I'm just convinced I'm screwing something up. And I probably will and it won't be the end of the world. But my apartment is out of order and I've got to make it more so and I am just so totally out of my comfort zone and don't even have my cave to crawl into. I don't like transitions at all.

I'm sure you know that moving is on the short list of traumatic events, right? So it's not like you're just crazy.

I'm sure you know that moving is on the short list of traumatic events, right? So it's not like you're just crazy.

Srsly. As much as I hate living in Jax, the thought of moving sends unmentionable fear shivering down my spine.

What Jesse Said. 6 months from now, this will seem like a distant memory. YOu just have to get to that point without your head exploding.

And I probably will and it won't be the end of the world.

It will not be the end of the world. Get yourself and your cats to the new place. Everything else will be okay.

6 months from now I hope traumatic amnesia will have set in. 6 months from now, I'll probably have some homeowner disaster to cope with. Next 6 months will be rough. Hell, the next year.

I like stable. I like boring. I like routines. I'm a homebody. I just signed up for NONE of that at the craziest time work and private life. But at least I don't have love life drama. Cause I don't got one, thank god.

Basically, I've looked at all the things that would make me crazy and unsettled. And checked all of the above. @@

falls over but I'm already lying down

Keep in mind, I'm the one who has cried and melted down every time I've bought a car, from stress. USED car. Under 8K. And I'm buying a house. Haven't cried yet. But then, my skin has been crawling since March 7. So maybe that makes up for it.

Still haven't found that damned other bracket.

My realtor just called after I'd sent her an email asking all sorts of panicky (OMG utilities when? Verizon when? I'm a nutcase.) She's so awesome.

And just think: Once you've done this, you never have to move again!

6 months from now I hope traumatic amnesia will have set in. 6 months from now, I'll probably have some homeowner disaster to cope with. Next 6 months will be rough. Hell, the next year.

Sara, you'll get through. The house buying and moving is all action, you just put your head down and push through. (when we moved it was just about the craziest time I've ever had in my professional life.)

Tom is very much like you WRT stability and routines and the easiest thing to get through it was to kind of go on autopilot. The *only* thing to do, more like.

I will say as a caveat that about 6 months after we moved, once all the excitement died down, Tom started having serious anxiety attacks, which finally got him back in therapy and back on the prescriptions. It was the goddamn rain and the flooding basement I tell you what. But something was gonna trigger it with his brain chemistry + personality + stress.

Uh, so the moral of the story is, you can do it, but if you get serious anxiety that is prolonged and sustained, you should listen to yourself!

You are a totally together person and I know you have the fortitude to get through this and come out the other side shining. And maybe swearing.

There are half-naked guys in skirts tribal dancing on Dancing with the Stars.

Just sayin'...