After having had the house on the market since last October, we have a contract for sale, and hopefully we will be moving in less than two weeks. Every time we move, I realize that I’ve forgotten how much I hated it the last time. I am excited about the new house and location, but I’m nervous about all the thousand and one things that have to go right for the closing on our house and the closing on our new house to happen as scheduled. Such practicalities aside, I have compiled a list of things that either prove you will be moving soon or show that you are in the process of moving.
You will be moving soon if:
1) You changed the shelf paper in the house any time recently. (Confession time: I don’t have shelf paper in this house.)
2) You will be moving soon if you order new checks with your address on them. (Yup, we did that last year.)
You know you are moving if any of the following are true:
1) You are on a first-name basis with the Home Depot greeter, or the cashier at the local U-Haul, and they keep a stack of boxes reserved especially for you.
2) Images of full trash bags (with someone else’s stuff) dance in your head.
3) You tell someone, “I don’t care what it costs; all books are coming with us!”
4) Your husband gives you an uneasy glance when you inform him that you and you alone will pack the craft room.
5) You raise the art of swearing at the tape gun that refuses to work correctly for you to new heights. (The tape guns always work well for Mark and my daughter; I end up in the middle of a wadded tangle of tape.)
6) You are seriously considering donating everything you own to charity and moving to Key West, where you will live in a tent in ultra-minimalist style.
7) You ditch the Key West idea because two parents, one 24-year-old girl, and three dogs are too much for one tent to hold.
8) You have to navigate a labyrinth of boxes to reach either end of the house. While navigating, you discover where the book boxes are by running into them. A trip to the ER is optional.
Hopefully, the next time you hear from me, it will be from a new location.
Have you had any adventures in moving that make for good stories?
