The Countdown

July 1st.  Already.  This is the month of the 'move.' 

Making lists is efficient.  Productive.  It feels great crossing things off.  There is the NH list and there is the NC list.  The phone rings.  My professor friend from WCU wants to meet for dinner this week.  But when?  Scramble, scramble.  Tuesday night it is.  She's a Mainer.  Wrote me the nicest lil note welcoming me here.  She loves Maine!  She has a house there, which by-the-way is a mess she says.  She hasn't been there for nearly two years.  Much to do.  Tomorrow night is Linda's birthday dinner.  I am taking her out.  I met her last summer.  Amazing woman.  Will probably retire to South America.

Making lists is like writing this blog today.  One notation on the list diverts me somewhere else.  To create yet another pile for the move to the apartment soon.  I will have piles in NC, too. 

Pile 1:  Teen Challenge of the Smokies

Pile 2: Recycling Center

Pile 3:  Swap shop in Dillsboro, a.k.a. the Dillsboro Recycling Center

I hope there isn't a fourth pile. 

Even wrote a note to a friend asking her to pick up some stuff for me.  I have trouble, lots of trouble asking for help.  I need a bit of help to pull this off.  My kids want to come and help but it is so far for them.  I told them I could do this myself.  My daughter will help me with the receiving of furnishings in NH. My son will help when he comes to visit next month.

I think I will drive back to NC in February.  Maybe stay until April.  Enjoy early springs and the bulbs.  Gosh, I'll miss that.  Note to self to move all the porch furniture inside.  It will fill the otherwise soon-to-be empty areas.  Imagine four rockers in my house. What will I do with the child rockers? 

After this is sorted out, packed and moved I'll probably come back in the spring.  More sorting.  Then I will drive back to NH in time for my daughter's birthday in May.  It will be nice to return to NH   after 'our'  New England spring thaw. I expect to depart this time of year EVERY year.  But that is another blog.  So I shall spend my daughter's birthday with her - first time since she graduated high school and left for college. That means a lot to me.

So much runs through this head.  Will I get everything done in time?  Will I be upright after moving things around. I have a few herniated disc so this is always a challenge.   I have to replace the furniture because if I do not the movers may move the wrong things.  They fan out in squads on a move like this. They will pack anything near by. I wish there were two of me.

The apartment will have a coastal theme.  Found an area rug I am buying for the living room. I am already missing my five plants.  My friend will take good care of them.   Giving plants is the best!

Back to the coastal theme.  I already have one rug for the master bedroom in NC.  I hope to find one for the guest bedroom.  That is probably where I will place the flat screen tv - on the wall.  I am getting more excited.