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Moving Along

Well, as I mentioned previously, DH and I bought a house on Tuesday afternoon, and this weekend, we move.

I dislike packing – I’m not good at filling a box so that anything stacked on top of it will be stable and not cave in due to empty spaces in my packing. I really dislike moving, because it takes everything I dislike about packing and multiplies it by a hundred or so.

But we shall perservere. These past few days have been a lot of hard work, but the end result – being in a home that is ours, with our rules and our rooms and all our stuff…completely worth it.

We won’t have Internet access at our new home for a while, or cable. Or a home phone. There are a lot of things we are doing without to do this, and do it right. So please, if you don’t see a post for the next three days, don’t abandon me. I’ve just started making progress, even getting someone to sign up for my blog’s feed (yes, you! I’m talking about you!). I don’t want to undo the progress I’ve made.

Since school starts Monday, I’m taking that day off. To make myself feel better, you know, in case the kids need me desperately. But I’ll be back in my groove by Tuesday, and hopefully will be able to even bank some entries for when I’m up and running again.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend, and I’ll catch up with y’all on Tuesday!

Doing What You Hate

I hate to pack. I don’t like to do it for vacation, because I always manage to pack too much. I don’t like to do it when I’ve needed to move, because I am not very good at spatial organization (that means I suck at organizing my stuff into as few boxes as possible, and usually tend to toss stuff together as I find it on the shelf instead of picking the best items for the available space).

But it has to be done. You can’t take a vacation without any clothing, and you can’t move without putting things in boxes. Well, I suppose you could, but it would be much messier.

Lots of things in life are like that. It starts when you’re a kid. You have to clean your room. You have to do your homework. It continues into adulthood. You have to work to earn money to live. You have to pay taxes.

The only way to get these things behind you is to just get up there in The Tasks face and do it. Simple as that. Procrastinating makes it worse, and doing a little bit at a time – when you have that time available to you – makes it a million times easier (although dragged out).

I personally don’t have that kind of drag-out time. I did, but I procrastinated.

I’m signing off early tonight to tackle a little bit of my Task, and go to bed so I can get up in the morning and accomplish a little bit more. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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