The gas station cashier where I picked up the Uhaul sold me a few moving boxes.
“Moving? You buy house?” he asked. An older Asian man, he was not a native English speaker and his sentences a little choppy.
“Yep! I did. And now I have to move,” I said. And then, because I’ve been stressed out to no end about this whole packing-moving-unpacking endeavor: “Moving’s such a pain in the ass.”
“But you buy house! You should be happy!”
“You’re right,” I said. “But I will be happier once this moving stuff is over with.”
“But we never happy. We always move things around and change everything. You move and then you unpack and move things again. There is always work to do, because we never happy!”
So true.
It’s time now to go unpack. And make myself a little happier.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Jane/Mulchmaid // Feb 23, 2010 at 11:43 am
Sometimes, the actual moving of things around makes me happy.
Happy unpacking!
2 Ray // Feb 25, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Laura! Great blog and congrats on the house.
Peace,
Ray
3 malahat sunset // Mar 17, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Sending some HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!! happiness to your Irish side on this March 17th, 2010. Oh, gee…the last blog was on February 21th. That long ago?!? I could sure go for a blog or three about moving into a house with a backyard and formerly eggplant-colored walls right about now.
Sigh.
4 malahat sunset // Mar 17, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Just kidding, MDIC! Really!
5 Never Your Mind // Apr 9, 2010 at 1:42 pm
That gas station cashier is flippin’ awesome!