Moving, finally

Just a short update to let anyone who might still be reading this know that we’re finally moving.  It’s sad and stressful… I mentioned to Flippy that I felt like I was breaking up with someone, because I’m leaving something I don’t want to leave.  Eventually I’ll love our new house, but right now I’m terrified by how tiny it is, and by all the things that aren’t working in it.  We’ve got no working dryer, only one working bathroom, an iffy stove, an iffy heatpump/air conditioner, a yard that’s full of sharp objects and a short wall that the dogs could easily jump, and a house that’s tinier than we expected.  Our current house is about 2100 sq. ft., and although the new house is supposed to be 1800 sq. ft., it isn’t…. it’s more like 1400.  We only saw the house once before we agreed to buy it (and really, it was the only house we could afford, anyway), and looking at it again we’re realizing that it’s so small we won’t have room for at lot of things we own.  The master bedroom barely has room for our bed, let alone the computer desk and the TV armoire that we have now.  The other rooms are so small that I can’t imagine putting more than a twin bed in each.  I’m sorry for being whiny, and I do appreciate having a place to live, but it’s so frustrating to know that Freddie Mac refused to let Flippy’s father buy our current house, so we could have avoided moving.  This move is taking so much out of us, emotionally and physically… I lost all day Sunday because I suddenly started to vomit on Saturday night, for no reason other than stress.  Anyway, the moving van is coming on Tuesday, ready or not.  It’s mostly “not”, but thankfully the movers will also pack up anything we haven’t tackled yet (i.e. almost everything, although we’ve packed over 100 boxes of books alone).  Today (Monday) we hope to move all the cats in a rented cargo van.  It will mean they have to spend 24 hours alone in a new place, but we’ll take all their familiar cat trees and litterboxes and hope they’ll enjoy exploring.

Just cross your fingers for us, if you’re so inclined.  We definitely feel like two people with heavy-duty chronic illness right now.  Oh, I apologize that I’ve had to temporarily shut off comments because of all the spam I’ve been getting, but once we’re moved I’ll fix the “captcha” system so I can turn comments back on :)

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 08/16 at 03:21 AM

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