Yesterday: It's hard to watch someone you love packing his or her things. It's equally hard to be the one packing their things. Scott & I have been together 24/7 for the better part of the last 4 years now so thinking about being apart for 6 months straight is weird. Granted there are times when we can't stand one another and we need some alone time, but you get used to that other person being around or being around soon. Living on a boat, with one person in shore with your only means of transportation off the boat, makes you very aware of where each other is. I told Scott to look at it like this: at least we're not going to be apart because we are mad at each other, just being apart. We figure this is an opportunity to grow without each other: Scott will be sailing without me on the boat (with a friend or maybe solo sailing) and I'll be in a strange new house moving stuff in and buying stuff for the both of us. It's still weird.

I'm still not 100% sure I won't come back to help him sail. Having my doubts about it today. We still want the house either way especially since there are renters in it now and that would provide income. Making big decisions can be hard, huh?

Today: printing out, signing, and scanning all the contract documents. All this involves going in shore with the laptop, printer and scanner - forgetting the printer program - having to go back to the boat, Ah, life on a boat.

A book Scott got me claimed that 97% of women who try sailing like it. Right here, right now 4 out of 5 women don't like it. Maybe she just got her sentence backwards. I don't know who the author of that book interviewed but they weren't the 5 women here in Bahia del Sol. Maybe there is a reason that women were bad luck on a boat. Women worry. It's just one of the things we do. We like knowing we can take care of others and ourselves whether that be physically or monetarily. Women would rather have a job then not have a job and be on a boat. Maybe it's because some of their fellow male sailors don't let them do anything so they 'get' to sit around watching their men do stuff, some times watching them do stuff wrong AND not being able to say anything either. Not fun.