Moving...

We are finally moving!  I wrote about our new house here.  We were supposed to move last year, but we have THE WORLD'S SLOWEST contractor. We had one unforeseen problem in the house, but he has been so slow. At the beginning of June, this year, I went to, um, motivate him--I wanted to yell at him, but I was nice. However, he tried to blame the slowness on us. Whatever.  It was him. COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY HIM. Anyway, moving on (pun intended!), we're moving!

I just signed movers up for July 28th. The movers estimated we have 10,000 pounds of stuff.  It's less 'cause we're not moving an old couch, or an entertainment center. We are moving a treadmill and an exercise bike. I'm so thankful they will be moving those things and not me! Our new house is slightly bigger than our current house and because we won't move that couch, chair and entertainment center, we will have a very empty new house, but that's good! We'll get new stuff and fill it back up because that's the American way. I hope we don't get too much stuff, but we'll see.

Right now, I'm tossing articles from many years ago from work. I just tossed articles from research my dear, late friend and I had done together. It was hard to toss them, but there is very little possibility that I will work in that area again. It's too painful without my friend.

I just spoke to MWH and he agreed that I didn't need those old articles. We'll toss lots of stuff and with them, some of our memories of what happened. I know my Mom held on to some of the things she kept so that she would remember events. I hope I've done an okay job documenting here and on the other blog and now the food blog, too.

Oh, fun thing! I was interviewed by a reporter today because of my healthy eating blog. He knows it's not a hugely popular blog (I have like 20 viewers, most of whom are family, and I think I know all of them). He was interested in how social media helps me eat healthy and in what way it influences me. I like journalists and reporters.  They are right up there with librarians and teachers as some of my favorite types of people.