One Week to Moving Day

One week from today--the 15th--we say goodbye for one year to this lovely house we've been inhabiting in St. Paul, and head for the new sights and sounds of Northfield. The amount of things to be done, between research, teaching prep, packing, cleaning, and fixing up the house, has led to a massive overload of Jess' system, wherein she has been able to do very little except knit and watch movies, as her way of (not very productively) coping with all that needs to happen.


We finally started packing...not much, considering we have a whole house of...treasures...but we did manage to sort through and package up most of our clothes & books.



In the two or three days following our move, we'll be back at the house to tackle de-wallpaper-ing and painting the kitchen & bathroom, shown above (aren't they just lovely?). We have about two days until our first renter moves in, then another two until the second moves in (and two more renters move in by Sept 1st)...so we're hoping to have this project wrapped up by the weekend after we move.

It all seems quite do-able until I remember that in those 3 days we're also actually moving to Northfield, unpacking and settling in there, and trying to get our lives in order in time to start working again. Not that I can imagine actually having my life in order! It will be a frightening day when the first day of classes rolls around and I have to go out in front of the undergrads as is, unprepared due to my own procrastinating habits! (Why can't summer be longer????)