a stoned age

More moving news

We’ve moved up the move date, again.   We are leaving at the end of May.  Probably May 28.  I’m nervous and excited.  Can we get all our shit together in two and a half months?  I’ll be reserving the truck next week and then start packing I guess.  I’ll start with my books and any non-essential stuff.  Also, I’ll probably go through all my clothes and start weeding out things I have no use for anymore (size 4 jeans anyone?)  I think I might have a wee sidewalk sale thing to try to unload all the unwanted stuff.  Okay, off to plan!

the move

Well, I'm starting to ever so slightly freak out about our upcoming move back to Minneapolis.  First, we moved the date of the move up to August.  Which is a good thing except that, goddamn, August will be here before we know it! 

Secondly, my biggest concern right now, besides, of course, having enough money to do all this, is how are we going to get our stuff, our cats and ourselves back to Minneapolis? The moving truck is spendy but we definitely need to get one since I'm not replacing all of our stuff, I love my cal king too much!  Do I rent a car to get me, the kid and the cats back?  or do I buy us plane tickets?

Finally, the whole packing and cleaning stuff is just yuck.  and I'll have a 20 month old to "help" me.  And the final day we are here, how is that going to work.  We get the truck in the morning, block traffic on the street, load it up and then what do I do?  If I fly, how do I know what time to book my flight?  I think I'd want to leave the same day but I guess I could stay in a hotel near the airport with kid and cats and leave the next day in case the loading of the truck takes forever or something.  If I end up driving in a rental, that's easy, I'll just leave with the truck.   

I wouldn't mind the drive, I love road trips and I think I can get my sister and mom and nephew to join me on the trip.  But, in August, I could never leave the cats in the car while we ate. 

and finally finally, everything is FREAKING expensive. Car rental $500+ (and gas prices are INSANE and we'd need to stay in motels each night and eat), one way plane tickets $200-$400, rental truck $1500-$2000.  Plus I'd actually like to fly out to Mpls before we move to secure an apt/duplex so there is another $600-$800.

/freak out