Four days and counting...

I'm oddly not that much affected by the fact that in four days we find out about the match.  I'm not nervous, I am excited... but not as much as I should be.  It's probably because I am so confident that Mike will at the very least match, and we seriously could just as easily wind up in TX as DC,  that my deep subconscious isn't even bothering with thinking about it.  

Thinking about moving to any of the places on the list seems surreal, like I can't get idea in my head that we will actually move somewhere that is not here.  But it was the same way before we moved to Cleveland.  It will be a strange thing to wrap my mind around an actual specific location after we find out.  I mean, I could wind up living for a year in Georgia.  Or Hawaii. That would be weird.  I think those are the two least likely places, but still.  They are still not outside the realm of possibility.  There is even a possibility that we could spend a year back in the Northwest, which would be so awesome I can't even imagine it. Of course it would also suck, because then we'd just have to leave after a year of being so close to our parents.  

If we end up in Texas, that would be awesome.  Warm weather, low cost of living, relative proximity to Jaclyn & Lee... it would be fantastic.  But DC would also be cool.  We could still be close to Alex & Laurie, and especially Hal & Julie, there is a lot of history and wonderful things to experience there, and it would be a much easier move to make.  

With all the options before us, I find solace in this one fact:  Not one of them can boast worse winters than what we currently experience. DC can be bad, but Cleveland is worse.  And from where I'm sitting, that makes any option acceptable!  

That being said, when it comes down to it... I really don't want to leave!  I will be very sad the day we leave Cleveland.  And I am certainly not excited about having to sit around for 6 months waiting for that day to arrive.  That is a long time to plan for/dread something!