Moving in, Moving out

Movers joke from Grantland

I have a deadline now and it’s sooo cool!! Until October 15^th I’ll be out of Switzerland for good!! I mean, I don’t have the exact date yet, but for sure I’ll be leaving in less than a month!! Hip
I really have a lot of things to do and I’m so happy for that!

In 2003, when I moved from the USA to here, I was very excited! Wow, I was moving to Europe, the old continent!! An art historian living in Europe was a great match!
So, I was told that a moving company would do everything to me and I didn’t need to lift one single finger!! I was feeling as “the cherry” of a Sunday ice cream!

Of course nothing good happened!! I let for the first and last time ever, a moving company taking care of all my stuff and it was an experience I won’t forget! It really was much more stressful than if I had doing everything myself. So, I learned the lesson!
Doesn’t matter the reputation of the company, doesn’t matter how organized it looks like, how competent it is, it’ll be always me, the only one who will pack my books, my CDs, DVDs, my kitchen apparatus, my clothes, my electronics appliances and son on.

I know there is a huge difference between the meanings of our personal belongs to us and to the moving company! We look at one chair and we see more than a chair; we see a piece that carries our memories and the moving company sees a piece of wood or metal. We look at our books and we care about them! It hurts seeing them being put inside a cold box having just the signification of…paper!!
Almost all carriers pack our belongings as used and maybe crap things and this is the huge difference between my packing and their packing!
And besides, in my previous experience, a lot of unnecessary material was used, making my bill a lot expensive.

I’m a very organized person but I’m not freak organizer for sure, but when I saw those guys just mixing things up in my home in the USA and making a huge confusion I had no other alternative than the needed to go to a walk and crying my eyes out and I don’t want to go through all that again!
Oh I forgot! They delayed the packing work for 4 days doing it just and only in the day before I was flying to here. Really it was very very stressful and I don’t want to go through all that again ever!!

My dearest friend Teresa and me having "the last breakfast"!

Oh! I also need to mention my dear friend Teresa Shaw getting at my apartment on the morning I left, with all my favorite breakfast food from a local diner in Blacksburg! Opening the door and seeing her with a box in her hands with everything I could ever imagine was great!

So, I have a carefully plan to make my moving as easier and smoother as possible! I have a plan and I started putting it in practice already! As I’ll pack-storage-ship to different continents I must stick to the plan to get everything done on time and without much stress.
As I’ll move to France, somewhere in France, I can’t send my books and personal belongs to Brasil. I’ll pack them and leave them here in storage. As I was told about my budget, I’ll ship all my furniture, my killims rugs, electronics that are in very good condition to Brasil and keep them there until I need them again! Who knows where I’m gonna settle for good…

There is just one little detail about it…I’m sick!
My inexistent thyroid is giving me a real hard time. I have muscle ache and all kinds of aches you can think of from my head to my toes and I can’t give it up or I don’t want to give it up!
A minimal effort is becoming a huge spending of energy and making me very very exhausted! Last night I was washing my hair and I started crying for the pain I was having in my arms!

And just to add a little more adventure and excitement to my life, my 4mm kidney stone decided to be very awake and sometimes it moves as it were dancing samba, making me cry with such a pain!
Well, not enough? I got an kidney stone and kidney infection all together!! I really can't complain of tediousness around here!!
Almost each other day I need to take stronger medicine to kill my pain! I’m so thankful that I’m going to Brasil soon and I’ll be able to take care of myself with my doctors who really know my illness or anomaly!!

I guess I’m just like the bamboo bush…the wind bend it over but don’t break it!!

The day my things arrived in my home in Switzerland!