Subterranean House Move Blues
Sep. 6th, 2024 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
strypeyA couple of days ago, I finally finished moving the last of my stuff into my new home. As anyone who has done this before will understand, I didn't get much else done for the past week or so. So now I'm preparing to triage the backlog that's piled up.
Like a lot of neurodivergent people, my coping strategies adapt to the spaces I inhabit, and I find moving house extremely disorientating. On top of that, this my ninth new home since the start of 2020, and that's not even counting all the places I stayed for a few weeks in between. So moving house now comes with a side salad of triggered trauma, and that backlog is looking like a massive wall I have to climb with my fingernails.
Only the most urgent things will get done this week - or even next week - while I finish settling into the new place and getting myself organised. Updating my mental inventory of where everything is (eg coffee beans, grinder, plunger), adapting my routines and processes to the new space - from the day-to-day (eg making a coffee) to the week-to-week (eg grocery shopping... to top up coffee beans) - and so on. TGIF!
If you're waiting on me for anything, please don't. Unless it can wait as long as a month or two, while I work through the backlog. If it really depends on me, and it's urgent, we've probably already talked about it, but keep being a squeaky wheel. I'm more likely to deal with things right now if I keep getting reminded of why it's urgent.
Wish me luck!
Like a lot of neurodivergent people, my coping strategies adapt to the spaces I inhabit, and I find moving house extremely disorientating. On top of that, this my ninth new home since the start of 2020, and that's not even counting all the places I stayed for a few weeks in between. So moving house now comes with a side salad of triggered trauma, and that backlog is looking like a massive wall I have to climb with my fingernails.
Only the most urgent things will get done this week - or even next week - while I finish settling into the new place and getting myself organised. Updating my mental inventory of where everything is (eg coffee beans, grinder, plunger), adapting my routines and processes to the new space - from the day-to-day (eg making a coffee) to the week-to-week (eg grocery shopping... to top up coffee beans) - and so on. TGIF!
If you're waiting on me for anything, please don't. Unless it can wait as long as a month or two, while I work through the backlog. If it really depends on me, and it's urgent, we've probably already talked about it, but keep being a squeaky wheel. I'm more likely to deal with things right now if I keep getting reminded of why it's urgent.
Wish me luck!
