procrastinating

to be so excited and so impatient for my move, i'm running up against an unexpected thread of procrastination in myself. admittedly, i'm a procrastinator. i do my best work at the 11th hour. but with only four weeks left before moving day and one and a half of them spent out of town - i'm perplexed to be fighting this disruly personality trait.

i did pack two boxes today. the first two. and i filled a cabinet in my kitchen with things for the garage sale. but i'm not living in a home of excess. i purged and thinned a few months ago in preparation for the house to go on the market. and so when i open a cabinet or closet and think 'i'll just pack this all up' i hesitate. i think, 'but i'm going to use that..' or 'i'm going to want to wear that...' and suddenly the four, well technically two and a half, weeks until moving day seem like a year. 'how will i ever survive without my pizza pan?!'

we're leaving for the second of our three back to back vacations on sunday. i haven't packed for that either. it's a beach trip so it won't be hard to pack for. bathing suits, sun dresses, sandals. done. the moving truck on july 1st is another story.

when i moved into this house and bought the furniture that is now here i proclaimed that i'd never move myself again. i swore 'no more u-hauls' for me. this furniture is too damn heavy and the stairs too treacherous. and when i called and booked the mover this week, i felt all grown up. but now i'm looking around and thinking things like, 'do i have to put that in a box?' because i know that when i've packed moving trucks in the past, many things just 'fit in'. you know, 'between the legs of that chair i can fit this hat box or those dumbbells.' but it seems like all the rules are changed now.

sigh

it's all going to be over in four short weeks. and when i'm all moved in, to the house on yorkshire road, the dread of packing will be well behind me. and the thrill of unpacking and setting up our new home will be upon me.

d: speed and efficiency when the procrastination passes
b: i packed two boxes!
g: purging and thinning months ago.