Even though it was in the works to happen eventually, I've been forced to play my hand prematurely, so to speak, and I am now in the process of moving out of Florida and heading to South Carolina.

Long story short, I got into a huge fight with my mother, and she threw me and my boyfriend of almost 4 years out on the street.
I'm well past due on the moving-out thing, I know. All attempts to save up and move out on my own time and terms in the past have failed, but this time I have no choice in the matter, and I'm making the best of it.

It's gone surprisingly smoothly, which I was not expecting in the least, despite Mom confiscating both our cell phones before giving us the boot.

Thankfully, a good friend and his wife offered to take us in to their spare room in their condo in SC. They paid for an airline ticket for my boyfriend to get him up there ASAP to start looking for a new job, since he had to quit his old one at Winn-Dixie once he new where we were headed since Winn-Dixie doesn't exist that far north anymore.

And that leaves me here in Florida still, crashing at my best friend's place for the time being. I've been driving back and forth to my parents' place to pack up my stuff. My managers at MY job have been absolute angels through all this, and gave my shifts to other people so I'd have time to get things in order, and helped me find a new store to transfer to up north and finish all the related paperwork that goes with the transfer process.

Now I can focus on getting all my things in boxes. Once I'm done with that, hopefully by this coming Friday, our new roommates will send my boyfriend back down here, we'll rent a U-Haul van, load it up, he'll drive the van and I'll hop in my car, and we'll get on our way.

I'm still quite a bit nervous about the drive, though. I've never driven that much of a distance from home in ANY vehicle, and my poor Buick... I'm afraid it may not make the journey. The poor thing's falling apart. D: Not much I can do about it now though. Here's hoping it's tougher than I think it is.