departure date set — wednesday, the 25th.
turns out my bank doesn’t have any branches in washington state. so now i get to decide whether or not to close it. part of me is tempted not to… but then the matter of doing so later becomes a royal pain of certified mail and such. will decide tomorrow…. after all, tomorrow is another day (fiddle dee dee!).
arranged for shut down of utilities and update to car insurance. tags are good through august, so looks like i’m set there.
all that’s left is loading up and taking the cats to the shelter.
sigh.
looking around at this place, the things i wish i could take along… may have to leave the artwork. it doesn’t bother me this time. that feels odd.
planning on packing with the back seat up rather than down so i have a place to sleep. trying to sleep in the driver’s seat just isn’t going to work.
anyway. today is box hunting. need five good ones and some duct tape. may just pick them up at the kinko’s. the only other preparatory purchase being made is a car charger for the phone. will break down everything and pack up tomorrow night. load time less than an hour. much less, actually.
the last thing is to call the landlord and advise. i feel badly for it. lease doesn’t expire until november. no time for notice and this will be yet another black mark on my history, but no help for it. sigh.
mild humor — i’m surprised there’s room for more black marks. but i reckon people can always find room to put down another black mark.
anyway. mostly floating right now. the occasional crying jag. but not gone to pieces. which is as good as holding up well in my book. hopefully the drive will be less daunting than it seems in this moment.
as strange as it may sound, i’m not sad to be leaving the state. and i’m not sad for leaving almost everything behind. i don’t regret any of it… except the cats. that’s going to haunt me for a long time.
i wish things could just work out… i keep thinking that isn’t much to ask… but maybe it is. i reckon we’ll see. on the other hand, they always do work out… it just seems never the way i’d wish or expect. which would make the issue my wishes and expectations, wouldn’t it? (wry grin)
lessons everywhere.
hah. silly thought — i can set this blog to accept email and post it directly. hmm. may do that to post ‘from the road’. of course, they’ll be damn short posts… but that could be… interesting.