Before we had kids I'd try to go out of town for a couple days around our anniversary. Post kids, we generally just go out for dinner. Really what we should do is go out of town for a couple days, without the kids. I'm looking forward to finding an opportunity to do that sometime, but it's never quite worked out.

Appropos of nothing: I randomly came across this lovely tagline from the oral tradition of Malagasy mythology “it is not I who lie; these lies come from ancient times.”

I need packing and get through it ~ma. I am ...mentally and emotionally spent. Habitat couldn't take a lot if the stuff it's too much to leave on the roadside and there won't be enough space in the truck to add it and find someplace that will take it.

Will is going to have to deal with it.

At the rare I'm able to move it will be Saturday before we can leave and that is stressing me out. Right now I just want to throw away more stuff. And I keep finding stuff.

So I guess ~ma so that we can leave tomorrow.

Would 1-800-got-junk pick up what is left?

Moving is always incredibly stressful. Always. I'm sorry you have to deal with it.

Our 25th anniversary was last year. I made a reservation in St. Augustine since that was where we honeymooned. We watched a bunch of Downton Abbey. And went to the beach and stuff of course. Now that the kids are grown we will likely get an opportunity to celebrate these anniversaries and things more. In theory.

Suzi I don't know. I'll call tomorrow and see if they can pick it up.

New,plan us leave tomorrow no matter what and huzt get out of Vermont. I like the state but I just need to feel like I have made progress.

We are still packing. There is an issue packing the TV but that's mostly resolved. I am determined to be out of here today even if we don't make it out if the state.

So much moving ~ma. I have been super busy and not posting much, but I have been doing a lot of shaking of my head and commiserating! Moving is one of my very least favorite things.

Penny was a very good traveller. I did give her a tablet or half of one this morning so she spent most of the day prior to being in the car drugged.

But she was fairly quiet and once we got on the interstate and kept moving she totally settled down. However, there was a minor escape at the hotel (the carrier door came open while I was trying to open the hotel room door). I corralled her and she hid and then came out a bit, hissed at her reflection in the mirror , and then hid some more. She hasn't eaten but I'm waiting for her to eat so I can take up the food and water again. Horrible sounding but better than dealing with the effects of that in the moving van.

I also left the Feliway spray in the van. When we get breakfast I may run out and get it and then spray everything down. She's adjusted to the collar I got her so that will be staying on and Mom is going to get one for her cat. Which hopefully will help.

Today was...there was a point where I got totally overwhelmed and was just convinced I would never leave. That I'd be mired in the limbo of wanting to but being unable to forever. Which isn't realistic but I was very emotional the past few days.

I meant to buy a memento for my nephew and get some Vermont local beer for my brother but the only beer was in bottles and I didn't to deal with broken beer bottles in the back or stuck with the beer under my feet.