Today has been filled with near misses.  I almost missed my bus this morning.  Then, when I was getting off the bus, an old woman almost through up on me.  At lunch, I almost left my ATM in the ATM (ok, fine, I actually did this, but remembered in time to run back and get the card before somebody took it or the machine ate it.)  On the way home, my bus almost hit a jaywalker.  We ran into a taco shop to get dinner tonight 10 minutes before it closed.  I’m not sure if that all means that today was a really good day or a really bad day.  Opinions?

This Saturday is our 1 year anniversary of moving to Seattle.  It’s also the day we have to move all of our crap to our new home.  If you’re counting, that means that this is the 8th time I’ve moved in 10 years.  I am really over moving.

Even though we’ve techincally had all month to move stuff, we really only started packing this past week, which means that every night this week I’ve spent my nights frantically putting said crap in boxes.

I am not good at putting crap in boxes.  I am extremely slow.  I am easily distracted and too emotionally connected to everything I own.  I get nervous putting things in boxes, because that means that I no longer have access to to those things- even though I know in my head that I’ll be able to start unpacking in just 3 days.

I also am really bad at getting rid of things that I don’t use anymore, or even things that don’t work.  I have an electric tea kettle that has been broken for 5 months that I haven’t thrown away because throwing it away means that it is actually dead and gone.  I really LIKED that electric tea kettle and I keep hoping that if I wait a little longer, I’ll plug it in one more time and it will magically start working again.

I know that none of that makes any logical sense, but these are the things that go through my head.  My head is a fascinating place.

Ugh.  This was much easier when Microsoft paid people to do this for us.