Productivity

What I Accomplished Last Week:
-Packed all my stuff
-Moved it to my new house
-Cleaned my old apartment and checked out
-Wrote and gave a talk in church
-Wrote and gave a lesson in church
-Met a homeless man who gave me a good new perspective on life
-Told a woman how to get to the hospital to meet her daughter who was in labor
-Went to a free Bright Eyes concert
-Ate a Liege waffle
-Helped other people move and clean
-Made a podcast (it's not a real thing yet)
-Forced people to listen to Dolly Parton
-Rode my bike
-Took a friend to the airport
-Took off my glasses and jumped in the pool
-Hung out with Argentines
-Went to the temple with a roommate
-Hung out on a hammock
-Went to a bonfire
-Watched a lighter explode in said bonfire
-Talked about stuff with people (very ambiguous rhetoric)
-Went to a wedding reception for one of my favorite people in this world
-Got visit taught
-Ate a free dinner care of institute funds from the ward
-Hung out at the hospital cafeteria and saw the usual random people there, including the guy who stole my bike lock (and gave it back ten minutes later)

Things That Are More Fun Than Unpacking:
-Facebook
-Blogs
-Walking to 7-11
-Making lists
-Sleeping
-Almost anything

The Hardest Parts of Unpacking:
-Learning you have more crap than you thought (and yes, it is mostly crap when you're moving)
-Finding spaces for everything
-Organizing things
-Cleaning before putting stuff away
-Having to buy new stuff to organize
-Motivation to actually just do it
-Finding things while in the limbo of being half unpacked

mid-move inventory

Pros of Moving:
-filter through possessions and purge extra belongings
-potential from change
-cleanliness
-reminder of how temporary everything is
-no need to lift weights
-opportunity to reorganize things
-the puzzle of how best to move things, and then again on where to put them away

Cons of Moving:
-not fun
-strenuous
-not enough room for just one carload ever (not me, anyway)
-(with shared spaces) where to put things that won't get in roommates' way
-not enough room in new place (at least until space is familiar enough to figure it out)
-put everything in a box only to take it back out
-the soreness of lifting things that are heavy and carrying them around
-sore hands from lifting boxes and other such things
-forgetting where you packed things
-having to put everything you owned into boxes and realizing how much you have and yet how much you don't have