My friend Veronica works from home and has moved to two different states in the past few years. She loves working from home. I also love working from home but have never done it while house hunting, packing, moving, and unpacking. It is wearing on me. I am trying to stay calm, to not look…

I woke up very groggy this morning, stumbled out of bed and started work. I made a joke from bed about how I only had ten minutes to get to work, work being just 15 feet away from our bedroom. I was nearly late. I slumped up to my desk at 8:59am, few! I’ve had…

Now that I’m here, and most of the boxes are unpacked, I want to start thinking about native bee houses. We don’t have a yard big enough for honey bees, but mason bees and bumble bees should like our garden. I’ve been researching how to build various houses. The mason bee houses are simple. Just…

I went to a class at the Portland Nursery and learned all about vegetable gardening. When I got home, I brought my seedlings inside and did some more gardening around the house. I planted some fava beans and started some more seeds inside. We did some unpacking and headed over to my friend Mo’s for…

I have an incredibly fugly chair that I refused to let go in this move. I have grown so fond of this chair that it sometimes feels like I am returning to the womb when I sit in it. I’ve covered it with a blanket so I don’t have to be reminded about how ugly…

Our neighbor Keith says the girls who lived here before us weren’t much for yard work. Turns out he would mow their lawn in exchange for a 6 pack of beer. Explains why the one who resnt us the place wasn’t sure if there was a mower in the garage. Yesterday I tackled the lawn,…

I’m so pooped. We got all our stuff delivered today and the internet man came too. So I’m working and unpacking. My days melt into one big working unpacking frenzy. We got a dinner invite for st patrick’s day and the idea of going to someone elses’s how and being fed a meal sounds so…

This is apple number… Oh I don’t care what number it is. Since we spoke last, my Internet web down, my phone died, and we had all our stuff moved from our apartment to a truck. We cleaned our apartment and drove up to Portland. We’re here and we’re tired. More later.

Tomorrow is the last packing day. Friday the nice movers come and take all our stuff to our new house in Portland. I’m so close to being done, but it seems so far. Everything’s got to be mover ready. I broke down today in a heap. I’m completely exhausted, mentally and physically exhausted. I worked…

Wow, what a great apple. I’d never seen this kind before. I found it at Safeway, and if an apple from Safeway can taste this good, imagine what it would taste like if it were actually fresh. Maybe it’s full of some sort of voodoo magic and so only tastes good when it’s been picked…

Nothing like an interstate move to get you to question your art practice. I have so much stuff to move around, it makes me crazy.I wonder if I’m even going to be happy to have all this stuff in Portland. I sure hope so. Right now it just feels like a drag. I’ve thrown out…

Four days left. I’m working in a bare and box-filled kitchen for the next 4 days until the magical movers come and take it all away. My computer is molasses slow and I ate today’s apple while my stomach ate itself, waiting for things to launch and load. But ho! The RAM finally came, and…

Here we are, in the final five day countdown of when the mover come and magically sweep all our stuff up and carry it away on their magic carpet. Our apartment is a disaster. We seemed to have found portals into another dimension in order to fit all our shite into this apartment. Now that…

Wow, I don’t think I ever want to move again. There is so much stuff to pack, it doesn’t seem like we’ll ever get done. Our landlords won’t let us use the huge, empty storage cage in the garage so we have to squeeze everything in our one bedroom apartment. This includes everything from my…

Maybe working from home while trying to move a household + studio + office is a bit of a challenge. How did I go from quiting my job in order to leisurely find us a place and move us by the end of March, to being uber fast house finder and mover, plus full time…