Update
Brief as I can.
Moved date to Oct. 9th. Changed destination terminal to closer to Long Beach.
Continued packing.
Told everyone at work I'm leaving. Am now wishing I were leaving tomorrow so I don't have to face the misery and guilt trips they're all giving me. They literally drop by the department just to tell me I can't leave, it's hurting them all too much. WHY COULDN'T YOU CARE WHEN I WASN'T LEAVING?
Maybe they did and I just failed to notice. I'm good at that.
Have requested a transfer.
Steven has looked at apartments. Await report.
Have had various degrees of 'talks' with parents, to different levels of success. In short: mom now seems to be the one coping better, and I am now more concerned about dad.
Listed a bunch of stuff on ebay, including some Monty Python VHS sets. Hoping to obtain the DVDs in fairly short order. Need to find the set for a reasonable price. Meh. Also listed a Magical Mystery Tour collectors set thingy which is kinda hard to part with, but should hopefully fetch a decent price, and I never look at it anyway.
Attempting to deal with feelings of guilt, mourning for leaving here (no matter how much I hate it), anxiety and uncertainty... in short, a lot of negative feelings have come up, and I'm also trying to deal with the fact that hey... I do still know this is overall a good idea even though almost every feeling I'm having about it at the moment is bad. I have to keep reminding myself it's a good idea. Reassurance would not be amiss.
Have planned out a route with Dad that will take us through Syracuse, Chicago, Texas - ick, Roswell, Tucson and then on to LA/Long Beach. Roswell was a happy accident as we realised the shortest way to get from Chicago (a natural first major hub in my trip from where I'm starting) to Tucson (I want to visit - my grandparents lived there till they died, and I haven't been in forever) was so dang close to Roswell... you might as well go through... Texas was a necessary accident, in said short route. It's a fairly sensible route which by dads estimates should take about 7 days. I estimate it will be 10-12, with the stops and whatnot, but we'll see. I don't think we'll go as fast as dad thinks.
Addendum, before someone tries to find a shorter route: This is the shortest route that involves the least mountains, because they make me sick. This way only involves VERY MINIMAL mountains. There were other ways... but I felt I would be too ill, and would rather go south.
Have continued to turn CD collection into MP3s.
Continued to turn VHS collection into DVD.
All in all, have made serious progress.
HOWEVER, finally got a call from my lawyer - filed, but she hasn't gotten anything back yet - IN A MONTH. TRYING NOT TO PANIC BUT IT IS VERY HARD KTHNX.
Next step: ask her what happens if I'm out of state when it goes through?
Moved date to Oct. 9th. Changed destination terminal to closer to Long Beach.
Continued packing.
Told everyone at work I'm leaving. Am now wishing I were leaving tomorrow so I don't have to face the misery and guilt trips they're all giving me. They literally drop by the department just to tell me I can't leave, it's hurting them all too much. WHY COULDN'T YOU CARE WHEN I WASN'T LEAVING?
Maybe they did and I just failed to notice. I'm good at that.
Have requested a transfer.
Steven has looked at apartments. Await report.
Have had various degrees of 'talks' with parents, to different levels of success. In short: mom now seems to be the one coping better, and I am now more concerned about dad.
Listed a bunch of stuff on ebay, including some Monty Python VHS sets. Hoping to obtain the DVDs in fairly short order. Need to find the set for a reasonable price. Meh. Also listed a Magical Mystery Tour collectors set thingy which is kinda hard to part with, but should hopefully fetch a decent price, and I never look at it anyway.
Attempting to deal with feelings of guilt, mourning for leaving here (no matter how much I hate it), anxiety and uncertainty... in short, a lot of negative feelings have come up, and I'm also trying to deal with the fact that hey... I do still know this is overall a good idea even though almost every feeling I'm having about it at the moment is bad. I have to keep reminding myself it's a good idea. Reassurance would not be amiss.
Have planned out a route with Dad that will take us through Syracuse, Chicago, Texas - ick, Roswell, Tucson and then on to LA/Long Beach. Roswell was a happy accident as we realised the shortest way to get from Chicago (a natural first major hub in my trip from where I'm starting) to Tucson (I want to visit - my grandparents lived there till they died, and I haven't been in forever) was so dang close to Roswell... you might as well go through... Texas was a necessary accident, in said short route. It's a fairly sensible route which by dads estimates should take about 7 days. I estimate it will be 10-12, with the stops and whatnot, but we'll see. I don't think we'll go as fast as dad thinks.
Addendum, before someone tries to find a shorter route: This is the shortest route that involves the least mountains, because they make me sick. This way only involves VERY MINIMAL mountains. There were other ways... but I felt I would be too ill, and would rather go south.
Have continued to turn CD collection into MP3s.
Continued to turn VHS collection into DVD.
All in all, have made serious progress.
HOWEVER, finally got a call from my lawyer - filed, but she hasn't gotten anything back yet - IN A MONTH. TRYING NOT TO PANIC BUT IT IS VERY HARD KTHNX.
Next step: ask her what happens if I'm out of state when it goes through?