Passport status: "In Final Processing stage" and should be back to me by 1/28/2015.

They're going to let me leave the country!!!

Good thing since I already have the plane ticket.

I just counted the money I have squirreled away...
and I just calculated the paycheck I should be getting in from the tree farm.

THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!!

OH MY GIDDY AUNT!!!!!

Vacation in England next year.

Oh.
My.
God.

Step one: First paycheck of the new year, get passport.

Start there. Plan to work on step two after step one is accomplished.