Well, the goats and the chickens are gone. We loaded up Samantha and Baby, and even more recently the lady came for the hens. Hm.

Good grief. Hana no Kimi is completed, with over one hundred chapters, but OneManga only has 30. Now I'm reading Beauty is the Beast on Mangavolume, which has hundreds of mangas up, but is pretty disorganized.

Hanazakari no Kimitachie, of you in Full Blossom, commonly known as Hana no Kimi. It's much better than Power!!, maybe 'cause for the most part it's more serious. I mean, there is this guy who has a crush on Mizuki, but doesn't know her secret. He's comic relief. Since she's a student in an ALL BOYS school, he agonizes a lot. Heh. The hero is Izumi Sano, a high jumper who Mizuki has had a crush on for years. When she started high school, she transferred from America to his school in Japan so she could see him jump with her own eyes. =D Now.....well, duh. Narrative causality. But she still doesn't know that Sano knows she's a girl, because like all heroines, she is INCREDIBLY DENSE sometimes. It reminds me of The Masqueraders sometimes, although the things at stake her are pretty different.

We primed the mudroom today, and tomorrow Darrel is coming to pick up the goats. Mrs. Schultz knows someone who'll take the chickens, though apparently she doesn't want the rooster.

Reading Koukou Debut still. When I finish that it'll be Special A, which was the preview in Shojo Beat this month, and OneManga has more'n 20 chapters up.

It isn't actually seven in the morning, but they're trying earlier than usual. Today we've been taking books and china and ammo to a storage unit here in town. Building 4, unit 14. Dad's going to be leaving in a few days. Today I finished painting the north wall of the living room, so next is going to be above the bench. Dad and Doug have been working on the upstairs bathroom, which they need to finish before Dad leaves.

One worry is Baron. If we can't find a place that allows pets, we'll have to shoot him. If you say you'll take him, Phil, you'd better be prepared to find a place that takes monster dogs and roommates that'll put up with him.

Well, we're home. I'm mostly unpacked, in what is record time, since we only got home a bit after midnight. Dad is coming home today to spend a few weeks fixing up the house. Hopefully he's bringing a Dillon phonebook. Oh, yeah. Apparently Rick's found a three-bedroom apartment within our price range, whatever that is. I hear the word "apartment" and instantly shy away. It might not be half as bad as it sounds, but associations and all that.

On Wednesday Sid Seaman took Doug, Owen, and me to the Garden of the Gods for a hike and lunch. It was fun. The gift shop has these beautiful little porcelain horses with designs on them. For example, one had black saddlebags, exhaust pipes, and flaming legs. It just made you think "motorcycle". And it's a horse. That was just the funniest one. Sid works in the jewelry section, so we got a tour of the Navajo rugs from a half-Navajo friend of hers. Tina was nice, and funny, and educational.

Dad just called. He's crossed into Nebraska, but there are still four hours to go. He sounds very happy.

Yes, I've been gone awhile. When I get on, I'm usually reading manga, not blogging. Last time we went to B's, I think it was last Saturday, I got the latest issue of Shojo Beat from Walmart. About 25% more happiness than Shounen Jump there. Shoujo are the girl-oriented mangas. Shounen is for guys. So is ecchi, only it's for older guys. Theoretically.

I haven't been watching any anime. I like to watch my episodes all at once, and since nobody's supposed to be on I can't even minimize, so I'm still in the middle of four different animes, including Full Metal Panic.

Starting Rex Stout. Nero Wolfe and Archie are fun. Mom says I have to survive the weekend without anything new, though.

Anyway, I've been boxing books. It seems pretty likely that we're moving to Montana in about a month. Dad will have a pretty well-paying job with Hank, and Doug can earn ten bucks an hour working for Rick. We're probably going to spend the first year or so in a rental house, where we won't be able to have any livestock. I'll have to save the money from selling the flock so that I can buy some purebreds or something. Doug says that we're going to restart our goat herd with purebred Saanen ladies if he has to use his own money to do it. Which he probably will. We're going to ask B and Darrel to take Baby and Samantha in honorable retirement, and Susan goes to the sale with the sheep. The chickens will go along too. Dad thinks that B will give me a horse and pay for riding lessons. He presumes much, and how the heck am I supposed to bring it up? "Oh, B, Dad wants to know if I can have one of your horses to take to Montana, and will you get me some riding lessons in the month before we leave and I'll be too busy packing to take them anyway?"?!! Probably. *inarticulate noise of frustration* Doug is planning how he's going to smuggle his Bionicles, which should be fun. My own contraband ought to be a bit easier. We're going to B and Darrel's tomorrow, which will give me a chance to ask stuff.

And when we get there, Dad's going to get us a YMCA mem'ship and sign us up for karate lessons. And we're going to be meeting people. Like Hank's kids. And classmates. *screams* And you are going to post a comment and say that it will be good for us, and I will tell you to shut up. Right, Phil?