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10 X 20 Feet Of Everything We Own

DONE, finally. The apartment is empty. Let me tell you, I really don’t care much for moving. I must say this much, we will NEVER live on anything other than the first floor of any apartment building, ever. This became apparent on around my 500th trip

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those three stinking flights of stairs. I got some help from my family on Tuesday. I thought I would be done moving out on Saturday night or Sunday morning. Interesting how that didn’t work out, we just have a lot more stuff than I thought we did. My sisters, mother, and a family friend stopped in on Tuesday, along with Andy (he helped me move the big stuff, thank God for him).

Everyone left around 11 Tuesday night and I think that’s when it really hit me, I was all alone. My sisters took the cats over to their place to watch them for the next three months. I looked around the apartment and thought about everything belly and I had experienced there. Our first night in the apartment in front of the fireplace on the inflatable bed. Watching movies sitting on that crazy old hide –a- bed. Tossing that old ouch off the balcony. Our first year together, arguing late into the night, always finding ourselves coming through on the other side, stronger than ever. Papa John’s pizza, late night Chinese food, jogging together around the lake. So many memories during our roughly 925 days in that apartment. It was so sad as I packed up a lot of the last items, all by myself. But I know we have so many experiences left with which to build our memories, together.

I went to my parents house at 3:30 in the morning finally on Wednesday, STILL not completely finished moving everything out. Then at 6 in the morning I was up and heading off to drop my grandmother off at the doctor’s office, then headed back over to our apartment. One more load of stuff over to the storage unit, and then back for one final walk through the apartment, to check and make sure nothing was left. Then I dropped the keys off at the apartment office and headed off to my parents. I left the truck there with the more important financial papers and got a ride to Lincoln from my mother. Stayed at my friend Andy’s place till about 8 p.m. and then Spc Wadas gave me a ride to Wayne.

I was incredibly tired, but also relieved the next morning, standing in formation. With everything leading up to that moment, I was just glad to finally be done with it all. Now we get ready to spend the next 15 months or so doing what we have trained for so long to do.

Well, more on that at a later date.

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Now you know they're gonna come for you.
and drag your silly name into the mud.
If the mother bears your children without tears
and without the usual costs of labor

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