Eight weeks…

… until I’m all done with internship!  Hooray!

Paul was here this past weekend… and let us just say that I was extremely THANKFUL for his visit.  We had planned to go to Temecula Valley this past weekend to do some California wine tasting… and then this happened while we were traveling north on the I-15:

Good times!  A car about 30 feet up from us and one lane to the left kicked a sizable piece of wood that was on the freeway right into the passenger side of my front windshield.  Instead of sampling wines (don’t worry, we got that in on Saturday instead), I spent Friday with Paul in a shopping center mulling around waiting for my car to be fixed.  I honestly have to say that I have no idea what I would have done without Paul there.  Probably (aka DEFINTELY) I would have gone crazy/choked the person responsible for fixing my car.

We capped a pretty crappy day with an AMAZING meal at Jake’s del Mar, thus making it actually a pretty good day:

Oh, the pecan-crusted sea bass, rock shrimp couscous and FANTASTIC zinfandel.  I’m getting hungry again just thinking about it.  Anyway, Saturday wine tasting was quite rainy, but AMAZING and delicious:

Anyway, it really sucked to send him off today – I’m trying to focus instead on the knowledge that in less than two months (!!) it’ll be over and I’ll be home.  There’s just something about his presence – I feel less worried about the world, I hold less tension in my body, I stress less about the little things in life.  He truly is a calming presence, and I very much appreciate it.  🙂

Another weekend in the books, I guess.  The times they are a-changin’… I’m beginning to think about jobs… (that’s for another post though) and starting a new, professional life.  Got to get through this first though.  🙂  Night all!