step by step

Despite all the excitement, the reality of having to get from Now to Then is setting in. Greg and I have set ourselves a, perhaps impossible, goal of June to put our house on the market. That gives us two months to find homes for the remaining animals, sell our possessions, and get the house ready. Realistically, it isn't the end of the world if we don't have the house on the market by then since we could always sell it later in the year (although the naysayers are saying, "but your house is 3 bedroom, highly marketable to those with children, surely it would sell better earlier...). Mentally, I just want to be on our way, but life doesn't work like that :)

I am starting to have a bit of an ethical conflict with figuring out how and when to tell work. I am in a management position, but am replacable. At the same time, growing companies function in certain ways assumign that staff will be there in 3, 4 months. We were planning the schedule for an EIR yesterday and the schedule for the final is out around June/july--we were joking about who had vacations and I thought to myself, well..I have one hell of a vacation planned! At the same time, it is just ridiculous to consider telling them too early, as I just open myself up to the possibility of early termination--and to be realistic, what if something goes wrong, what if we can't leave when we want to leave? I have to be real here.

So, you may ask yourself, what does one have to DO to get ready to go on an adventure of this magnitude? Here's the short list:

Research health care
Research RV insurance
Research Trucks/RVs
Shop for new truck/RV
buy new truck
sell old cars
buy my new "wheel estate"

apply for new health insurance (out of state, this state?)--deal with residency issue
Register new vehicles
Set up internet access or new bank account, get direct debit for bills
Set up mail forwarding


Getting the house ready:
finish finding homes for the animals
Box up the storage stuff and organise garage sale stuff
Get "gift" stuff to receipients
Get storage unit and move most stuff into it so house is empty
Re-build side fence (old, windstorm damage)
Take trash to dump (old washer, dryer, couch
Paint interior
Re-carpet interior (??)
Clean clean clean
RE-gravel and add new bark to flower beds
get flowers for decoration outside


I'm a list-maker, doer. My husband is a relax about it, doer. I freak out that if there isn't a set schedule it won't actually happen.

I think one of my goals for this experience should be to take on the relaxed attitude of my future existence with the happenings now...I mean to continue to function and get things done, but not stress about it. It will happen, or it won't. Getting stressed won't change that.

  ¶ 2:59 PM