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