Tell Aaron Rogers to go!
Who is that?
Aaron Rodgers is an NFL quarterback, who played for the Green Bay Packers until forcing a trade to the New York Jets earlier this year.
Ah, football references…whoosh!
Cats have a natural tendency to live in the hooo-mans blind spot. They’re always there you just can’t see them. Clever girl. 
In the wild predators that routinely stand where the prey can see them don’t eat often enough to survive to reproduce.
The ones that know to stand in the prey’s blind spots do much better.
Just in case you wondered what your cat thinks of you.
I always suspected they saw me that way.
I vacated my wonderful house today. Currently I am lying in bed in the new place. I am stressed out to the max. They didn’t begin to finish unpacking today, and I had to leave the cats at the vet for another night. The place is utter chaos. I hope when the boxes are cleared away the furniture looks more like it fits. Right now it’s a nightmare. I sure hope it gets better.
You know it will. The boxes will be gone, the furniture will be arranged, and the cats will return.
And you, dear lady, will sleep the sleep of the mightily exhausted. For a week or three.
Bravo on a job well done, even if it’s not quite finished yet.
Thank you so much. I am a wreck.
It will all come together and be just fine. Your kitties will come home and have a fine time exploring. You may have some final tweaking and rearranging to do, but you will make it home for you and the cats very quickly.
Hang in there, I know you can do this!
Beck is a (the) wreck, you’re tired and stressed and doing your best.
While you’ll be busy to the point of insanity getting everything out and put away, I suspect the cats will be in fine form ‘helping’ you unpack. Going into boxes, out of boxes, being underfoot, yowling at new smells, having zoomies, beating each other up, fighting over who gets to be in that -one- box, and the like.
It’ll be crazy, but nothing like insane cats to make a place into a home in short order.
Oh no! I hope they finish up smoothly and quickly.
I hope you have a nice quiet night, with good sleep.
Something has to go wrong, doesn’t it?
But it’s only a day’s delay in the unpacking. Tomorrow night you’ll have the cats with you, and you’ll feel a lot better. And yes, the furniture will fit; you’re just not used to seeing it in the new place yet. It’ll look normal with time.
I hope you’re already asleep and won’t see this until morning; but, if not, sleep well and soon!
And thus beginneth a new chapter.
TL: I feel like this whole move is a big ol’ Rorschach Test – telling you and us more about where your head is at than it might about the ‘realities of’ the move.
And you’ve been exemplary. Your attitude has been outstanding. Of course it’s scary. Of course you’re anxious. Of course you’re exhausted – even without COVID making an ill-considered appearance. Of course it’s tough on your pets.
But you’re doing so, so admirably well in every category, and you invited us all in to watch, so … we know.
If you were in a bad head-space, you could have seen a million problems with the new place, and – this was particularly notable to me – could have easily hated the food. What a glaringly easy place to manifest negativity, right?
But your chin is up, there’s a gleam in your eye, and you’re taking this transition on with gusto.
I applaud you, Young Lady, and have every confidence that things are going to be great.
You’re probably at the moment of maximum stress: when the life change has occurred and the dissonance is maximally strong and unavoidable. This is when you need to allow yourself a great deal of emotional release and flexibility to get through the pain. Everything should get better going forward, as the grief eases and the strangeness of your new circumstances recedes.
So be kind and tolerant of your own needs.
Hopin’ you got some rest last night Thelma Lou. The worst is over. It’s not all over, but it’s a mainly downhill ride even if it’s still a little bumpy for a ways. Sending my best thoughts your way, though keep in mind they’ll be somewhat attenuated by the distance and the low wattage of the transmitter these days, but perhaps combined with those of the others it will help somehow.
Y’all are so kind. You’re making me cry again. But in a good way. Thank you so much for the encouragement. It’s still utter chaos. But by the end of the day we may be over the hump. I’ve got to bring the cats home today. I can’t stand another night without them.
We got ourselves shoehorned into this place, which is about 900sf. We also snagged four storage bins in the basement, which are stuffed with crap we’ll never use again (other than Christmas stuff). We have all the surplus art pieces stashed behind the couch, as there is no more wall space for it. I’m hoping to foist some of it off on a couple of my kids. We’re functional, but cluttered.
My place is 890 ft. I’m using two storage units.
As I’m unpacking boxes, I’ve already identified four boxes to go straight to Goodwill without even being unpacked.
P. S. I tested positive again for covid this morning. Damn.