I'm amazed at the gamut of emotions I've run in the process of moving to a new country. Especially considering I only just found out under a week ago. My apartment looks as if I haven't moved a single finger in the direction of "PACKING".
How does one pack a 2 floor apartment full of junk in under two weeks? How does one then move all of that junk to another holding pen with no moving truck? Just an extended cab Chevy Colorado and a lovely lady with a herniated disc who happens to be riddled with arthritis?
Not to mention the two cats that must be left behind in the empty apartment, getting visitors every day (or every other day) until arrangements can be made to ship them to Mexico. (A process that, on it's own, is inducing enough panic to bring me to tears. . . . I don't do tears.)
I know paradise is going to be an adventure!
I sure wasn't expecting it to start so soon . . .
How do you pack all that?? Eeek - I should have read this post first! You probably don't pack ALL of it - or even most of it if you can convince yourself that starting over could be fun. Also if you properly advertise (craigslist) an everything must go sale (make it a normal sale in the morning and tell them the hour you'll be dropping prices to move things) you'd probably make enough on the things you don't want to take with you to afford a mover and truck for a couple hours to help with that get to the holding pen situation. Or you find friends and beg, beg, beg. (Sexypants and I did it and we only sold like 1/5 of our least liked things and make $500!)
ReplyDeleteThe cats I don't even know what to tell you about lovebug, my heart goes out to you! Why do you have to leave them though - from everything I've read before there's no quarantine for cats & dogs to Mexico - just the need to get their vaccine records and take them with...? Is it that you're flying not driving this time??
It sounds like you need someone to deliver your car with cats to you. It's too bad you don't know any college students responsible enough that would love to get a paid road trip and mini vacay out of you in exchange for driving them for you...
If I were moving straight into an apartment, I'd absolutely take the moglets with me on my first trip. BUT . . . I'm being put up in a hotel first (I do not trust anyone to find me an apartment, unfortunately!) so for a month I'll be in temporary housing that does not allow kitties.
ReplyDeleteALSO . . . the contract I've been offered is my probationary contract . . so I'm only contracted until 12-19-10. At that time, they have every right to tell me to take a hike and that I'm no longer employed.
Sooooo I'm also scared to ship the moglets down there only to have to ship them back a few months later. *siiiiigh*
Needless to say I'm stressed to the tips of my hair!!!
I'm proud of you for doing it anyway! And the nice thing about moglets is, they'll still love you no matter when you get back. :D
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