7P

Well no actual eagles; but Dogs, cats, rats, lizards, bugs.. have landed at the new place.
Oh and me too.
And a biggish pile of our shyte.
I was sort of surprised by how quickly Har adapted. We shut him in the bathroom with litterbox and water while we unpacked 2 large vehicles and the trailer. Then we let him loose and just wandered around putting some stuff away. Within an hour Har was out- talking, and being underfoot and sharpening his wit on my ankles. Yay! This was his first move so I had no idea how he was going to react. But I guess being raised by a psychotic confidence building freak can have some advantages- lol.
There is still plenty to do to be fully moved, but the big stuff and the critters, and the ‘vital’ stuff is here.

Well, we got the place. (whew)

Yes it is an apartment, in a building, in a complex. But it does have a fitness center and other ‘accessories’ and it seems to be a nicer/newer complex

Yes they do and will take our critters. Big relief there for me.

No I haven’t gotten a transfer.

Yes we are moving a lot of our stuff to the new place. Doing it in small loads, not using a moving van.

Yes T is living there.

No I’m not- yet. No I’m not happy about that. Yes it makes it very hard to pack our stuff, but it needs to get there, and it needs to get done. You see I have this weird psychological twitch- that I feel safer/more secure if I have ‘my stuff’ and ‘my family’ around me. Will feel like living naked in hostile territory without it. Bad enough that we will likely be getting rid of (selling/donating) more than half our things.

Yes I wish this was all over. Can I just fast-forward a few months? Of course I don’t know if/when the transfer will happen, so have no idea when this will be done with..

No I do not handle being ‘out of control’ very well… I don’t even like getting drunk, let alone leaving my life and fate to random chance and other peoples’ whims. Yeah this kinda compounds the whole packing/moving stuff insecruity problem.

So
No I really do not like T’s request that I not commute. Yes I understand it in theory. Commuting 45-50 mi each way would be tiring, but so what? I commute 20-25 each way now… And it would make it possible to put the house on the market much faster. And selling the house would remove the apx $1400/mo bill for mortgage and utilities. And it is also prolonging my mental/emotional angst about the move.

Well we are on the last leg of the journey
We sign paperwork this weekend on the new place.
Tons to do in the pack/sort/move categories.
Sorry if the entries are sporadic
Life is a bit insane right now
Moving without Moving
Try it sometime, it’s “fun”
LOLOLOL

uh oh, did that sound a bit hysterical?

Just Biding My Time (aka Married- Living Alone)

So we are sort of looking for places in His Town of Employment.
Want to get transfer sorted out for My Job first
(the commute would so suck!!!)
And need to find a place that is both affordable, and pet amenable.

Then- “The Move” …. .. …… .. oh yeah!

Can you hear the sarcasm?
But at least it will be awesome once it’s over.
And with the paring down, it should make things a lot easier.
We can’t take everything.
Oh and struck on a possibly brilliant idea.
Move all the stuff we want to keep
Throw/Shred all the ‘personal’ stuff
And hire an EstateSale company to come through and sell off the rest
(minus their percentage of course)
That way I don’t have to deal with it and work full time simultaneously.

Then we can easily sell the house. Hopefully it will sell quickly!
Don’t want to list it until we are out. Due to the fact that I would lose my mind thinking that there could be people wandering though our house when I’m not home.

Nuff of that!

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Got a bunch of, I assume, Bots trying to register as Admin12 with “myhomeemail @ gmail” um.. right.

I go to the effort of asking for a name or something to go on, to know you are humans and get more phishing.
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So-
With all the insanity, and all the “up in the airedness” I am going to operate on the assumption that we will land in a 1 bdr apartment and have the option of maybe a small storage unit (for SCA and seasonal stuff).
That said- I really need to weed down our stuff.
A Lot.
Not sure what I am going to do with all our extra stuff…
Hmm… Does Goodwill have a donation tonnage limit?

You know the saying about it being the journey, not the destination?
Well they’re wrong. In this case it will definitely be the destination!! The journey is pretty much going to be like riding in the back of the greyhound bus in summertime…

Then there is the question of me +/- job.
Going to have to burn that bridge when we get to it.
But we have found several places that are affordable on one income! Wow. That would be so awesome! To be able to ‘keep house’ and do a lot of volunteering with Mina, and have a simple low-stress part-time job. So much stress in the last few years– Actually now that I think of it, pretty much all our marriage has been overshadowed by some heinous stress or another; with the Nevada move, my mom’s failing health, the move back, her catastrophic collapse, the whole nursing home/guardianship gig, my bro in-law, all that piled on top of he and I both having stressful jobs and sucky schedules; it has made for a somewhat strained relationship, and challenging life. We both try really hard, but it would be wonderful to not have to work so damn hard at it. I could SO appreciate that.

So I go into each day with an eye on the end result in the hopes of maintaining my sanity.

Lots of things changing around here.
The hubby got his new job 45 miles away.
But he is escaping the HELL-JOB !!! Yeah!!
He’s going to be doing the urban/week commuter shuffle until such time as we can find a place down there, and move.
Which means I get to sort through the house- while working full time.
’s gonna be fun. (not) At least my employer is ok with me taking some time off.

So figure I need to sort our 3+ bdr house full of stuff down to about a 1.5 bdr.
And need to find a rental place that will be amenable to our menagerie.
And we will need to sell the house… .. ok then.

Add to this - that there are “big changes” at my place of employment.
**some days I really wish for a fulfilling job pumping gas…**
So then we move and then I will be doing the commuter shuffle.
Until such time as I find another job and/or we don’t need the income.

Several people have offered to help me with the sorting process, but it is kind of impractical because they don’t know what/how to sort… you know what I mean.

And the prospect of moving to a profoundly -nay, Rabidly! LIBERAL town. Oh the joy.
Wonder what they will think of the gunrack in the truck? LOL