The movers arrive tomorrow! The house settlement is the day after. When the house closes after being recorded at the start of next week, we start a new (old!) chapter. Old because for the first time in roughly 50+ years we will be living in an apartment for some time. For the last 23+ years we have been living on a bench on a hillside, with a 600-foot driveway. Next door neighbors, not! Now our next door neighbors will be a wall away. What could possibly be unhappy with this picture?
There are still boxes to pack; there are still trips to be made to three--count 'em--storage units; there are difficult art pieces still to deal with. Need I belabor the point? Tonight is our last night here. Then it is motel, friends, and the SLC townhouse until our apartment is ready mid-August. Then it is an unknown--but probably 6-8 months--time until our new house reaches completion. Then the process reverses itself and two of the storage units will cough up their contents. (The third will be emptied in a few weeks to furnish the apartment.)
All of this appears to be correlated with a rise in blood pressure to borderline hypertensive. That is, the vicinity of 130+/90+. This may in part be due to my currently relaxed posture on sodium intake. Weight is reasonably stable at 220. On the positive side the increased physical activity is probably more good than bad. I seem to be avoiding serious back tweaks (knock wood) perhaps because of the lifting program of this past year. Sleeping has not been that great seemingly because of the increased tension involved in this much change. It has also been very warm here. Who decided this was a good idea?
On the other hand, it is the start of a new adventure with all its challenges. For two near octogenarians, why not?
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