This week has been crazy busy and insane and I may have lost mind space on several other words to describe crazy and insane. 

This six-word memoir from Jon Snow sums up how I enjoy living my life.  Asking lots of questions (especially with all the things going on); excited (or scared…is there really a difference); surprised always and sometimes – more often than I’d like to admit – wrong. 

I think that’s life for us all.  Being inquisitively wrong.

Last Week’s Goals

• Big To-Do List. My big to-do list is planned and little things are added when needed.  Even better things are being checked off.  
• Party planning. Checked off the list.  I’ve had two good lunches/dinners with friends and many more planned.  I am enjoying time with friends here before moving and making local friends.
• Closet purge. Done!  And now I realize how few of Hunni’s clothes fit.  He wears the same things over and over.  The rest hand been hanging out in his closet for the last year.  Now we’ll be able to rebuild his wardrobe after we move (so we don’t have to pack them).
• Letter writing campaign. Oh…I didn’t plan on all the other things week taking over my life.  But I did find my greeting card file and make a list of people to write.  I will work on them steadily instead trying to do them all at once.
• BREATHE!!! This week started with a HUGE amount of panic.  A few sleepless nights with my Astrid To-do App making sure I have everything.  And many other afternoons packing several totes filled with things.  It feels a bit more doable now.

This Week’s Goals

• Sort and box.  I have a plan for what we need to leave out and have pitched the things we do not need/want.  Now it’s time to sort and box it up with labels.  Things will be in order to save me a headache during the unpacking.
• Cook pantry meals.  I inventoried my pantry and was happily eating the food we have with minimal grocery shopping.  Then we received moving orders and now I want to pack as little food as possible (even the non-perishable things).  Lots of frittatas, simple pastas and random chili/stews are in the future.  I’m looking forward to making spring treats to share as fruits come in season. 
• No apologies.  The insanity of my work and packing to move I’ve fallen off my regular posting schedule.  I enjoy writing so it makes me feel bad when I don’t write.  But I know posting will be taking a second, third or even 30th place to all the things I have to plan with work and moving.  I’m here and miss it but I can’t apologize – at least out loud or in writing – for my lack of blogging time for a bit.
• Show off my organization.  The timeframe for this move is ridiculous and I know it.  But this is one way my OCD comes in handy.  My lists have lists.  I have all the information organized for those who follow us that should answer almost any question.  And I’m loving my label maker.  Files are named, boxes are labeled, closets are marked.  It has become a fun game.
• Read something. My poor books have been collecting dust on the night stand and shelves.  I picked 2 I can read at home and am boxing up the rest.  I want to enjoy them but the stress of trying to do so while moving would drive me nuts.  The library is there if I need it.
• Dance in the street.  Literally!  Our local Relay for Life event is a large Zumba dance party on Main Street.  I’ll be decked out in purple with the fun slashed up shirt, curls and big earrings helping to raise money for cancer research with my amazing friends.  Sounds like a great Saturday to me.