1. That’s it, guys. Thirty minutes. Half an hour while the first load of sheets are in the washer and I inhale some coffee and my 500th KIND bar this month.
2. I’m living on peanut butter breakfast bars (shout out, KIND company! you good folks are keeping me fed) and Moe’s takeout right now. So I’m packing up my kitchen and looking around thinking, “Hey, look at all these fancy knives. I remember doing…well, something with these things. The slicing and the chopping and such. There used to be a cutting board and some spices involved…” I have a freaking mortar and pestle, people! There used to be real food in here! I am missing the real food.
3. I wonder if moving related scurvy is a thing.
4. And if you’d told me ten years ago that I’d miss cooking I’d have called you crazy. Life is weird.
5. Yesterday was pull-all-that-crap-out-of-the-attic-and-drag-it-downstairs-because-I’m-not-paying-to-move-it-dammit day. Good times. That’s all me, too, because BrightSide is super zen about this process. Or at least we take turns on the wig out moments. That’s the sign of a great partnership – you don’t lose your shit simultaneously so there’s someone there to pull you back from the edge.
6. Which means I’m totally rocking the drill sergeant boots around here and that’s fine, I’m channeling my mother every single day. Have I told you guys she executed nineteen moves as a military wife? NINETEEN. Some of them across freaking oceans.
7. So when BrightSide asked are you sure you want to do this – ie. sort everything we own, donate/trash/pack everything up, truck it all out, squat at the cabin for a few nights (shout out, mom&popH!), load it all in, then unpack our entire life on the other end – I said Hell, yeah, I’ve got this.
8. Most days I’m pretty sure I’ve got this.
9. The others I figure I’ll just buy new underwear if mine gets lost in the move.
10. Hey, look at that, 28 minutes and counting. Just enough time to publish and roll on. Happy Monday, everybody!
Military moving is an unrecognized fine art, and clearly you have the gene.
I know the feeling of missing cooking. I last had it six years ago when we moved! Pizza, bbq, travel food, hotel food, travel food — got to my MIL’s house, everyone there to welcome us home — and we had… pizza. LOL Here’s to whipping out the mortar and pestle and grindin some homecooked flavor back into your life!
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That gene is passed generation to generation until someone finally refuses to ever ever EVER move and then I guess it dies out. I forget how different my childhood was until I watch my kids go through something like this and they’re stumbling around shell-shocked by the insanity. 😆
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Moo was like that when we left Georgia. She didn’t remember the home before that. She couldn’t imagine another room would be hers. Once her walls were bare and her non-essentials were in boxes, she didn’t want to be in her room. She slept in her sister’s room until we left.
By the by, I’m in the group that doesn’t want to move again. I’ve moved almost 30 times.
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Keep going will soon be completed – those peanut butter bars are glorious. You do make me smile with your stories. Thank you.
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Thank you. Keeping my head down and the KIND bars stocked. 😆
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Moving is a true test of fortitude, and it sounds like you’ve got it – despite momentary lapses. Hang in there!
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Bit by bit, right? No matter what, we will eventually reach the end of this madness and be in the next house so I’m holding onto the long view. Bwahahaha!!
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Good luck – it sounds like you have this by the tail.
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Yep. Sometimes it seems like the tail of a rabid squirrel…but I’ve definitely got a hold of it. 😂
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“I’m channeling my mother every single day.”
Made me laugh out loud. I didn’t move often like you did [19 times!] but I relate to that idea. I channel my mother whenever I have to do something stressfully adult-like. Carry on, you [and your mother] have got this under control!
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Yes! She’s especially helpful when I’m dealing with uncooperative customer service. And house negotiations – mom DEFINITELY showed up during house negotiations. That woman did not take any flack off ANYONE. 😆
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Have a good one. All the best for this venture.
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Thanks! It’s gonna be an interesting week…
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👍👌
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