Almost excited

 I was starting to feel quite overwhelmed with the mountain of tasks mounting. I was racking my brain trying to think of the best way to organize everything. I have so many lists and resources in many places.

For now, I've landed on Microsoft Planner. It wasn't starting out great but I tweaked the tools to fit my need. I very much wanted to visualize everything on a timeline but also make lists. So I started just brainstorming some tasks. I included multiple items in each task but in the end to help visualize it, I had to list every sub-item as its own task.

That helped because I didn't want to feel like I might forget a pre-step for a task. For example, I'm planning to donate all my heavy stuff like furniture. I had it as one task for Pickup Donation with a checklist to pick and confirm a firm to pick up the items. But it worked better to give each of those checklist items its own due date.

So that helped a lot. Breaking each task down into smaller tasks with their own separate due dates helped to make it all seem more manageable and get it out of my brain! 

When I look at the calendar, the whole thing seems far less daunting and chaotic and more manageable. There are actually days where I don't have to actively do anything. I'm sure there will be lots of follow-up, but I've gotten the bigger things out of my brain. 

It was a good brain dump with some result.

Also, the Board helped to chunk the items into a couple phases - Selling the House; Packing and Moving; Then Newtown Tasks.

So for now until I close on the house, those are the tasks I'm prioritizing. 1st -events related to getting the house sold and then packing and moving. Those two things are obviously occurring during the same timeframe but if I only have 1 energy unit left, I have to choose events to sell the house over packing.

I think honestly, the biggest variable is how to get rid of the furniture. I kind of wish, they would just come and pick it up so I don't have to worry about it in the end.  The only thing I need until the last minute is my bed, desk, and maybe a couch. 

And it looks like I will be traveling back for onsite work in July. Which will be good to break up the summer. And it will be a few weeks after I move so at least I'll have a bit of a break.

I will probably pay for a week of overlap between old House and Interim Apartment because this is just how these things go.

I think I want to push the closing out by one day just so I have time to breathe a bit.

But in all things, I plan to choose easy and convenient.

I'm actively trying not to think too far ahead. I just want to get the house sold and moved out before I plan much more.

My financial brain is thinking it will be great to have everything done before the end of Q2. But that's something I just thought of. I can't wait to calculate all my expenses for the half-year. Haha, I have to get my jollies somewhere.

But yeah on the interim housing front, my default decision is just to go with Landing Standby in a nearby location in NC. Using some general internet search data, I anticipate being bumped in 2 weeks. And just for funsies only on this blog... let's think about what happens next.

I'll either go to DC for the rest of the summer or start heading west towards Newtown. 

DC only because it'll be fun to socialize again and plus..summer. I don't think I need to wait until August to have fun. 

But yeah, that's as far as my brain can go at the moment. Basically, just reassuring myself that staying in NC a bit longer is okay in the interim apartment because I have business I need to take care of. And just refocusing the objective on getting out of the house and being prepped for the next stage in my life.