It is done.\u00a0 We are moved.\u00a0 Not unpacked and put away…just moved.<\/p>\n
It has been a long week.\u00a0 Robert took his last final to finish his year back in school on Tuesday.\u00a0 He started moving boxes of non-essentials to the mini storage that afternoon while I stayed home and packed.\u00a0 More of the same Wednesday and Thursday.\u00a0 By the time my brother showed up with his truck on Friday to move furniture, we were already tired.\u00a0 Moving in your 30s is a lot different than moving in your 20s!<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, we made the last trip and scrubbed our old place clean today.\u00a0 All that’s left is to turn in the keys in the morning.\u00a0 Then focus shifts to unpacking and organizing.<\/p>\n
Moving is hard yet cathartic.\u00a0 When you move something you really don’t need (but secretly have some weird attachment to) enough times, eventually you will get rid of it.\u00a0 In the donation bag this time?\u00a0 My Birkenstock clogs.\u00a0 I have had them since high school.\u00a0 I wore them almost every day from the day I got them all the way through my third year of college.\u00a0 They are perfectly molded to my feet and somehow they do not smell like shoes of their vintage usually smell.\u00a0 These shoes bring back many memories of my time as a teenager and young adult.\u00a0 They remind me of dear friends and all the time we spent together.\u00a0 They took me everywhere I wanted to go with no complaint.\u00a0 They never made my feet hurt.\u00a0 They are still in good shape.\u00a0 But I have only worn them a handful of times in the past 8 years.\u00a0 Sometime after that third year of college, I realized that they actually DO look like baked potatoes on my feet.\u00a0 I have some friends who can still pull them off.\u00a0 My friend Susan wears them all the time and they look perfectly normal on her.\u00a0 On me?\u00a0 Slow boats to China.<\/p>\n
So, with my birks on their way to the mission donation box with various and sundry unneeded items, I am ready to move on to the next adventure!\u00a0 Unfortunately, that would be the kitchen……\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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