rustypants speaks

it’s been a flurry of activity here at the house as we pack twice: once for our move to pensacola (in which we are loading our two cars and my dad’s pickup), twice for the house itself (so when it sells, we can just come back up and load the truck without having to do a lot of packing, too).

we’ve come across a lot of memories of the four short years here and even more memories of the seventeen years we’ve been married. when we bought this house we were certain that we’d never move again – it was perfect and things were all sunny and bright! it’s funny how things change – i’m more sad that we’re leaving our families and friends. i’ll definitely miss the house (especially temporarily moving into a 1 bedroom apartment) but it’s not as crushing as i thought it’d be. the realization of how awesome it is to do what we’re about to do – that’s overpowered the great sadness i thought i’d feel over selling it.

we’ve been having great fun getting things together, seeing family and friends, packing, dreaming, hoping, planning. we’ve got a couple more days and we’re on the road. please do stop by sunday afternoon and hang out with us a bit – we’d love to see you.

we’re not quite sure what dolby’s going to think of this whole move thing but hopefully his dog-brain will adjust as he stops to smell the fragrant fire hydrants of pensacola, leaves his own frangrance, meets some new butts to smell and pups to wrestle with. who knows? maybe his obsession with eating crap will end as he basks in the florida sun.

for now, it’s back to the list of things to pack, things i’m forgetting to pack, things that need to be disconnected and services turned off.

will we accidentally leave a burner on? will i need to turn around and check?