4 posts tagged “moving”
I've been packing for the last several hours, and it feels like I've barely made a dent. To be fair, the only thing I've significantly tackled is the living room, and I spend a Very Long Time whenever I have to pack my books. I'm extremely picky about them, and of nearly everything I own I am just about most concerned for their safe transport. Steve is moving back to his house soon (160 miles away, in case you wondered) and once he's gone I'll REALLY begin the work of putting things in boxes. It's a little difficult when there's electronics and computer equipment strewn all about, but after he leaves I'll basically have a huge empty room in which to pile things. I was hoping to be packed by the time he left but it doesn't seem feasible right now... I was going to invest in a storage unit (blah), but he's got an empty garage so once I'm packed up I'll get a U-Haul, make the trip, and store my things at his place for free.
My basic plan is to pack down to the bare essentials so I can up and go with very little notice, but it seems like my notice will be here any day.
I've got a certified letter waiting for me at the post office, and a process server tried to come yesterday to deliver documents. I don't know who they think they are fooling, the guy left me a note saying he has important documents for me that "might help save your home!" Now, of course we know that's not TRUE, and while I understand that people in his line of work have to resort to deception... still that's pretty damn scummy. I mean, some people really ARE trying to keep their homes, and the foreclosure court notice would be crushing. I hope he's happy with himself.
Separating things to keep and also to take to Goodwill is a really weird process... it's like trying to save things from a fire, except that the fire moves slowly and will take several months to consume your home. What memories will you keep, what will you surrender, what will you pull out of the Goodwill box and repeatedly reconsider?
I've never been good at letting go, and this seems harder because I actually have TIME to speculate.
Do I keep the Christmas wrap? Will I ever have somebody to wrap gifts for again?
Do I keep items that I don't particularly care for, but strongly care for the memories of receiving them? The memory is the important part, but what about the holes left in the past as you start to forget? Do I need reminders?
Do I keep items that I love, but I want to forget how I received them?
Posters? Paintings? I don't know when I'll have a place to display them.
How big can you make a box marked "Fragile"? What if they get crushed after months of storage?
How much newspaper does it take to wrap breakable things?
Some things I have set aside for donation simply because I cannot bear to throw them away, and I'll pretend that Goodwill won't throw them away either.
I already have 4 huge boxes of Goodwill items. I need to put them in the car and take them while I still know that I can.
The majority of the moving is done, now it's on to the cleaning of the old place and the arranging of the new one. I also learned something about myself... I have a lot of shit. But that's okay. :-)
Weighed in today, have now lost 7.2 lbs total. Yay!
I just finished making our reservation for a U-Haul tomorrow, which means it is official. We are really moving into our own place. I am unbelievably excited about having a home that is OURS, not something that we pay every month to borrow. Almost everything is already packed (with the exception of the kitchen, and I'm heading that way shortly) and the apartment is taking on that look of 'people who are on their way out.' Our fridge is getting delivered tomorrow (we own a *fridge*!) and we will be able to rest assured that any new lifeform spawned in the fridge is from our forgotten vegetables and no one elses. This is great!
I was a little concerned about moving while I was sick, but I feel sooooo much better today. The body aches are gone, and a lot of the goo in my chest/head is breaking up and getting expelled in a process that Kenny just describes as "eww." For Monday's weigh-in, I'm sure I will have lost at least a pound in snot alone. :-D
Heard from my mom today, there has been a change in my sister's diagnosis. Because so many of the presumed MS lesions have disappeared after steroid treatment, the doctor now thinks she has acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (or ADEM). Try saying that five times fast! I was trying to find more information on that condition, but neither google nor webmd produced any articles written in English that I understand. Hopefully when Dad is back from Japan he can give me some insight on what that actually means.
Yesterday was my first day of points-tracking for Weight Watchers, and it went well. I really felt full at the end of the day, and for the most part ate what I wanted and figured out the points afterward. I'll be able to eat even more when I wean myself off of soda... yesterday, a coke and a dr pepper took up 8 of my 28 points. Those bastards! But, I suppose 8 was a good trade off to prevent me from having a horrible caffeine headache.
We're supposed to start packing the house today... not off to a good start so far, since Kenny is asleep upstairs and I'm still in the underwear I slept in and need a shower. Maybe I'll bring the boxes in from my car to help me get motivated. Or maybe I'll just take a long shower. Or play video games. Or figure out how I want to spend my 28 points today. Or look up the number to a moving company that will pack for me.
