T minus One Week!

Hello fellow followers and mom!

First of all, this blog has nothing to do with the bugs in Australia. Bugs are icky, and the size of my torso there. In this case, Bugs/Bugsy refers to my nickname my family has for me. Not a clue how I received it, but it makes for a killer blog name.

As most, if not all, of you know by now, I only have one week left!!! Now, we'll take this in two different directions.

Direction One:
I'M SO DANG EXCITED!! Well, I'm freaking out of course. I mean who wouldn't be?? However, I'm freaking out in the best way possible. I wish I could describe the feelings and emotions this all brings me, but that is nearly impossible to do. As much as I love 'Merica, I am ready to expand my horizons.

I've started packing (kind of, even though mom has asked me like 5 times to "please start packing". Sweet woman I tell ya. I love her), I've made a list of the snacks I want to take on the plane, packed my coloring book Abigail made me, also my bottle opener penguin (compliments of the beautiful Alayna Chlad), and started my list of adventures I will embark on while gone for four months! Now I just wish my suitcase would finish packing itself so I could get the heck out of here already!

Direction Two:

*WARNING! About to get sentimental*

Pretty up and down emotion wise. While I'M SO DANG EXCITED!!, I'm also decently sad. I don't want to leave my family and friends for four months. I really don't. I have the greatest support system with the mix of them. I could not have better people in my life. I am truly blessed with the biggest, closest, funniest, and loving family anyone could ask for. Each one of them is trying their hardest to keep me home, and I can't blame them, I'm pretty amazing to be able to fit in with all of them! Just kidding. But, I do love all of them, right down to little miss sassy/sissy pants Claire Bear.

My friends, that's a whole other story! They are all so exciting, heart warming, and beautiful souls. I try to surround myself with the best people possible, and I've definitely succeeded in doing that! I'm going to miss my house mates for sure. They are four of the greatest girls I've ever had the honor of meeting. I cannot wait to live with them in January. I would name everyone off that I'm going to miss, but it'll probably just be easier to say I'm going to miss BW!! But I know as soon as I return, everyone will hear my Australian stories a million times, get sick of me, and my pictures, and life will continue the way it always has.

So I have four months to live the life I've always wanted before returning to my still pretty amazing reality. And in almost exactly a week, I will be running my little hiney through Dallas Airport catching the flight to Brisbane, Australia, where it will all begin. Also where I will be arriving at 5:00 A.M. Lord help me that's early in Australian time (3:00 P.M. our time; not that bad). I hope everyone can keep up on my blog, heck I hope I can keep up on my blog! Enjoy the next four months and I'll see you mates soon enough.

Peace and Love,
Bugs