Unpacking is more satisfying for me (granted, the only time I've done that in the past 10 years was my kitchen.) I get to organize instead of the haphazard chaos that was! I get rid of stuff (for some reason, this doesn't work as well when I pack.) Everything gets its proper home, rather than what was available when it arrived.

Next time I move, you are free to throw this in my face.

I suspect I like unpacking more because I hate being packed.

I hate both. I love when I have a place for everything; I hate organizing my space such that there is a space for everything. So there isn't, so it's often a mess.

More than the packing and the unpacking, I am hating the weeding out of the junk. HOW IN THE HECK do we have so much STUFF?

We just went through our collection of VHS tapes. VHS, people and we have a TON.

I am so sorry about your niece, scrappy.

Ugh, scrappy. What a tough situation for your family.

Hard on me, but so much harder on her parents. My poor brother sounds just so TIRED on the phone. They are constantly seesawing between resignation and hope and anxiety and trying to be strong for their other two kids. I know they are just torturing themselves with "what if's" and there is no way not to.

I wish I could do more, but they don't want us out there until they know what is going to happen.

It's so miserable all around. I'll just hope for everyone.

Oy, Kat, I don't think I'm going to make it over to get the ladder. I've only got half the books packed, and books are my goal for the day.

Scrappy, I'm so sorry.

I think unpacking is better, because at least you're on the other side of the trauma. Of course, I only hate change ahead of time. When I'm packing, I'm wondering if I've made a huge mistake. When I'm unpacking, I don't think I have after all.

But really, I just hate how much time the transition takes, between finding the place, packing, and the actual move. I always want to be doing the next thing once I know what it is.