We’re 95% moved out. Still had to go through the rigamarole of contacting any institution with which I have financial biz, and the USPS, which now requires a $1 fee for forwarding mail. Dafuq? Forwarding mail used to be free, although those postcards you used to be able to get to notify people required first class postage, instead of postcard postage. Most of this nonsense could be done online, but it also took a few phone calls. No matter how you slice it, moving is a giant pain in the ass. Nevermind the times we’ve been so tired after moving a few loads that we decided to eat out, or order for pickup.
The good news is that almost everybody who needs my/our new addy already has it. Anything we missed can be taken care of later.
I had a really good, friendly conversation with my primary financial advisor. She has a vacation house an hour away from us, so she’s sort of familiar with our area.
If Verizon doesn’t deliver our new eqpt. to our new addy tomorrow, when it switches over service as scheduled, I’m going to be really pissed off. I have no problem boxing up the old eqpt., and trotting off to the UPS Store to send it back to them. Not going to do it, though, until I know the new setup in the new house works. I’m funny that way.
I’m not going to Hulk out on anyone, but this whole process of moving is a whole lot more involved than packing and moving boxes and furniture. It’s been so long since we did that, that we’d forgotten.
Still, we’re a-l-m-o-s-t there.
A big move can be extremely stressful, and indeed a giant pain in the ass. But it’s worth all the hassle if it means you’re going to be somewhere you really want to be.
They say that if you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time with typewriters, eventually they’d write the complete works of Shakespeare. Nicky’s work, I’d say 4 monkeys, about an hour and a half at most.