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Moving Sucks

Last Friday we got a call from the property management company to let us know the owner was going to take occupancy of the house.

I hate moving. Really, Really hate moving.  You’d think I’d be adjusted to it by now.  Not so much.  My parents said that by the time they’d been married 17 years, they’d moved 16 times.  I’m not sure how many of them took place in the 3 years it took from when they married until I was born… but that time frame included a four year stay at a houses in Louisiana.  I wonder if all the moving when I was young instilled a sense of anxiety or if my stress is “normal”. 

I know that from now until we bring the last box into the new place (wherever that may be… ), I’ll be on edge, have trouble sleeping, eat lots of salty snacks and chocolate, have a compulsion to drink a little more, waste time sorting little things like computer files or screws and nails.  I’ll want to go to the computer and chat with people I haven’t talked to in years, but I won’t want to do anything social with my face-to-face friends.

I worry about the dogs.  With Taz’s recent back injury, he needs to spend his time relaxing, not gearing off my stress.  The last time we moved, it sent Oz over the edge.  With the stress of us moving and his undiagnosed Addison’s, I came home to find him almost bled-out on the kitchen floor.  At least this time we know he’s getting proper hormone replacement.  The dogs make it a bit harder to find a place too; one floor (both the dogs and I don’t do stairs very well), fenced in yard, and they have to take pets.  I did a search for places the other day with “pets” in the requirements and got ZERO matches.  There are places that will accept them, but most don’t offer it up front, it’s something that needs to be negotiated.

John’s been busy looking for places, I’ve been busy boxing, sorting, throwing things out.  I know this move won’t be anything compared to the move from the US to here – I can’t see ever moving across an ocean again.  If we’d had one more year here, we probably could have had the resources and time to actually buy a place, but there will be at least one more move after this one.