Posts Tagged ‘relocating’

Downsizing

I’m moving!  Blech!  At best, even when a person or family is excited for the adventure of a new home maybe in a new city, the moving process is not fun.  At worst, moving is misery.  Right now, I am feeling miserable, and since misery loves company, I am sharing my feelings with the world.  Not that I’m whining or anything, but I have moved about a zillion times in my adult life, and not that I’m counting or anything but five of those times have occurred during the past 7 years.  When I relocated to my current apartment, I knew it would be temporary—moved to a larger place so my son could hang with me until he finished school or found a place or found himself or whatever—but I didn’t realize how difficult it would be for me to give up this larger apartment and how unenthusiastic I would be about packing to downsize just a year and a half later.  I have known I would be moving for 6 months now and have only managed to force myself to pack four boxes. Sigh!

Usually when I move, I am very OCD and organized.  When I relocated to Arizona from Colorado I typed labels stating the exact contents of each box and neatly taped them to each side including the top of each box.  Everyone made fun of me, but my transition, especially since it included a short stint in storage was much easier for the extra effort.  If I needed something out of storage, I knew exactly where to look—the boxes were stacked from back to front according to which I would be least likely to need before I moved into my new place.  I was excited about and prepared for that move, but look at me now.  Just seven years later, here I am throwing stuff from any room into boxes together without labeling one of them.  Ugh!  I can’t bring myself to care enough to do any better.  I’ll get there one way or another, right.  And, at the rate I move, I’ll have at least another year or two to get organized before I have to pack again.

So…I started this blog post with the intention of informing that I will be absent from blogging for most of this month and part of next due to the move, but I dunno.  It’s possible that you will see me now more than ever as I will be looking for any avenue to avoid this drudgery.  Anybody out there want to help?