Wow. Things are happening fast. It took me 5 months to find the house that we are currently renting. So when my hubby and I decided (my idea) to move into a bigger house and have his mom move in with us (her health is not doing well, and she really needs to not be living on her own anymore), I figured it would take a while to find a house that was big enough and cheap enough to fulfill our needs. NOPE. One.Day. It took one day to find a house that will be, if not perfect, sufficient for what we need. We've signed the lease and are moving at the end of this week. Translation: I have less than a week to pack up my entire household and my mother-in-law's household and get them moved to a new place. All while working on the incorporation and tax exemption for my parent's new nonprofit, chairing two committees and participating in a third committee for the board of directors of my son's school (OOPS! missed an 11:30 meeting with the fundraising committee today!) and (hopefully) starting remicade. I am an idiot. I should voluntarily commit myself to keep me from jumping in and volunteering to do more stuff I no longer have the energy, the capacity, and/or the mental acuity to do. Do they have anti-volunteer medication available? Maybe a good, high dose of Thorazine to keep me sedentary and zombie-like. I think I would make a terrific zombie.
Dear Tmbrwolf329: Kudos to you! Just the thought of the move by itself tires me out ...lol ... I am so glad you have energy to tackle these things right now. I know I am beating a dead horse, but try to pace yourself, accept help and get lots of rest! Sending prayers your way! Hugs, Dee
I used to have that same issue with volunteering for too much / having too much on my plate. It was a lot of work to learn how to find balance! I LOVE packing - I would so help you out if I could!
Crikey girl! Give yourself a break! Though I can't speak. I work full time, am the current President of our local Lioness Club, have just agreed to remain District Lioness Chairman of Lionesses for a 3rd term. Up until the end of last year I as running a week long music festival.
At some point something has to give and I decided that regardless of my passion I had to be able to give time within the limits of this damned diagnosis. I decided last year the the festival week was just too much strain on my physically and after 16 years pulled the pin. I am going to miss it, but I need to concentrate on things I can do which don't affect me as much. I hope you can manage to find that balance. Good luck with the move and I hope you have lots of help.
I love your fortitude ---every single day you give me reason to keep fighting this dumb disease. you are
AWESOME and I want everyone in the world to know it!!!! No they do not have anti- volunteer meds. If they did, neither you nor I would be where we are today and I suspect neither would most of us LOL
Thanks everybody. I overdid it yesterday. I know this by my knees' and back's inability to stop spasming and feeling like shards of glass grinding away every time I move. Spent a good part of today in bed (crying, to be completely honest) and feeling totally sorry for myself. But I'm over it now. Unfortunately it also means I lost an entire day of packing to this stupid disease. So now, instead of feeling like we are sailing through the rest of the move, I'm back in panic mode. CRAP!
Hubby got on the ball and called to move our utilities to our new house effective Feb 3, and called his daughter to verify that she and her boyfriend will be here Friday night to help with the move. Thankfully, the grandkids are with their biological father for the weekend, so we won't have little munchkins under foot while we are hauling boxes and furniture. Now if I can just get him to call his nephews to see if they would help, we would be in pretty good shape for the physical part of the move. Just gotta finish getting stuff into boxes. Guess I'll do that tomorrow (maybe one or two tonight - but this time I'll leave them where they lay and not pick them up and put them in the piles with the other boxes....pretty sure that's what blew my back and knees out).
Nym...if you were here, I'd totally invite you over to sit around with me and drink iced tea while we watch all the minions load the boxes into the vehicles. :)
CL - you know I love ya. I'm not awesome, I'm just me. YOU are the awesome one! And you would be invited to watch the minions with Nym and I also!
Becstar and Tootles - I WISH I had the energy for this move...but I don't have a lot of choice in the move or the timing at this point, so I'm faking it till I make it. Momma always told me that was the secret to life...shoot...lets have a party. We'll all sit around sipping iced tea (fake mimosas?) watching everyone else work :)
Thank you guys so much. You make this struggle worthwhile.
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have fun watching the minions. nighty night... :~
CL - sorry about last night. When you called back (again), I had already plugged the phone in, taken my nightly handful of pills and gone to bed. It was a miserable day yesterday. I'll call you later on once I've gotten a few more boxes packed today.
Hey kiddo. I know you are so very busy just wanted you to know I was thinking about you and hoping all is going well at your new address. Catch up with us when you can . we all are dying for the scoop on the new digs. LOL XXXX