this has been running through my head the last week or two. ever since we all went and looked at the new place, and ran around like little kids going wow, look at the kitchen. wow! lots of cabinets and wow! look, fans in every bedroom! wow!! and so on and so forth. it just got me super pumped at the time. we hung out in the empty house for probably a good hour or so even though there is nothing there. and then we were gettin ready to leave, and it was after midnight, and someone mentioned the time and how we had to get home. and that's when i said it... and ever since i've been wishing over and over that it was true.
moving... what a pain in the ass. even with movers, it will be a pain in the ass. i think the hardest part is the sorting and packing. because everything can't go. everything doesn't need to go. some things will need to be thrown away. so you have to sit and sort through piles of shit that have accumulated over the last two years and memories just come flooding back. i don't want to part with any of it, but at some point you have to grow up and move on. and you have to purge all those ghosts of things that are hidden on dusty shelves and dark closet corners.
i wish that i was like Genie from bewitched. then i could just cross my arms, blink my eyes and toss my pony tail and BAM! it would all be moved and organized in the new place just as i liked it. things aren't that easy though. and with the wedding coming up next week, well, things are going to be hectic. i have today off, but then have to work the rest of this week. and then sunday through wednesday of next week b/c i'm leaving next thursday for four days for the wedding. so basically, working straight up until then. after wedding, it's one week until movers come. and i'll only have one day off for packing, which means the majority of it will have to be done in the evenings. then after we move, we have one week until our housewarming party the following saturday. so once again, unpacking and organizing will have to be done mostly in the evenings. it just sucks that this whole exercise will consumer the majority of my free time for the next three weeks. if i haven't said it before, i hate moving.
but it is going to be completely worth it and i'm really, really excited. really, the whole thing will be relatively painless for all the benefits there will be. dylan will love it. we have a backyard of sorts (on the smallish side) and we are going to put up a fence so that she can run around out there and we can throw the ball to her without her having to be on a leash. she's going to love it. and huey gets his computer room. and i get my art hole. everyone gets what they want and that's a nice thing.
so if you don't hear much from me in the next two weeks, well... you know why. i actually need to go get started on our room right now b/c that was my project for today. not to pack, but just to clean and organize our room and bathroom so that it could in theory be packed in one evening. why do i have a funny feeling that we will start to pack early with the best of intentions, get distracted and end up doing it blitzkrieg-style the night before the movers come?
