TRANSITION!

TRANSITION!! "A Kind of Math!"

It's happening now and it's happening fast!... Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

AS IN Garage Sale

AS IN Lots of Gas and Moving Cost

AS IN Headaches, Places, Journeys

AS IN What to Take and What to Send Elsewhere

All the rummaging around and all the driving to and from places and all the forwarding and the setting up of new addresses and cutting off of old services! It's always more than you anticipated, Shall I hang on to that bedspread that I just love even though I don't use a queen bed any more? How in the world can I afford to pay $60 per fill up? Would using the ferry be cheaper?

The stuff: where to stash it? The precious things: how to get them there safely? The measuring cups, are they mine or do they belong to my house-buddy who is moving in another direction? The cat has to go wherever I go, and he doesn't like it. I would like to move things in before there is space available. What's the most efficient way to move a whole shop?

So it's a bevy of boxes in the hallways and a stack of things that have to be de-boxed before they are re-boxed. My housemate and I have lived in the same spaces for about three years now and our pots and pans and irons and tables and chairs, etc., have become intermingled so well I cannot always remember what belongs to whom! We are not combative at all about this, but "borrowing" gets muddy after a while. We bargain when we run into a muddy decision, and thank goodness she is the kind of housemate who doesn't hyperventilate about plain old stuff...it's okay if I hang on to this and I'm happy to give her something of mine that she likes to use. We will always be friends, and there is always Fed Ex if we need to return something. It's not even that far we are moving from one another, and we plan to get together after the move anyway, and hopefully eventually share rent on a nice place in a year or so. But what a lot of this has to happen, and it's exhausting to the point where throwing the whole business out sounds good. Well, donating it, at least. The thing is not to donate it in a place where someone who has given it to you will find it again at the local Goodwill. So, take it with you and donate it at wherever it is you are going. Another thing to tote around.

I lost the cat carrier a short time ago, and so I made a packing box into a stand-in carrier so I could take the already traumatized beast with me. He is very unhappy when I leave him overnight, and he is not happy traveling to strange places either. So taking him at least means that he can expect that I will be there, wherever we are, and hopefully that is comforting. The make-shift box yielded this picture of KCQ the Traveling Cat.

BY JULY WE SHOULD BE FINISHED WITH THE MOVING OUT PART... AND DEALING THEN WITH THE MOVING IN. The Cat and I will be very very glad when it's over!