The Countdown to Confusion

The countdown has begun...In 15 days I will leave Connecticut behind and return to being a resident of the great, sunny state of Florida! It has been 9 years since I have lived in Florida, where I basically grew up.

I can't wait to be closer to my family, closer to friends I've missed for years and with a home that has plenty of room for my newer friends to come down and visit us! We are both so excited about starting a life in our new town and being in our big, beautiful, brand new house. This is all incredibly new to Tom. He's never lived in Florida, he's never lived in a brand new house that nobody else has ever lived in, he's never experienced a move with MOVERS, he's staying behind in Connecticut to finish up selling his bread route, he will be staying with some friends of ours (THANKS guys-we'll be ever-greatful).

This weekend starts about 10 days worth of get-togethers, goodbye dinners, events, work and Junior League transitions, etc. Things will be crazy. To top it all off---movers SUCK! We had originally gotten quotes from movers, decent quotes (surprisingly so) and now that the survey's have been done, of course the quotes have gone up--almost by an additional 30%--um, HELLO!?! Crazy, just crazy!

We apparently have somewhere between 10,000 and 13,000 pounds of "stuff"; including a television that requires someone to CRATE it, a riding lawn mower, which we don't need and 'extra boxes/packing material' because we have a lot of breakables---sorry everything we own isn't plastic?? Jeez!

Also, there are transportation 'issues'. I have a company car, at first I was leaving the company car here for my replacement and getting a new company car in FL...makes sense, it's a company move---but then I was supposed to DRIVE my company car 1023 miles to Florida...then trade it for the new car (um??), NOW I am back to flying (with the new dog-a whole other issue) on the day of the walk-through and closing and renting a car when I get to the airport and will then be in the rental car until my new company car is delivered (8 weeks or so).

What am I doing with the dog at the closing of the house you ask? Well, great question, I didn't think of it until today-and I suppose she's going to wait in the car-since I don't have anywhere else to put her.

Ya know-everyone says moving sucks...I didn't ever understand until today--but guess what?

Moving Sucks!!