The top ten signs that you are ready to move across the country:
- You've actually thrown away all that stuff that seemed like such a good idea to keep at the time.
- You have given away several important pieces of furniture.
- You can't see what furniture you have left because of all the boxes.
- Your freezer isn't filled to capacity anymore.
- You get a letter informing you that your rent would be going down next year (thanks to Murphy's second, lesser-known law: "Many things that can go right also will, but also at the worst possible time").
- You have recently had lunch or dinner with just about everyone you know in the area.
- You (or your spouse—thanks hon!) have talked to so many utilities and miscellaneous offices that you could write a detailed treatise on the current themes and trends in muzak.
- Your task-list at work is actually getting shorter.
- You spend hours making a detailed scale drawing of your new apartment, along with scale construction-paper furniture, so you can start arranging things.
And the number one sign you are ready to move:
- You live in Cleveland.
Thank you, I'll be here all week—or at least until Thursday.
Seriously though, as much as I like to rag on Cleveland, there's plenty here that I'll miss (most of it in Cleveland Heights, but that's quibbling). But miss it though I will, I am definitely ready to leave. A new life awaits, so living out the last few days of this one seems empty and futile in many ways.
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