Getting Ready, Getting Set, Let's Do It!

For the past few weeks I have been trying to mentally prepare myself for tomorrow, when My dad, Kyle's Dad, Kyle and I will descend, along with the millions of others, onto Washington D.C. for the Inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama.

I am so hype right now!!!

What started out as a wish for me is actually becoming reality. I few months back I told everyone I knew that I was going to be in D.C on January 20th. I really had no idea how it was going to happen, but I knew that I was going to be there. Along the way we had a few setbacks, one of the people we were carpooling with changed their plans and went down earlier than we could afford to, D.C. decided to close the bridges at 2:00 am (which screwed up our timing) and Amtrak fares were through the roof... I started to loose hope... I started to think up ways to get there, Craigslist maybe (no, I'd probably end up on a billboard with a pewny $5,000 award), Walk It?? maybe.. I was desperate.

Then, just when I had almost given up on the whole D.C. idea I received a text from my best friend, she asked me if I wanted to go to D.C. At first I didn't even respond to it, because anyone who knew me knew that I WANTED TO GO TO D.C. What kind of stupid question was this?? was it a joke?? We texted each other back and forth for about 20 minutes and then I called her, and sho' nuff my girl was serious. Her Brother in -law chartered a bus (way back in November) and had 4 tickets left. I threw down my already half-broken phone and screamed "WE'RE GOING TO WASHINGTON BABY" and almost broke down in tears.

For me, this trip symbolizes alot of things. It in a sense is a lesson in faith, telling me to keep on keeping on and God will surely provide a way. Terry and I joke about being each other's angels because we almost always text or e-mail one another something that lifts us up just when we need it... with out even knowing it. We can go for months without talking to or seeing each other but we always know when one of us is in need. Is amazing.. God is awesome!

It's also a symbol that its my time. It's my time to stop limiting what I can do just because of the obstacles that may be in my way. It's time to stand up, and be accountable and make things happen rather than let them happen.

So as I sit here at work (waiting for the noise to begin) I am getting ready, I am getting set, and I am so ready to do this...