No wonder I'm tired

[thelaughingmuse]

I just replied to a comment on my previous entry and really grokked how busy my past three months have been.

• October: close on my old house, pack the moving van + car, clean out the old house, put some stuff in storage up north, drive from SEA to MEX (8 driving days, 2 rest days) with four cats.
• November: set up new rental place, get extra keys, get car tags, start unpacking, start language immersion, start settling in...then fly north (work issue)
• December: computer motherboard / charging port failure, buy new computer (and plan trip to pick it up), get backups off old computer, unpack some more, switch phone carriers, fly north Xmas week, pick up new computer and start setting it up, fly back home

And it shows no signs of slowing! Next month I need to: get MXN health insurance, get MXN driver's insurance, renew my residency (3 more years!!), finish xferring my money down so that I'll have money to buy land and build my house when I find the right spot (the exchange rate currently favors the US dollar, but with the upcoming leadership change I don't expect that state to continue), and then do some more - hopefully the last - unpacking. Then I have another flight north to finish packing the items in storage and hopefully arrange for them to be shipped to MEX at that point. (Depends if I finish packing during the next trip, or not. And if I finish, how early in the trip do I finish. I don't think I can give them just 24 hrs notice, that isn't polite and likely they can't be available that quickly.) If things go well, I should be able to start relaxing by...mid-March.

In all of this, I've taken the helm of Radio Free Monday, a fan-community resource that's been run solo (!!!) by copperbadge here and on Tumblr for about 15 years. This is a managed-scope project, I have all the necessary skills in spades, and it's good to be able to help keep a community resource going. Please pass the word among your various fandom communities that this resource is Still A Thing. (Once I've gotten the hang of it, I may ask for one or two people to volunteer to help out from time to time so that I, too, can avoid burnout. If you're interested, watch this space. And that one.)