Emptying

  So my energy level has dwindled these last few days with packing and moving. I think my job is so busy and such little help lately, that I come home and have no energy. Then there is that, "always thinking" process, with my brain and it is rarely at peace lately. (sigh here).  My son from Seattle, Derek, and my friend KP have offered to help with the actual moving of goods. Sunday will be the major furniture to the storage unit and the new place. I have my walk through lined up for after work, on Monday. I am trying to figure out a few final details. It will be nice when this move is done and I resettle into a new space, with a roomie and other projects to work on. I need to write the next newsletter for the Toastmaster Club. Crap, I have to give a speech Tuesday at the meeting. Don't even have a title, outline or idea of what I will present. My topic is "To Inform". Hmmm...
  My brother from Wisconsin was in town last weekend. While playing dominoes with my two brothers and mom after work last Monday evening, my brother was talking about how much work they have done with ridding her household of stuff. He made a comment that it would be ready by December. December? So six months has turned into six weeks as a targeted move. Really? Really?  Tom plans on flying back when they are ready and flying back to Wisconsin with mom, and another brother will fly to Washington to drive back to the Midwest with my brother, George. Guess they planned it out in two days. My mom will stay with a sister until a facility space opens up for her. So there we go. Maybe I should move to Texas by my daughter. She'd love that.
  Did I write yet, that she, (my daughter), wants to fly me and her two brothers back to Houston around Christmas? Can you believe that? It will likely be after the actual holiday. It is amazing she wants to do that and can afford that. Bless her heart. (smile here.) I hope it works that way, but if so, I need to know ASAP to request the time off from work.
  It is very late and I tried sleeping, but am restless and cannot wind all the way down. That is why I am writing. I hope it helps empty my brain.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I sometime think if we didn't have a few problems to work on and a few decisions to make, life might get damn boring. Of course I could be whacky in the head.
October 29, 2011 at 10:51 AM
kden said…
I'm sure it feels pretty crazy now, but in just a few short weeks, you'll be relaxing in your new place with all this behind you.
October 29, 2011 at 2:43 PM
john bain said…
I hope everything goes well for you. Not much wonder you can't sleep. Too much going on.
October 29, 2011 at 4:08 PM
Anonymous said…
Time marches on, life changes for both us and those around us. Sometime we're high stepping, sometime we get out of step. We're never along for the ride.
October 30, 2011 at 9:06 AM
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