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Moving, part 1 | |
November 12th, 2018 | |
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The next few weeks will be hectic. On Sunday the family begins our | |
two week family visitation excursion. We head to Raleigh, North | |
Carolina first to visit my wife's best friend for a couple days. | |
Then we head to Charlotte to see her family, my best friend, and | |
have a massive Thanksgiving dinner (usually ~50 people). We have | |
a day or two to recover and hang out with her family then we head | |
to Myrtle Beach to see my parents. We'll spend a second | |
Thanksgiving dinner with them (and get even fatter) before moving | |
over to a beach condo for the rest of the week to finally relax. | |
The beach condo is great. It's one of my happy places, at least at | |
night, and this far off-season it's very quiet. Last year I got | |
a lot of writing done, and I'm hoping for more of the same this | |
time around. It's also a time to dive deep into my Icelandic | |
studies and really pound in some hours. It's been going well, but | |
I wish I could dedicate more time each day. | |
When we return home the house will be mostly packed and | |
disassembled. We'll crash one night all together in the master | |
bedroom, and then the movers arrive. Half of our stuff has been | |
trimmed, sold, given away or donated. Of the remaining things, | |
some will move to our new apartment and the rest goes into | |
storage. That storage will eventually go to Iceland in July or | |
into long-term storage down in Charlotte. Hopefully we'll be able | |
to trim a bit before then, though. | |
Once we spend a few days moving in and getting settled, we settle | |
on the sale of the house. With that clear I'll have about a week | |
before the Christmas holiday hits. Flash, bang, New Years! | |
I did say things are hectic, right? | |
Once we're clear of the new year the hard-core planning for the | |
Iceland move begins in earnest. I forsee a binder. |