I can’t decide if 14 states feels like a lot to cross through in five days or not enough, considering we crossed the ENTIRE country. Same with knowing that we’d never been in half of them before. Is that a lot? Not a lot? I have lost all sense of perspective. And all sense. And, since we got here, I’ve been fighting decision fatigue again. It’s kind of scary to waffle between options, knowing the choice you make won’t be wrong (the thing you’re trying to decide on is not that important), but completely unable to choose. I don’t like it. It’s not all the time, and it’s not debilitating. In fact, I think it only happened twice and only Monday morning. It’s still weird, and I don’t have to like it.
Five days in the car. I was ready to give the car a break (my butt was ready to send the seats packing), but at the same time, I wasn’t ready for the trip to be over. It wasn’t restful, and it wasn’t a vacation, but we didn’t have to do anything except drive. Work was a distant memory. It was freeing. We’re still somewhat in limbo, since we don’t have our stuff. I called the moving coordinator Tuesday morning (Day 7 of the 7-14 day window), and she said the driver couldn’t provide an ETA yet, but call again on Friday, and maybe they can provide one. Sigh. No internet yet, either, but the install kit could arrive any day, assuming it has actually shipped. I placed the order Friday night, but I never got a confirmation email. I called them Monday, and they confirmed the order and resent the email. I just realized I never got that email, either. I have to call them again and hope hope HOPE it’s out there and actually on its way. Cross your fingers for us!
Update: the install kit arrived and we have internet! We still don’t have anything to sit on or at, but we have internet!
momma betty
“Sense” is not exactly what I would call it, but I definitely understand your description of it, especially “decision fatigue.” I realized last night that our choices of where to live have never really been choices. We’ve always lived where work was–first Bob, and then me. Now we have all the choices in the world and we’re spinning. How do we make that choice–on the basis of weather, familiarity, proximity to family, cost of living??? We’ve never had to make those choices before. Now we’re just sort of in limbo. But, really, we could have much worse problems, couldn’t we?
Zannah
You do what we do – avoid making a permanent choice. 🙂