Taking Care of Business

There seems to be more and more work piling on my desk now that I've officially made the announcement that I'm moving. I would like to take more time to focus on the big "job search," but time is something I seem to be a little short of these days. Sometime in the next week and a half, I need to accomplish the following (among other things):

• Renew my driver's license to maintain Indiana residency (must be done during office hours...very inconvenient).
• I have already renewed my license plates online, but the new tags will likely be sent to my dad's address...need to arrange to pick them up or have them mailed quickly enough to arrive before I leave.
• Finish the big "Goodwill purge" and take the resulting trash bags (three thus far) to the donation center during collection hours (again, very inconvenient).
• Finish packing the kitchen. This will require another trip to the warehouse to track down the rest of Renee's kitchen supplies to replace what I am taking. These warehouse trips are usually an hour standing in the cold, poorly lit warehouse...gross.
• Pack the remainder of my clothes. I have a lot. I am completely unwilling to give any more away at this time.
• Disassemble my bed and move my bedroom furniture to the warehouse. It is all big, heavy, and real wood...Oy.
• Return all the things I have borrowed.
  
• Go out to dinner/lunch with everyone I am going to miss (my social calendar has filled quite quickly).
• Figure out what the heck is still going on with my teeth before I move away from my surgeon.
• Take an inventory of what stuff really needs to go with me now and what stuff will remain boxed in the garage for a while.
  
• Take down my Christmas Tree (hey, to my own credit I already have all of the ornaments and decorations off and stored).
• Get about a million finance applications out the door for the office.
• Sign a PA on ONE MORE house.
• Clear out the office laptop of all personal business (backup my own photos and contacts, etc).
• Organize the office files so that someone else could actually figure out my systems.
• Leave some sort of a how-to manual (probably a week of writing in itself).
• Update the sales workbook so it makes sense.
• File all of the important emails I have by subject to be used as reference for the poor person who replaces me...I have thousands of emails with pertinent client and project information.
• Get a new phone with a Minneapolis number so I seem legit to prospective employers.
  
• Pick Mike's brain on Minneapolis contacts so I have a chance of getting a job.
• Try to see my family before I go. I will miss them terribly.

Well, at least the dog has been groomed, and my oil has been changed. That's two things done, right?

I'm overwhelmed.