I emailed you, but congratulations! Now, here’s where you should just listen to me and put the money down on getting movers. Let them pack and move for you. You can’t physically do it, and the cost will be worth every penny as long as you find reputable guys.

My congratulations and condolences! You have a way of making my life seem so placid and uneventful.
I saw some color-coded packing tape at the local U-Haul rental recently which I thought that was a time-saving idea (but of course they con you into buying a full set of colors). And of course they will sell cushioning materials and moving boxes as I suspect the other truck rental companies probably also do.
I’d fly across the country to help, but alas we’re still working on and moving into the beach house.
Be careful not to hurt yourself 🙂

Long distance counseling alright? I was in close to your exact situation some eight years ago (with the added caveat of being 7 months pregnant, we moved in to our new house three days before I gave birth). My parents reverted to treating me like a teenager, much like your Dad. I wasn’t even given a key to the house, even though the house had double-sided deadbolts, such that one literally could not get out of the house without a key. I had to ask permission to go around the block for a walk.
I consider it one of the greatest testimonies to my patience and tolerance that I still have parents at all, let alone that we’re still talking to each other.

Good luck to you, first of all. Yeesh, we just moved at the end of last year and I shudder to think of it. However, I am a great little packer so if I were closer, I would totally help!

I can’t help with anything else, but I thought I’d mention that my experience in a print shop taught me that *that’s* the place to get lots and lots of free boxes. They go through more boxes of paper than you can imagine, and I’m sure that if you call a couple of local print shops and just ask them for boxes, they’ll be more than happy to help you out.

Congratulations!
Install a sangria fountain at the folks’ house?

Better “wine” than “whine”! Better “Tequila” than “ToKillYa”…
Living with parents for 3 months – Better you than me!
Seriously, I am very happy for you and your family!

Congrats on selling you house — I totally understand how you guys feel, as we just got a contract on our house after having it listed (with little interest) for nearly 4 months. Now, just as we decided to not bother renewing the contract and had planned to stay put, we are instead packing up and moving in 2.5 weeks. Agh!
For packing boxes, I suggest you check out The Freecycle Network. Here’s a brief description:
“The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,531 groups with 5,390,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them’s good people). Membership is free.”
You can find a group near you (they’re everywhere, it seems) by doing a search at http://www.freecycle.org/.
We posted a request for moving boxes to our local group and were able to get literally 100+ high-quality boxes (including wardrobes, china barrels, glass boxes, and picture boxes) for free from a gentleman who had just moved from Illinois, Beleive me, he was as happy to be rid of the hundreds of pounds of cardboard as we were to receive it. When we’re finished moving, we’ll just break them down and put them up for Freecycling again.
It’s also a great way to get rid of the stuff you don’t feel like moving, but also don’t want to go to the trouble of bringing to a Goodwill or Salvation Arm location – we usually Freecycle anything that is toobig for Goodwill and isn’t worth enough to go through the trouble of putting on Craig’s List….
Anyway, congrats and best of luck with your move!
Gregg (a fellow martial artist and frequent reader of your blog)

HOLY FREAKING A THAT IS SO AWESOME!!!

Congratulations.
But what’s a crawl space?

Terrific news, I can finally stop crossing my body parts for luck. However, I had to visit an eye doctor for corrective surgery to get my eyes uncrossed, so you should be receiving an invoice within the next two weeks for the cost. Now, you just need to talk Hanshi into scheduling a special mandatory training event, for all dojo members, held at the BBM household to provide instruction and hands-on training for moving boxes, furniture, and appliances using proper martial arts stances and movement techniques.