T-29 days

And here we go.

I've just scheduled movers for May 5th. That's just over 29 days from now. Cassie will start to see boxes piling up, which she does not like at all. I don't like it either.

Worse, probably 2/3 of my stuff by volume will go into storage for a year while the two of us live in an apartment approximately 1/3 the size of our house. There are very good reasons for this, the primary one being that the very same real-estate market making it exactly the right time to sell my house is also making it exactly the worst time to try buying something else. I'm hoping that the market will stabilize over the next year. So are a lot of people. Or if nothing else, that a cute little 2-bedroom vintage walk-up goes on the market next January for a price I can afford and in a part of Chicago I want to live in.

That's next year. More immediately, I have to start packing for real. Plus handle another 300 small tasks in the next four weeks. Should be fun.