Not my favorite day...(Part 2)

Part 1.

It's 7:20 a.m. on Tuesday morning (I've been up for an hour and slept a whopping 3 and half hours last night!). Monday was a success in that it was not nearly as terrible as I had expected it to be and much of it was quite enjoyable.

Today, in a sense, is already a success in that I showered and put on clean clothes. I have moved nine times ("nine times!") in the past ten years. One thing I have learned about myself is that I tend to stop showering a day or two (or six!) out. There's something about creating new laundry when I'm trying to pack up everything I own that I can't get my head around. So I pick an outfit (usually jeans and a T-shirt) and I stick with it. But this morning, I showered, so the day is already a success!

The movers are due at 9am and I'm going to box up the last of the toiletries and tin foil and wait for them to arrive.

One more thing about yesterday: right now I think the best thing about being married is being able to take a break from packing at 2 a.m. to take a walk around the block with your husband and splitting a sub ("Girl's Night Out" from Subs Conscious on Amsterdam) before collapsing into bed. I'm sure there are other great things about being married, but right now, that one seems like the best.

**UPDATE**
11:15am: The movers are here; they arrvied at 9:30a.m. They are actually close to done. I made the mistake of watching them pack up my grandmother's Art Deco bedroom set. After that I hid in the bathroom for a bit and cried. Oh Well. I need to start studying Buddhism to learn some lessons about impermanence and living with less. I just have too much stuff that means too much to me. Really, what more do I need than my husband and my cats...and my iBook...and my iPod...and my digital camera? Yeah, I have a lot to learn.

**UPDATE**
3pm: The movers are long gone. We shipped three boxes of "essentials" ahead of us so that we won't have to wait the estimated two weeks that it will take for the rest of the stuff to arrive. The following things still need to be done by 1pm tomorrow:
1. Clean the apartment.
2. Have a walk through with the head of housing.
3. Return the cable box, remote and modem.
4. Turn the many, many coins that we have collected over the years into "real money," because coins are really heavy!
5. Go to the Mets/Pirates game tonight!
We're almost there!