productive day thus far

[jaeclectic]

Woke up at 5 AM, lay in bed awake for at least an hour before dropping off again & having weird dreams until finally getting up around 9. I can't remember the dreams exactly now but I know they were some variant on "forgot to do something essential and obvious". The classic one I have had now and then since undergrad days is forgetting to drop a class that I haven't attended all semester, so I'm going to get a failing grade. Anyway, that wasn't the dream I was having this AM, but it was something with that feeling.

Nevertheless, once out of bed and moving, the day has been fairly productive:

- Went to the bank and put in change of address, plus got bank person to sign form to (hopefully) straighten out my check order. This was a bad timing thing: I've been putting off ordering checks since I knew I was likely to move, and ran pretty low. So I finally ordered them after signing the new lease, having worked out that if the checks take 4-6 weeks to deliver, I would be there before them. However, I didn't realize the check company would try to confirm my address with the bank, with whom I had not yet put in a change of address because I didn't really want my statements to start going there until I have the keys!

- Dropped off stuff at Out of the Closet thrift store. From memory, headed to the one on Mission & Cesar Chavez, only to find that it was closed, so looped back and went to the one on Church & Duboce. Man, it is sure hard to get to in a car, the most amazing combination of one-way, no left-turn, right-turn only, no parking, foo bar baz.

- Bought some moving boxes, having dutifully checked craigslist a couple times & decided that it was worth spending 40$ instead of more time.

- Went to Target and bought storage boxes, cleaning stuff, miscellany (wheee! Daly City, big box land! adventures in suburbia!)

Now home and gathering up motivation to sort through more stuff, especially the desk which is completely out of control.
Or maybe start some actual packing.
Or maybe exercise.
Or maybe pet the cats. That sounds important.

Update, 6:40 PM: Actually did get motivated to tackle desk. Now my back hurts and there are still several piles of stuff not yet sorted, but a very large amount of filing has gotten done. I wish it were completely done, but I will try to be satisfied that I made a pretty good first cut at it.