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May 14, 2006
because challenges are only challenges the first time around
Holy cow. I hate moving. I really forgot how much I hate moving, which is surprising considering that it's only been 10 months since our last horrific move.
We've been back in Oberlin for about a week now, which means that our packing SHOULD be about 1/4 done. But it's not. It took me three days to make myself start calling a bunch of moving companies to price out options. It took us until Thursday night to buy packing tape so that we could start. And it took me until today to finally haul out all the boxes we saved from our last move.
In the four hours since I got those boxes out, I've packed two boxes. Two boxes full of stuff that I had already set aside before Lauren even got her job offer as things that needed to be stored in boxes for reasons unrelated to moving.
Very promising, huh?
It's just that I don't know where to start. I seem to remember that last year, moving was a Big Challenge. I had never organized a cross-country (kind of) move before, so it was fun to prove that I could handle it. It was neat to tell Lauren which boxes things should go in and be right about our system for labeling boxes. It was especially nice to know that Oberlin was covering most of our moving expenses. And it was great that we had both a loft and a dining room that were mostly unused and served as great spaces to stick boxes so that they wouldn't be in our way.
In fact, last time we packed, we had so much spare room that we managed to house a third person on an air mattress in our living room throughout the entire packing process.
This time around, it's not new and exciting. This time around, every square inch of space in our apartment gets used daily (or is taken up by the World's Largest Dining Table that the college provided and would not remove). There's nowhere to put packed boxes. We're looking at the definite possibility of having to rearrange the furniture in here to make more room for boxes. Oh yeah, and we have to pay for it all ourselves.
Anyone wanna come pack up our stuff and/or store our packed boxes for us? We'll love you forever...
Posted to Miscellaneous at May 14, 2006 04:40 PM