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Glad to hear you're on the mend, OP. At least it happened now and not the day of the move!
I'm helping my parents move out of state. They're getting professional movers to pack up everything but I've been helping them prep the house and run errands and I volunteered to help them unpack everything. Of course, my dad needed surgery last week and my mom is recovering from pneumonia and somehow I've injured my elbow (I think it's tennis elbow) and I can't lift anything without pain in my good arm. Sigh. I seriously wonder if the stress of moving causes illness and injury as the moving date grows closer.
Sigh. I seriously wonder if the stress of moving causes illness and injury as the moving date grows closer.
When I told my friend that I broke my leg —right in the midst of our prepping the house the sale— she said, "Oh, the Moving Curse. It's a thing." Just when you are right up against a moving deadline, all the presssing tasks, the need to have a sound body and brain, something happens that makes everything harder. LOL. Well, okay... I'm a believer.
I hope you get to feeling better! That’s a bummer.
Well, as for other stressful event, try moving and setting up a brand new house that needs all variety of systems and appointments and that closed 1 month before my wedding, so the first two weeks I was out of town living back where I’m from in a crappy apartment, while painting, garage epoxy, electrical, and other work was being completed on the house. Then I came to town to deal with the things like deliveries (washer / dryer, some furniture, water system for the house, way more) and handyman work and starting the pool excavation, but mostly to accept delivery of our stuff. This was a week ago. And now the movers haven’t come, apparently will miss the window that ends tomorrow, and I have to leave town for my wedding on the 6th, next Friday, by Tuesday at noon. So I won’t have my stuff here, apparently, and have to deal with getting rid of some stuff at the apartment in the few days I have before the wedding and deal with wedding stuff then drive get married and drive 16 hours the next two days with our second car down to Las Vegas.
I’ve never been so stressed really, even directing my first feature film wasn’t this bad. Not as many things went wrong. Everything has went wrong. They even screwed up the dryer delivery and it was electric not gas, took 5 phone calls over 2 days to get Best Buy to deliver the correct unit. SKU was off by only one digit. Almost every single thing the last week was like that, it all had to be done twice because it was screwed up the first time, like the ceiling fan install, or the smart switches they sent me the wrong ones off Amazon (third party, not Amazon’s fault at all), etc. Grrr... its like you said, it should be a happy time but instead I just want to get the wedding over with, get my stuff back, and finish the house projects so I can relax and enjoy my new life. It’s the work that sucks to get there!
Hang in there OP, moving is always stressful, sometimes more than others!
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