drive-by update!

[edenfalling]

1. I had a uterine fibroid embolization on June 4. This is a minor surgery that basically murders a fibroid by cutting off its blood supply. I had to stay in the hospital overnight for observation, since blood clots can be Bad News and this procedure essentially creates an artificial clot -- they needed to make sure it didn't hare off and cause problems.

My sleep was very disrupted for about a week thereafter, and I had some minor side effects as well as discomfort, but I am now pretty much back to normal. It will take a month or two to see if the slow withering of the fibroid fixes some problems I was having.

2. Friday the 20th will be my last day at the rental company. I am trying to get a certain set of tasks complete before I leave, but Lawyer Man keeps yanking me aside to work on stuff related to our imminent website revamp, which is frustrating. I am 90% sure I will not be able to finish everything I want to wrap up, but such is life.

3. I have two U-Haul U-Boxes set to be delivered to my driveway on Monday the 23rd. My parents will arrive later that day, and the goal is to have the boxes packed and collected by midday on the 26th, and for us to hit the road no later than mid-afternoon on the 27th.

Then I get to crash in their guest room and go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa for a bit.

4. In July Mom and I will return to Ithaca for my surgery follow-up appointment, and probably also to close my Ithaca bank accounts. Later in July I am road-tripping through western Canada en route to a fandom friends' gathering, and then road-tripping home by way of Washington and assorted bits of the northwestern US, because why not.

Then I will do a bit more AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, and in August I start looking seriously for a new job. New housing will follow, since it's easier to rent an apartment convenient to a job location than to find a job convenient to an apartment location.

5. I have been sorting through boxes and bins of stuff that I have not touched for literal decades, and holy shit I have been clogging my apartment and my life up with so much nonsense. It will be good to start over on a cleaner footing.

Comments

[tielan]

I'm glad you've got your family behind you (I hope this is a good thing) and that you're decluttering. There are things in boxes which I should simply pour into the bin, because I haven't touched them in a year, but it's so difficult to do! EEK.

Anyway, good to hear from you, may you get done what needs doing before you leave, and safe travelling through the coming months!

[branchandroot]

I think you never really get to tie things up as well as you'd like, when leaving a job. The decluttering sounds like it's going better, which is excellent!

[violsva]

Moving is A Lot, and moving AND surgery is so much! I hope it goes well!

[edenfalling]

It is a good thing! Ideally I will be out of my parents' house by October, since we do best when living nearby but not under the same roof, but staying longer won't be horrible or anything -- just a bit annoying.

I have accumulated so much nonsense over the years.

[edenfalling]

Yeah, there is just no way I can squeeze everything I want to do into 32 more hours.

Last night I discovered a box that I think has moved with me untouched since about 2005, full of every vaguely school-related "you did a thing!" certificate I ever earned, plus some medals and plaques. I genuinely have no memory of participating in half the things. I saved two items (my high school diploma and the program for my sister's high school graduation) and chucked the rest into recycling and/or trash.

Tonight I have been clearing out knick-knacks and nibbling at the edge of my gardening supplies.

[edenfalling]

Moving is SO MUCH.

Surgery seems to be fine so far! *crosses fingers*

[sholio]

As a fellow member of the Uterus What Are You Even Doing club, I'm glad the surgery went well and hope it fixes the things that need to be fixed!

And I hope the move goes well; it's been a long time since I did an inter-state move, but it is always such a pain and I hope yours is as smooth and unproblematic as it can be.

[edenfalling]

Thank you! So far packing and sorting has been going reasonably well. Hopefully nothing will go wrong with the U-Boxes, but that is next Monday's problem.

[rosaxx50]

Oh man, good luck! Decluttering my single bedroom already turned up so much stuff I had forgotten about, much less an entire apartment!

[edenfalling]

I genuinely have no idea when and where I even acquired a bunch of the things I've been sorting through! Which is usually a pretty good sign I don't need them :)