One thing you learn after you’ve moved round a fair bit is that the day of packing and loading the household goods into the lorries is an exercise in patience amongst the chaos.
The best defence against letting the moving process get to you is to latch onto any opportunity for humour.
Who knew it’d be not terribly long after I wandered next door to help schlep the neighbour’s stuff onto the first of what would eventually be three U-Haul trucks!
A few of us had gotten a lot of heavy and bulky stuff aboard when Miss Ashley turns up with a big container of eggs and sausage for breakfast.
The only delay in serving was that they were waiting for Miss Heaven to return from a run to the Food Lion for some salt.
Now, I’ll admit that I’ve not been looking forward to the rapidly approaching day where some of my favourite people in the world become a bit less conveniently accessed.
I was of the opinion that they were going to miss me as well but apparently my rather convenient proximity already been forgotten.
I wish I had my camera phone in hand when Miss Ashley was telling me why they were waiting on breakfast. The look on her face when I asked her if she wanted iodized or kosher salt and gestured a bit to her north toward The Nerdery was absolutely priceless.
It didn’t take long for the word to spread in the kitchen and more than a few Uff-Da moments were to be had.
I’m guessing Uff-Da means the same thing in Puerto Rico as it does Minnesota! 😉
That’s the thing about life during the Permanent Change of Station (PCS) chaos…you’re so overwrought worrying about a million different things that it’s very easy to overlook readily available and easy solutions to the inevitable problems that crop up when loading the household goods lorry! 🙂
Step back a minute and take a deep breath and embrace the chaos! 😉