Wow. I can’t believe we close in 25 days. It seems like just the other day that we put the offer in and began the whole akin-to-waterboarding process.
Today, my honey knocked another task off our list, getting home-owner‘s insurance. We packed up a lot of our living room last night, mostly books we want to keep and knick-knacks that are not essential to daily living. The mantle of the fireplace is so bare now, it’s strange.
We also gave notice on our falling-down rental charming bungalow, and I mailed an important related document today. So actually, three things got stricken from The Grand Moving List.
As you can probably surmise, I feel a lot better about things today than I did late last week. Hopefully that brief period of Oh-my-god-what-the-fucking-hell-kill-me-now is over, and I can resume my regularly scheduled demeanor of Zen Goddess.
Still left to do:
- Get a fridge
- Find a door for the carport (part of Operation: Captive Shiba)
- Find a gate for the other side of the house (see above covert ops)
- Fence area near carport (again, see covert ops)
- Move the utilities to the new address
- Change address with the post office, places of employment, etc
- Hire movers
- Try not to drop dead from exhaustion before 11/30
- Oh yeah, actually finalize the deal and close
I have this strange urge to assume an Aussie accent and quip, “That’s not a list, this is a list!”
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Darn. If I were going to be in town I would help you guys move
The packing is the worst, in my opinion. And the moving day. I am SO glad you are hiring a moving company. I have always done the asking of friends thing and you know…it was WAY too stressful. If we move again, I am going to insist on movers.
Cnote, thanks for the thought- we love ya for it.
Maria- gods, I don’t know where we’d be without movers. We’d be so screwed- between Bayou’s neuropathy in her arm and my neck injury, we’d be absolutely farked beyond belief without movers! It’s definitely money well-spent.
Hmmm……I hope you don’t have the “Cook Thanksgiving dinner” in there too.