Moving and Clean Slates

Y'all. I am a little too excited about moving.

I love Oxford, I love my job, but it is time to live somewhere else. And now that we've decided on Seattle, and started making serious plans, I am soooo ready! Aaron found a video about all the great stuff in Seattle, thanks to Expedia, and after watching it (twice), I want to be there and do everything. So I've made Seattle my computer background.

If you hadn't already figured this out, I'm a planner. Big time. It's very frustrating to me that people don't already know which apartments will be available in August--I want to plan 2 and a half months ahead!

Yes, I have asthma, and yes, I Googled the best
cities for people with asthma.

I'm also just really excited about the opportunity for a clean slate. New place to live, new people to meet, new jobs to find (and get!), and, we've decided, new furniture! It hadn't even occurred to us not to rent a U-Haul or use PODS or something to move all our stuff across the country. When talking to my Aunt Genie (yes I'm named for her) about prices, she finally stopped me and said, "Is the stuff that you have worth $1,500 or $2,000 plus the hassle? Or could you just sell it and buy new stuff when you get there?"

Honestly, her suggestion kind of blew my mind. How had this never occurred to me? Well, probably because we are all pretty attached to our stuff, and when we picture new apartments and homes, we imagine the stuff we have going into them. But we are 25, with no kids and no expensive furniture; why should we bother with the expense and difficulty of moving everything? We were all planning to leave a lot of our books in my mom's attic (because we just assume we won't have space for them and the bookcases). I'm pretty sure we can find another $90 couch. And my dresser, which I've moved to three different living locations now, is too small and has had a broken drawer all four years. It's probably easily fixed, but I sure as hell haven't fixed it. So why do I still have it at all?

So now we begin the process of cleaning everything out. For those of you who live in my area, be prepared: we'll be selling some good (and some just okay) furniture at the end of the summer. And this process is really exciting to me. For one thing, it gives me an outlet to focus my excited moving energy while I'm waiting for time to move a little faster so I can get serious about apartment hunting. Plus, it feels really good to finally let go of a lot of the stuff I've been carrying around with me for years.

Books I put aside to keep without taking,
by storing them in Mom's attic

This is a step on the way to not becoming a hoarder. That's always a good step to take.














I will, however, miss this beautiful catalpa tree from the Ole Miss campus.

I just wanted to share this awesome picture.