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I Am An Idiot
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BitterEpiphany
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13 February 2012
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So, it will come as no surprise to anyone who follows me on twitter or follows my personal blog that I'm in the process of moving. Strictly speaking, I'm actually in the process of packing because I don't get the keys to the new place until the first of March but I'll be damned if, right now, this doesn't feel like the hard part.
I work in a huge office and I've been collecting the boxes from 8-1/2 x 11 paper for a little over a month now, two at a time, three days a week and, up to now, box mountain has just been growing in the corner. I should give myself the credit that is due - I packed a box of DVD's and video games last week and yesterday I started wrapping up some breakables from one of my bookshelves because I found a stack of newsprint laying around but, other than that, I haven't done anything. Mostly, it's because I'm a pretty organized thinker. I leave for Europe about two and a half weeks after I move and I'm terrified of trying to find my travel toothbrush amidst another, more disorganized box mountain made by haphazardly throwing things together. (Never mind that that's exactly what will happen if I keep ignoring my packing responsibility.)
In my mind, what I want to do is pack a box of, for example, painting paraphernalia - brushes, dishes, loose acrylics, watercolors, etc... - label it neatly and put it in the corner to be moved. The problem is that when it comes time to find a box of painting things, I can't. The brushes are in a cup on the coffee table, there's a tube of white acrylic on my desk, a crate of random acrylics on the bookshelf and I have no earthly idea where I left the oils. To find them, I have to sift through mountains of other crap (and yes, Internet, it's really just crap) that it's all buried under.
Aside from the really obvious realization that I need more storage space - hello, moving! - I've been really struggling on what to do. Until, that is, this afternoon when I had the epiphany that I could label and line up the boxes on the floor and just start putting things in the right box.
It's taken me like a month and a ton of freak-outs to figure out what every six year old knows. Sometimes, they key really is to just take it one step at a time.
I'm off to pack the contents of my coffee table now
I work in a huge office and I've been collecting the boxes from 8-1/2 x 11 paper for a little over a month now, two at a time, three days a week and, up to now, box mountain has just been growing in the corner. I should give myself the credit that is due - I packed a box of DVD's and video games last week and yesterday I started wrapping up some breakables from one of my bookshelves because I found a stack of newsprint laying around but, other than that, I haven't done anything. Mostly, it's because I'm a pretty organized thinker. I leave for Europe about two and a half weeks after I move and I'm terrified of trying to find my travel toothbrush amidst another, more disorganized box mountain made by haphazardly throwing things together. (Never mind that that's exactly what will happen if I keep ignoring my packing responsibility.)
In my mind, what I want to do is pack a box of, for example, painting paraphernalia - brushes, dishes, loose acrylics, watercolors, etc... - label it neatly and put it in the corner to be moved. The problem is that when it comes time to find a box of painting things, I can't. The brushes are in a cup on the coffee table, there's a tube of white acrylic on my desk, a crate of random acrylics on the bookshelf and I have no earthly idea where I left the oils. To find them, I have to sift through mountains of other crap (and yes, Internet, it's really just crap) that it's all buried under.
Aside from the really obvious realization that I need more storage space - hello, moving! - I've been really struggling on what to do. Until, that is, this afternoon when I had the epiphany that I could label and line up the boxes on the floor and just start putting things in the right box.
It's taken me like a month and a ton of freak-outs to figure out what every six year old knows. Sometimes, they key really is to just take it one step at a time.
I'm off to pack the contents of my coffee table now
