Misc.

So here's how the packing has gone so far.  (Yes I know you didn't ask.  Yes I know you don't care- but I need a break from packing so bad that I'm blogging about packing....  desperate times baby- desperate times!)

In my experience there are 3 main stages to packing....  

The first dozen boxes or more are meticulously packed and you write every single item in the box on the top and on the side along with which room it needs to go into.  You still take showers everyday-  still put on make-up, you still cook nutritious meals from your mostly stocked kitchen.

After a while it gets a little more haphazard- maybe you'll only write on the box the room it was found in- or a vague allusion to it's contents- like Nicole's stuff, or kitchen items.  At this point- showers are at least every other day- make-up is at least on every few days or at least eye-liner.  The meals are starting to get worse and worse as you deplete the supply of good food and move on to the back up stuff that's been in your pantry for so long you don't remember buying it.

Then you get to stage three- usually the last day or two before the big move.  Boxes are now ALL labeled with four sad little letters.  M...I...S...C...  Yup- the dreaded miscellaneous boxes.  Where you just walk around frazzled throwing all the stray items on the ground into boxes too lazy to decide if you even need to keep the item- it just goes in the box.  You're now wondering if that funky smell is you or the bathroom you've neglected since you started packing or maybe it's the baby that's been watching TV 24-hours a day since last weds...  Food- well it's gotten to funky hodge podge meals consisting of random items you're trying to clean out of your fridge and pantry so you don't have to move it.  

Yeah I've totally hit stage 3 baby!  So if you stop by or see me around- please don't judge me- I'm gonna probably look like crap, probably smell a little stale at best, and be frazzled myself...   Not too frazzled- just busy and tired... and so excited there's only a few more days until it's all unpacking- which I will have no deadline and it'll be way less stress....

But I'm finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel...  I am now confident that there is way more stuff packed and ready to move in the garage, then is in my house at this point....  Probably more like 4/5 packed if not more...  So here's to the light at the end of the tunnel!  Hazzah!!!