Today I spent a large portion of the day packing my kitchen to move.\u00a0 I HATE packing the kitchen or anything else that requires individual wrapping.\u00a0 It is tedious, time consuming and it makes my head and back hurt.\u00a0 Blech.<\/p>\n
Not only am I packing but I am also clearing out and sorting.\u00a0 The clearing out is absolutely necessary and once it is done I always feel really good.\u00a0 That being said, sometimes it is easier to just put stuff in a box that you know<\/em> you don’t need and pretend you don’t realize what you’re doing.\u00a0 I’ve done that before.\u00a0 I always regret it because then you realize that your house is full of crap.\u00a0 Junk.\u00a0 Things that no longer hold any value to you.\u00a0 Things that spend their existence taking up space.\u00a0 I’ve never even come close to being a hoarder but I have an idea of how it starts.\u00a0 You rationalize the “need” to keep something forever even though you’ll never use it.\u00a0 Then you come with a reason to keep the item next to the first item.\u00a0 Before you know it, you’re a hoarder and you end up on a Dr. Phil special.\u00a0 Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m being dramatic.\u00a0 But it has to start somewhere, right?<\/p>\n The other objective in our packing is sorting.\u00a0 We need to sort the things we absolutely must have to live and the things we can do without for a couple of months.\u00a0 To understand this, I need to provide a little background….<\/p>\n Today was my husband’s last day of college.\u00a0 For the second time.\u00a0 The first time was 15 years ago.\u00a0 He entered college right after high school.\u00a0 Three years later he was in a difficult personal situation and got a job offer with a good salary.\u00a0 Like any twenty-something would, he took the job and never got his degree.\u00a0 Fifteen years later his VP job ended unexpectedly and we got the opportunity for him to come back to school and finish that final year of college.\u00a0 He has done extremely well despite being the “old man on campus” and the year has flown by.<\/p>\n Now the job hunt is on.\u00a0 It has been going on behind the scenes since March\/April but now our focus is shifting to the job hunt full time.\u00a0 Of course, nothing for us goes easily.\u00a0 Our current landlord is requiring a long lease renewal with no early termination clause.\u00a0 Therefore, we are moving to an apartment with flexible terms until Robert finds a job.\u00a0 Hopefully that won’t take long.\u00a0 Keep your fingers crossed.<\/p>\n Going through the loss of a job, returning to college married with 3 children and depending on the kindness of others to make it all work has taken a toll on us.\u00a0 We are emotionally and physically exhausted.\u00a0 Our marriage is as solid as a rock and like all difficulties we have faced in the past, this has brought us closer.\u00a0 But it has been humbling.\u00a0 It has also made us reassess the things that are important in life. \u00a0For the moment, however, the most pressing thing is making this move happen….<\/p>\n You can dump clothes in a box.\u00a0 Stuffed animals too.\u00a0 Dishes?\u00a0 Not so much.\u00a0 Blech……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I spent a large portion of the day packing my kitchen to move.\u00a0 I HATE packing the kitchen or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}