Packed Up

My camera is packed.  Along with everything else we own.  It's all in a storage unit.  And we are currently bumming off friends and family until our house closes.  It was supposed to be done on Aug 10th but it has hit quite a few bumps and we had to move out of the apartment even though the house was not ready to go.  Poor planning.  I know.  Now we are frantically trying to get things to work out with the house (although each passing day it seems to bring a new huge problem) and we are in California freeloading off my parents for the weekend.  Nice.

I keep trying to figure out how we ended up in this predicament.  There are steps along the way where we should have done things differently but it's too late now.  Now we just have to hope everything works out.  The good news is that I have great friends that have helped out.  They've all come to our aid in one way or another and we are really grateful to them.  I think the low point was when we had just taken our car into the shop.  All six of us were crammed into the loaner Mercury Sable driving back to our friend's house, the gas light turns on, I have to pee, and the blinker in the car breaks.  And then a John Mayer song comes on the radio.  I hate John Mayer.  That was when I thought things can only get better, right?  We had no home.  No car.  And John Mayer was talking about my body being a wonderland-yuck.  That was our life.  All I could do was laugh.

Sad to say after that day we discovered that things could get worse.  We've had nothing but bad news regarding our house.  We are wondering if we are ever going to get into the house.  Who knows!  All I know is this house business has not been fun.  I keep thinking I should be crying or something over it but instead I just eat ice cream.  So I'm getting fat on top of it all.  I have had an epiphany regarding people, trials and choices they make.  Sometimes the stress of life makes us make dumb decisions.  But when you are going through a hard time it is ok to let little things go (like my diet) while I work on something else.  I can't put my whole effort into every aspect of my life all the time.  I need to pick the most important things to focus on and let the other things go.  And so do other people.  When there are other people going through a hard time and they let some things go because it just is too overwhelming I should not judge them for that.  You can handle all things but not always all the time.  Sometimes you can let things wait.  That doesn't mean it is an excuse to give up and not do what is right but you can lighten up a bit in areas that don't really matter when another aspect of life is hard.  Hopefully the next time I blog it will be from my own computer in my own house.  Maybe there will be a picture or two because my camera will be unpacked.  Although my pictures are never interesting anyway so maybe not.