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Moving By Numbers

In the past five years, I have moved ten times.

Everything I own has been strategically packed in space bags, boxes, department store sacks, suitcases, and sometimes even trash bags as I moved to my first college dorm, then to Houston to work for the summer, then back to school to a new dorm which was infested with mold. I quickly moved to an apartment for my second year of school, then to  Houston for the summer, back to yet another apartment, then to Costa Rica for an internship and back to one of the cutest duplexes I have ever seen. Post graduation I gained a new found appreciation for space bags as I drove cross country and moved into a condo in Arizona.  The bags were recycled in 2011 when I moved back to Texas.

Friday Stina and I signed a lease for move eleven.  Believe it or not, I couldn't be more excited.

This will begin year five of Stina and I being roomies.  Four years without a fight.  Not even the slightest squabble over leaving dishes in the sink, or the roommate cliche of "she ate my food." Four years she has been my person. I can't wait for year five as I continue my first year at a new job, Stina begins nursing school, and together we start planning her wedding! 

Five is also the number of months I have been blessed to live rent free with my aunt while I transitioned from the move. 

Rent will be $200 under my housing expense budget with our thirteen month lease.

It will now take me twelve minutes to drive to work instead of sitting in traffic for sixty. Amazing.

Isaiah 43:19 
See, I am doing a new thing! 
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? 
I am making a way in the wilderness 
and streams in the wasteland.


Some places had a friendly stranger waiting to by my new roomie
Some packing jobs have been better than others...
Sometimes my work looked more of a mess than the packing process


Sometimes empty rooms made me extremely sad...I loved living in the plex
Some places I wasn't ready to leave...

Sometimes more can fit in the back of a Toyota Yaris than expected


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Pamela Matthews said…
Good thing you won "Miss Organization" for the past "umpteen" years as many times as you've moved :)

I'm excited for you -

Mom
June 21, 2011 at 3:51 PM
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