Monday, April 11, 2005

Moving Day Plus 2

So
Moved.
Saturday.

There is a reason that I don't move very often and why moving companies get paid a lot of money to do the work for you.
It is bizarre. I did not get as worked up as I thought that I would have. I was just on a mission to get things done. Which we are about 98% there. I still have one closet that needs cleaning out at the old place and some cleaning supplies there. Have to clean the bathrooms tonight.
Woot.

I have never been as exhausted as I was about 9Pm on Saturday -- at least not in recent memory.

New place. Well, all of my crap is in there. Now, finding room for it -- that is the next part. I like to think of it as a whole new decorating challenge. Which it is. Not entirely sold on the way I arranged my room -- but there is time for that.

I owe a huge thanks to Kim, Stimmel, Adam and Steve for helping out. They were kind enough to give up a nice Saturday morning to help me move. Could not have done it without them. Although for the record, it was really quite entertaining to watch network engineers play Tetris with my furniture and the U-haul.
Also, I got to drive the U-haul. 26 FT. Manual transmission. I looked like some uber-scary trucker chic. Although when you are in something that big, you really don't have to worry about the other cars -- you win.

I will leave you with this high level summary:


  • Meghan's legs look like she has been out on the playground a la 4th grade (bumps, bruises and scrapes)
  • Meghan's arms look like she was a victim of domestic abuse -- from all the stupid boxes.
  • Meghan's cats are just starting to like her again -- Jury is still out on Bailey. I think he filed a complaint with the Feline Union
  • Meghan's new place is a amazing myriad of collapsed boxes, stacks of things that have no where to go and Rubbermaid bins full of -- something.
  • Meghan's old place looks even bigger than before now that it is devoid of anything.
  • Meghan's diet of the past two days has consisted of: Krispy Kremes, coffee (lots), diet coke (lots), Big Tomato & Brueggers.
  • Meghan's valiant attempts to "purge" her house of all unnecessary crap PRIOR to the move where not NEARLY as aggressive as they should have been. Hence, ANOTHER 3 bags of crap will be off to Goodwill this week.

What else??
Nothing really. All my energy for the last 2 weeks has been getting ready for this. So, nothing doing on the ground.

Going to try and get out of work early today. Really should have taken the day off, but don't have that much vacation time to burn at the moment.



Tuesday, April 05, 2005

April Showers bring...

Ok-
so i have not been the best at keeping this up.
March has been the month of purging.
And not in a weight-loss, bulimia sort of way --
I have rid my home of every piece of junk, garbage and clothing that hasn't been used,worn or touched in like 3 years.
One thing good about this move is the cleansing aspect of things.
I am getting rid of a ton of crap.
To date:
3 trips to goodwill (3-4 heavy garbage bags of stuff each time)
Copious amounts of garbage -- so much that i have started rationing it out in the garbage otherwise we would not have any room.

Moving this weekend.
Crazy.
I will miss the house. A lot.
But, by the same token i am SOOO ready to just get this thing done and taken care of.
Will be so nice to have a cheaper rent and get some stuff paid off.
But the next few days are going to suck -- that much is for sure.
What else, been doing some thinking about -- everything really.
The more physiological purging if you will...
Trying to figure out why I am still not happy here. Why I feel compelled to be somewhere else...
I still don't know.
Grass is always greener -- all that. But, there has to be something else.