Operation Move SAL

I’ve mentioned before that I don’t like to use the SAL website for too much personal stuff, but sometimes I feel it warrants use for that purpose.

Plus, um, this is my project and can do whatever I want. ::stomps foot playfully:: 

At the end of last week, I mentioned on the SAL Project Facebook page that I was embarking on a new chapter in my personal life and that if anyone else out there was going through transition and change like I am, that I was pullin’ for ‘em! Some of you left very kind responses, and I thank you for that.

I can now announce that the new chapter I’m embarking upon is that I’m moving. Don’t worry–not from Pittsburgh! {I could never! At least not without kicking and screaming the entire way!} I had some things I had to sort out before I was able to announce it, which is why I’m waiting until today to share this news with you.

The reason this is such a monumental thing for me is that I don’t do well with change. Like, at all. Growing up in a home with a family member who struggled with a form of schizophrenia, there was always chaos, disorder, instability, and, well, trauma. So, as an adult, I find that I don’t do well with those things in any capacity. Especially when it involves home life. Naturally, moving consists of all manner of chaos, disorder, transition, etc.

I’m moving for personal reasons, mostly financial. I’m also going to be living with a roommate. I have lived alone in my current apartment in a beautiful tree-lined neighborhood, complete with Target, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and Walgreens within walking distance, for over 6 years. My current apartment has been a haven for me, a tranquil place of healing and rest and joy. I survived 5+ years of graduate school in that apartment, realized I was deeply in love with @Ross_A_Tron while living in that apartment, befriended neighbors of various backgrounds in that apartment, and really came into my own skin in that apartment.

And leaving it is proving to be very, very painful.

With that being said, I have to admit that I need some help. If anyone in the Pittsburgh area feels like helping me move, I will not only love you forever, but I will also feed you pizza and beer. My little body is just not cut out for the physical demands of moving.

OPERATION MOVE SAL
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012
9 a.m.-?
from the Shadyside neighborhood to the Garfield neighborhood

If you want to help, will you drop me an email through the Contact button, please? Then I can gather a list of everyone who’s available and email you all with details.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. And any prayers and good vibes you could impart on my behalf during this difficult (but kind of exciting and hopeful!) transition are most appreciated.

I love you guys.