Friday Five: Moving
This week's Friday Five is about moving. I don't enjoy moving. In fact, I don't plan to move again until I get married, whenever that may be. I keep saying I'd like to get out of apartment living and find a rent house, but the fact of the matter is, I won't. Unless rent gets much more ridiculous.
1. How many times have you moved? When was the last time? Um, counting in and out of dorm rooms in college, 7 times.
2. What do you love and hate about moving? I hate the packing, unpacking, lifting, carrying. Hm..pretty much all the physical stuff. I love getting organized and discovering new spaces.
3. Do you do it yourself or hire movers? I've done it both ways. I've also recruited family and friends. Pretty much I try to find others who can do the heavy lifting, because I'm not supposed to.
4. Advice for surviving and thriving during a move? Try to be organized and don't leave off packing until the night before. I also try to have a firm plan about where things need to go. I also learned to have the movers put the big stuff in the new place first--you can use that to stack boxes on afterwards so that you can still see the floor.
5. Are you in the middle of any inner moves, if not outer ones? Yeah, trying to remind myself to simplify things. Not just things that I do, but the way that I think.
Bonus: Share a piece of music/poetry/film/book that expresses something about what moving means to you.
Oh, this is easy. I wrote this poem in high school, and I think it applies to so many different situations.
Things are not as they
teach us--the Earth is hollow;
I have touched the sky.
**To see more posts about "moving" posts, check out this week's Friday Five at RevGalBlogPals.
1. How many times have you moved? When was the last time? Um, counting in and out of dorm rooms in college, 7 times.
2. What do you love and hate about moving? I hate the packing, unpacking, lifting, carrying. Hm..pretty much all the physical stuff. I love getting organized and discovering new spaces.
3. Do you do it yourself or hire movers? I've done it both ways. I've also recruited family and friends. Pretty much I try to find others who can do the heavy lifting, because I'm not supposed to.
4. Advice for surviving and thriving during a move? Try to be organized and don't leave off packing until the night before. I also try to have a firm plan about where things need to go. I also learned to have the movers put the big stuff in the new place first--you can use that to stack boxes on afterwards so that you can still see the floor.
5. Are you in the middle of any inner moves, if not outer ones? Yeah, trying to remind myself to simplify things. Not just things that I do, but the way that I think.
Bonus: Share a piece of music/poetry/film/book that expresses something about what moving means to you.
Oh, this is easy. I wrote this poem in high school, and I think it applies to so many different situations.
Things are not as they
teach us--the Earth is hollow;
I have touched the sky.
**To see more posts about "moving" posts, check out this week's Friday Five at RevGalBlogPals.
Apr 27, 2008, 12:03:00 PM
A great post!
Personally, I have not vowed to never move again, but I have promised myself that I will never take anything with me. Just sell it ALL and start over fresh - that's my new plan for moving ;)