*^#@$^&* Moving @%*(&%$#

Another day moving. Jaysus, this is never going to end. What was I thinking?

We did, however, get 99% of everything out of the old house! There are only a couple tiny things left, and some cleaning products (which we'll need there). Now, there is a ton of garbage, stuff that's just going to go away. I've finally relented and acquiesced ... I'm going to have to rent a dumpster. I didn't want to, but there's no choice. There is too much flat-out garbage left there, and I have no other way to get rid of it.

I do wish that I'd have known I was going to end up renting a dumpster 2 weeks ago ... a lot of that stuff would never have gotten moved. There was some borderline stuff that I wasn't really sure I wanted, but at the time I didn't know what the hell I was going to do with if I didn't take it. So I thought, I'll just take it now, and deal with it later. Not the wisest choice I ever made.

Oh well ... live and learn. I know I'll never do this again. If - when - we eventually move from here, the whole move is going to go very, very differently. But I don't have to worry about that for a long, long time.

And for now, the inside of the old house is almost done. We just have to go back and clean (ugh - but not horrible).

The outside's another story. The garage and the porch are still quite a disaster, and I didn't get the other outside stuff I wanted yet (plants, solar lights, a gate my dad built). But ... for now, I can breathe a sigh of relief about the inside, anyway. Umm, mostly.

There is one piece of good news about all this. I anticipated being really sad about leaving the old house. I had so much history there, especially with my dad. But this freaking, grueling, torturous disaster of a move has irradiated any nostalgic feelings right out of me. I think I will be thrilled beyond the telling of it when I can leave that place for the last time, and know I never have to see it again.

Kinda sad ... it's not the house's fault I buggered up the move so bad. It was a good house for me. But right now I'm just not feeling the love.

We're not going to talk about the condition of the new house just now.