Today I officially finished my job at Drake. Also, I turned in my two-weeks notice resignation letter at McDonalds. Which means I have two more weeks before we really are actually leaving Des Moines. Of course, I'm quitting a week before the big move to finalize sales (car and house), packing, and all the other minutia that needs to be done. Meanwhile, I'm feeling weighed down by all the stress of moving and dealing with all the scenarios we've been running through. Our options are: rent a moving truck (too expensive), buy a truck (too much to deal with and also very expensive), use Kent's friend's trailer (too annoying to attach, fill, pull, and then too much to deal with once we get there, also too expensive), or store stuff for a few months and pick it up in October and/or December (which is probably what we're going to do, but the question is where to store?). So that's one thing I'm dealing with.
Also, I'm packing the house. Being overly organized, this means a lot of sorting, packing, repacking, donating, selling, and giving away stuff. Two people can really accumulate a lot of stuff in one year, I hate to think what a family would accumulate in a lifetime. Of course, I eagerly started packing way to early, which means that now I'm sick of it all and just can't wait to be done. Also, Aaron is super annoyed that we're down to only one couch to sit on and a bed. Everything else has been sold and/or discarded by now. I have food sitting out on all the counters, and I have books stacked on every free surface until I can go through the piles and decide what to keep, what to take, what to store, and what to get rid of. My goal is to make the whole thing less stressful. Unfortunately, I think I'm accomplishing the opposite.
Yesterday two men came to look at the house. They are trailer-flippers. And they seemed to maybe probably want to actually make an offer in the next few days, which is really encouraging. I'm SO thankful that we actually have a place to live in Waco, and we're not really worried about when to leave or where to go from here. I'm super-thankful for our supportive family on both ends who are willing to let us stay with them. Also, I'm thankful for jobs we can leave here without too much problems and that Aaron's bosses are so supportive and willing to help him get a job right away when we get there. Also, I'm glad that we have so much to look forward to in June and July so that I (hopefully) won't get too bad of post-move depression (which, knowing myself, is inevitable anyways).
Really, I just need something to think about other than the move and the upcoming events. I keep reminding myself to focus on here and now and cherish these last few weeks in this place I have come to call home. No matter what I say about the crazy weather or crazy people or even this crazy house, Des Moines has really become home for us, and it will be a wonderful place to come visit and maybe someday come back to. I will really really miss my Layla-Bear and the dear people at Bondurant and my wonderful coworkers at McDonald's. I will really miss being so close to my amazing in-laws and all the love and support they provide. But we're really ready to move away and start a new chapter, now if I can just finish packing, selling, and moving, we'll be home-free! :)
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