Moving & Stress

I recently started a blog about how I hate packing so that I could procrastinate packing, but then Heather called and it was the best of both worlds because I got to talk (have fun, which feels like procrastinating) and pack at the same time. This was extra-hard packing because I had to decide what went where (Appleton, Storage in Midland, or home to Midland/perhaps on the honeymoon?)... I couldn't just shove it all in the trunk of my car and peace out. Plus, it was the process of going through 4 years worth of college stuff... books and papers and CDs and everything else. I don't think you truly value living simply until you have to move.

Because of the moving and the graduating and the finals and the getting married, I have been under a liiiiiiiiitle stress lately. Not the really bad kind of stress, like when a family member dies or anything, but the kind of stress where there is just an overwhelmingly lot to do. Luckily there are people in my life who are genuinely trying to relieve as much of that stress as possible... but even those ones sometimes add stress in their own special way. :) Lately marriage has seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel... not so much because I'm excited to finally truly be with Matt (even though I really, really am), but because I think my/our world might finally calm down a little bit. I'm imagining grilling hot dogs while our ice cream maker churns away at our desert in the kitchen after an afternoon of roller blading or maybe swimming... and that sounds amazing right about now.