Thought it might be fun to have a bit of a journal about the time before, during, and after the move from Minneapolis to Austin, Texas. Maybe just for me? Or if anyone is interested in the ins and outs or mistakes and random events that we encounter.

The “we” part? I’m moving with Rob, my boyfriend of 2 years or is it 3? He keeps track of that better than me. Anyway, we don’t live together yet, so with this move we’ll be making the transition to sharing a household. Merging cool kitchen gadgets I expect will be one of many life improvements with that merger.

We just endured the polar vortex which I memorialized with this picture of ice forming inside the window.

It was during that cold stint that we hired a moving company to come and provide us a bid. He had to visit Rob’s house and then my apartment. Still waiting for the bid and plan to get a couple more of those before choosing a mover.

Meantime, Rob was able to find a real estate agent that is willing to share listings of rental spaces that are available! While we aren’t moving until end of May timeframe (when our leases expire) it is still useful and fun to view what kind of options exist.

We’ve also started packing boxes, starting mostly with what’s in “storage”. We’re going the extreme nerd route where each box has a number on it which is logged digitally along with description of contents.

I’d say about 80-90% of my stuff is art materials, homemade “art”, and collections of shells and rocks.

Sometimes I think about how the entire environmental encyclopedia of knowledge and behaviors relating to MN (weather mostly) will now be turned on its head and I guess I will have to be ready to deal with snakes or cockroaches or whatever instead. And extreme heat stress symptoms instead of the familiar sting and numbness of pre-frostbite.

Meantime, Paige, my daughter, is already asking me about getting a dog and when… and frankly I thought it was kind of nice not having one right now (our family dog, Nimbus, died of old age about a year ago). You know, I have so much to say about this I think I’ll just make it a blog post of its very own.

I used a macro lens that I can stick on my phone!