothly for you.

[azurelunatic]

I hope so too. And I have contingency plans as well.

[jennifer.livejournal.com]

You have to follow your heart. Good luck. ♥

[azurelunatic]

Heh. Though in this case that may be a little difficult as the other half of my heart is sitting in Mesa, watching anime with a surly sort of expression.

[cawingcrow.livejournal.com]

Hope it goes well (though that kind of makes our goal of getting up there to see you when visiting my mother in Tucson sometime in those last two weeks of December highly unlikely *blah*).

[azurelunatic]

I will keep you guys informed about what's up closer to the date.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I hope your move goes as painlessly as possible.

[azurelunatic]

Thank you!

[marcelle42.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you!

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, how exciting! I hope the move goes smoothly when you do it! :D

[azurelunatic]

It is! I hope so too.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Any idea where in California you'll end up?

[azurelunatic]

Thank you!

Down by the Bay, where the watermelons grow, back to my home, oh there I go...

[sraun]

Good luck!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you!

I may not be able to make effective use of the daylight-savings-time free alarm clock after all, heh. :)

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

California here I come! Right back where I started from!


Or not. But I had to sing it for you to wish you luck on this next part of your journey.

What part of CA are you considering? I fly there at least once a year to visit friends in the Bay area and this could mean an easier time of meeting IRL. :-)

[azurelunatic]

Bay area primarily, as that's the bit that made me nearly cry when flying into based on the hills (although when I was flying in, I was half-dead of a very bad cold and was convinced that it was Mr. Spock nearly crying) but LA is a possibility too.

Because we all know that the best place for Alaskans to meet is anywhere but!

[thette.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you!

[rhea-windrider.livejournal.com]

Wow! Did not see that one coming but I hope you will be happy. Will you happen to be planning to continue being part of writer's group via web and yahoo site?

[azurelunatic]

It's been coming since 2005, more or less, just very quietly. And yes, I'll be remotely there, although my activity levels of anything that isn't in this journal right here may be spotty.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the move.

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.