Change in Schedule...Change in Houses...Change in Everything!

If you have been reading for the last couple of months, then you know that I am currently in the throes of moving from an apartment to my new house! I am currently sitting in my new office/craft studio, at 3:16am, after spending the night in the apartment and moving some stuff over at 2:30. My life is so scattered and disorganized right now that I am just unsure what is happening at any given moment.

I do not like this feeling!

The movers show up on Wednesday to move almost everything over. That means that I have to get all sorts of things packed up and ready before then. I will not be ready. I decided not to completely vacate my apartment until next month, so I have some more time to clean things and move things that I can't get packed before then. There will be lots less pressure to get things over when the big stuff is already here. I can move things as I can over the next month.

I went over to the apartment yesterday after church, and I packed up the bathroom, took down the bookshelves, and rearranged the bed so I have more box space. I started packing up and throwing out the kitchen stuff, but that is nowhere near finished. The craft room is a joke - I will probably have to move most of my paper and art stuff myself. The good thing about this move is that it is a very small move - I can stop by on my way home to pack up and move things over without adding too much mileage to my daily commute. This will be helpful since I cannot get all my junk packed up. I have done lots, but not enough. I will be spending another apartment night so I can pack as much as I can before the movers arrive.

I am so tired.

This is weariness of the body and the mind. I wonder what I am going to do with my students for the next two days. I have two hours and 20 minutes left until I start my hour commute to the workplace to get sessions going. Only two days before I have a five day break to clean and pack and move more and more over from home #1 to home #2. After the movers come and move all the really big stuff, I will be able to move the rest at my leisure - or just throw it away! Originally, I wanted to be out of the apartment at the end of this month, but since I have to get the carpet cleaned professionally, I decided not to pressure myself and decided to spend the extra rent. I was going to spend the entire Thanksgiving weekend cleaning the apartment, but now I have a month to get things done rather than a week. This makes things a bit more relaxed for me.

My first task on Wednesday is to get my desks set up down here in the basement office/studio. I am sitting on the floor right now, with the keyboard on my feet, and the monitor significantly below my eye line. My back is protesting the bad ergonomics and is wanting to be rested a bit, but there is no good position at the moment for typing and working on the computer. The ATT guy teased me about not having anything to sit on. It is true. I have very few pieces of furniture at this point right now - and none of them are over here for the next two days. I am looking forward to arranging things the way I want them right now. My mother and sister are coming out the week before Christmas for the express purpose of getting me more furniture and to decorate a bit. I will live with my limited furniture until then.

Oh boy. It is now almost my regular time to wake up. I still have two hours to go until it is time to leave for work. I left for church yesterday, turned the corner, saw my garage door opener, and remembered that I didn't close the door. So, I turned around and closed the door. I now have a sticky note on my dashboard to remind me to close the door. I think I will not need the note once I start pulling in nose first rather than backing in. I should be visually prompted to close the door by looking at the open garage rather than just pulling out and driving away.

Once I get stuff over here, I am going to look into my morning routine again. I intend to blog in the mornings like I have been for many years. I may do my household chores in the mornings when I have some energy rather than trying to do them after school when I am wiped out. Since I don't have neighbors except on the bathroom and basement wall, I can vacuum and mop and do all that stuff without worrying about being too noisy. That's a new idea for me, but it is one that could really work out for the better for me. I am a morning person who has more energy from 4-6am than from 4-6pm. If I can embed my chores into my mornings, then I might be able to get more creative work done during the afternoons.

My mantra for this move has been "start as you intend to go." I am trying to remember that I like the minimalistic existence over here at the moment. There are lots of empty walls and openness over here right now, and I like that somewhat. I am hoping that I can keep things organized and clean. Upstairs will be my focus for neat and pretty. Downstairs will be my creative hub - I still want it to be organized and clean, but it will be less traveled by others than upstairs. I am taking this change as an opportunity to make my life the way I want it to be.

So, as I unpack, I will be organizing things into zones. The office/studio area is priority one. There will be a video/webinar zone. There will be a book making zone. There will be a music therapy visual aid creation station. There will be a sewing zone and a yarn zone. There may be a reading zone as well. We will see if there is room in the basement for a squishy chair. If there isn't space in the office itself, there is room in the library for a squishy chair (and not much else beside the books, CDs, DVDs, and other library stuff). Most of the stuff that I have will find a home downstairs. Upstairs will contain my clothing and not much else. It should be easy to keep it pretty and neat since there isn't much else that is around...well, right now.

I have an hour and 38 minutes left before I head to work. I think I will go get some of my freshly cleaned clothing and get dressed for the sub-zero temperature happening right now that will end up being in the fifties by the afternoon - layers are my friends right now. I need water for work. I guess there isn't much more to do here, but I have to keep myself occupied somehow. Maybe I will brainstorm a chore schedule. Let's see, kitchen cleaning, bathroom cleaning, vacuuming the downstairs, laundry, and what else... I am sure that the list will grow. Eventually, yard work will be on the list, but not now. 

Thank you for reading all my nattering...