The house is done. I realize it has been several months since I last posted, and as you can see, the house is done. The lawn is not in, the final grading is not done, but that will be happening in May. The builder was supposed to have this house finished in November, but didn't have it "done" until January. And, even then, there were several things that needed to be finished yet. As of today, we are still waiting for two things to happen. And this is what people hate about building. I will not build again. It has been stressful, worrying, perplexing, aggravating, and sometimes, absolutely, astoundingly, head-scratchingly, stupid. We were at the house almost every single day, and even still stupid, and more likely, apathetic, mistakes occurred. Neither Scott nor I are experts at building a house, which is why we hired a builder. So it's amazing to me that we were able to figure things out that the "experts" either couldn't, or didn't, want to. Head-shaking perplexing...
But, as much as building was stressful, moving is proving to be its better, more insidious, champion. I will start out by saying we have a lot of stuff. Scott and I have varied interests, and that is reflected in the amount of boxes we are trying to move after 24 years at our current house. I severely underestimated how long it takes to pack a packed room. We've postponed the movers once because we weren't ready, and are really trying to get everything boxed by the time they show up in a month. Just our books alone (seven bookcases) are enough to make me go running into the night.
I think that people should sort through their stuff every five years just to avoid the giant clean-out that happens when you move. I've taken a huge car-load of stuff to donation center, and while my closet is stunningly perfect now, I know that it won't last long.
But, what is really perplexing to us, is why we suck at moving? I keep thinking we should have had this done in a day, but in reality it is going to take much, much longer. What are we doing wrong? We've had a do-it-yourself moving truck three times now, and we're still not done! I just don't get it. We've both resigned ourselves to dealing with a year of moving, and we'll need to put our old house on the market with stuff in it, I guess. Maybe if we have a hard deadline, that will get us to move our stuff.
I'm going to need moving recovery after this. I'd rather build again, than move again. And, with that, I have to go make friends with some tape and a box. Happy moving, my moving friends, I hope your move is going better.
