Weeks of planning, discussing, and cussing, we had a moving plan. In theory anyway. Half our stuff would go into storage. Homejoy would come in and clean after the movers leave. Our home would be staged for photography and then for the open houses - all while we were on one of our trips out of town. Home would be sold by the time we got back from Houston.
Of course, what's nice in theory doesn't always work in practice.
The moving company charges nearly a $1000 for the additional move/storage. A smaller company could do our move but the items in that storage won't be insured by the other moving company during the official move. After some hemming and hawing and multiple discussions with our realtor, we decided to go ahead with the cheaper mover since the stuff going is covered by our own insurance and is not anything we can't live without.
Next obstacle. Bay Bridge will be closed during some of this so Homejoy has to show up an hour or so after the movers. And all of this is happening the day before we go to Atlanta for Dragon*Con. It's okay...we'll sort our stuff to make it easier for the movers and have the cleaners focus on the rooms that are done or won't be touched by the movers.
Next obstacle. Pam had our spare keys. We thought she had dropped them off with us the other weekend but it turns out...wrong keys. She's mailing them to us. In the meantime, the realtor has Eric's set.
I won't have a panic attack...I won't have a panic attack.
Eric had some stressy moments this weekend. Hard to blame him, his travel schedule is insane. Much of this will fall to me. Still...I must admit I come super close to throttling him when he suggests delaying anything. I have to remind him that the further we delay...the closer we get to the holidays. "Rip the bandaid off, Eric. You're making it worse," I tell him.
Today we took down personal items and I almost started to cry. Without our artwork, without our personal pieces, this place is no longer home. Moving is suddenly more real. Why can't we just load up our condo onto a truck and ship it to Houston??
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