Movin' on!

We sold!!!!  Yay!

This was not a fun process.  Buying/selling a house just doesn't bring out the best in anybody. The buyers had us over a barrel and they knew it... but it's over.  The house is sold and we can move on.  We didn't lose any money... but we didn't really make any either.  C'est la vie.

Fortunately, all of this coincided with Greg's trip up.  He had originally intended to come up for 5 days, but then the sale happened.  He had nothing pressing going on in Nelson, so we changed his return flight and started packing.  We have a shipping container coming for the furniture on Monday, Tuesday is for cleaning, and we all take off on Wednesday.  Greg will fly with our neurotic cat. Burgess and I will drive down to Wellington and then take the ferry to the South Island, getting to Nelson sometime on Thursday.

So, right now I am surrounded in boxes and bubble wrap.  Literally.  Here's a picture taken by the computer...

(Don't mind me.  It's 8:00 in the morning and I haven't even had breakfast yet.)

It seems like the more we get packed, the messier things become.  We have all these loose bits and bobs waiting for the perfect box spot.  Fortunately, we don't have that much stuff.  I'm not one for owning lots of anything, so it could be worse.  I'm also clearing out a bit.  I finally jettisoned the 5 boxes of baby things that we were carting around "just in case".  (Don't worry.  I kept one box of the really precious bits... like Burgess's copy of "Goodnight Gorilla" and certain tiny, tiny clothes.)  I've donated books to the school library and toys to a local kindy (preschool).  It's nice to pass on these things to places where they will get a lot of use.