packing is underway!

11:41AM Sunday and I just got out of the bed.... what a nice night of sleep, what a great Sunday morning.

Counting down to Teh Move now in 6 days - also counting down to the closing date of my transaction which is in 2 days, the day I write a big phat check that makes me poor and fear for my job security. Ahh the sweet burden of property-ownership.

As I have been anticipating (not without some anxiety) the move, I've also been quite hyped up about buying new furnitures and decorating my place. It goes without saying that whenever people hear about the news, they try to hype me up as well "Ohhhh that's so exciting, have you started looking for furnitures and are you going to paint the place etc. etc."

I've taken the whole hype and was ready to run with it. Even started looking at random furnitures and color coordinating. But as the date of moving draws near, my steam has cooled down a little. If I think about what I want to do versus what I should do, there's a bit of a gap in between.

I should be buying furniture with my own money. Since I've borrowed money from the parents for the down payment, I should be looking to reimburse them before I think about pimping up the crib. Of course there are immediate, urgent needs (the bed, the television), but the rest can wait a little, and be slowly added on as I live in there. 

Come Spring time, I will probably have saved up a bit and can even think about ripping out the carpet and have laminate floor installed. That would also be an occasion to buy the new couch and paint the walls, etc.

Although what I really want to do is rip-the-whole-thing-up now, paint-the-walls now, throw-everything-old-away now, put-in-everything-nice-and-new now.  RESIST THE URGE MISH. Since I have no money left anyway, this should be easy... (it's not).

Honestly, I love changes, I love going to new places - but I absolutely hate the effort of moving. To quote Newton on his first law: "An object that is not moving will not move until a force acts upon it".

I'll need to figure out a system that makes moving easier (never unpack? haha).