{"id":9571,"date":"2013-09-13T19:10:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9571"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T19:58:10","slug":"moving-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9571","title":{"rendered":"Moving the first"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9572\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9572\" alt=\"stuff\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/stuff.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stuff.jpg 420w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stuff-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stuff-225x150.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">stuff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m moving house at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>The removal people are booked, but that\u2019s the easy bit. I have to organise, pack and label the contents of a two-bedroomed house (plus the almost Alpine-like landscape of stuff that is lurking in the loft), before the removal people get here.<\/p>\n<p>And, meanwhile, I have to continue living in the house (which is difficult enough with many of my possessions and household things packed away).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also have to be agile, and dodge my way around mountains of packed things, without brushing against any, because I would probably get buried in the resulting avalanche of the contents of dusty cardboard boxes.<\/p>\n<p>This morning my internal monologue became a full-blown conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Me: There is just one person living in this house, right?<br \/>\nMe: Yeah, just you.<br \/>\nMe: Well how come there\u2019s so much bloody stuff to move?<br \/>\nMe (shrug)<br \/>\nMe: (shrug)? Is that all you&#8217;ve got? (shrug)??<br \/>\nMe: Well, it\u2019s your stuff too.<br \/>\nMe: Don\u2019t you get smart with me!<br \/>\nMe: I wasn&#8217;t getting smart with you, you big geek! I was just pointing out that you own everything in here too.<\/p>\n<p>A fight ensued. Which I won, obv.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>After the move, there\u2019s the joyful task of unpacking and sorting everything out, and the rebuilding of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>This will, inevitably, be followed by the months-long \u2018I&#8217;m not sure I want this here, maybe I\u2019ll try it over there for a while\u2019 conversations that my brain will have with my body, as I wrangle and wrestle furniture around the new house.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, much joy awaits me, in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m moving house at the end of this month. The removal people are booked, but that\u2019s the easy bit. I have to organise, pack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}