Moving Sucks!

Let me start off by saying that moving SUCKS!!! I have been slowly moving from one apartment to another. I have been packing and purging my old apartment at a snails pace! While the move was a little unexpected at the time--I probably could have prepared better for this in the week or so that I knew I was going to move. However, it wouldn't be me if I didn't wait until the last minute to get everything packed and moved! How people ever pack everything up in a million boxes and move in one swoop is beyond me!

So with all of these boxes sitting in the hallway of my new apartment and probably a million more boxes in need of packing at my old apartment I decided that I would spend today getting some of the boxes unpacked and the clothes put away in my closet. Now I will say that I was going to do this without any complaints. But let me say I was happily surprised when my dear friend Laurie called and asked if I would like her to come over and have her help me. First after having a puppy hanging out with me for the last 8 days a little adult conversation would be nice and secondly she is Miss Organized--so of course I said I would love help!


Laurie was just through the door when she started motivating me to empty some of these boxes. We had spoken that emptying 3 boxes would be a major accomplishment ontop of putting away all of the clean clothes that I had moved up to the bedroom!

I can say that the accompanying pictures are of Laurie's handy work! Who needs Niecy Nash when I have Laurie to help me out! Yes as you can see in the side picture here she organised my sweaters (1st and 2nd shelf) by color! I know what you are thinking..."I wish I had someone like Laurie around".

We got numerous boxes unpacked (6 total), 2 bags of clothes that I don't need that were sent to the Good Will box, the bathroom organized, the kitchen straightened up a tad and tons of clothes put away. While I know I got a lot accomplished tonight, I also know what awaits me tomorrow at my old apartment and that just makes me want to...well scream/drink/faint/run as fast as I can -- you pick the perfect description!

I have 12 days before I need to be out of my other apartment and fully in my new one--so I guess I am spending a lot of quality time at the other place packing, cleaning and loading the remaining items into vehicles. I already know now that I have about 3 or 4 boxes of laundry left to move over and from these photos I question where I am going to put them.

I also know I have a lot of books, furniture, dishes and food left at the GR-residence ontop of more I am sure. I have learned that when you live in a place for so long you collect a lot of unnecessay "junk"...with this move I am purging all of that crap out of my life.
The one thing that I could say is--let me spend 2 more full days at this other place to remove the things I would like and then have the dome form over this other apartment and zap the remaining "junk" out of it like in Monsters, Inc.

The one thing that I learned about moving and packing is that a person needs to have a game plan. Tomorrow when I drive across town to my old place I will be driving into the "battle" and planning this out like a war! Each room needs to be conquered- with little to no causalities on my side (seeing that I am packing on my own casualties are not an option). I have my orders and I am ready to go in and attack like it is nobody's business.

I know that it seems odd that I compared packing and moving to war, but I needed to give myself a pep talk. Oh December 1st how I long for you to show yourself so I can stop worrying about you showing up!