Grave Considerations: Moving, Part Five

We are finished moving.

Grave Considerations: Moving, Part Four

It is the last Sunday morning that I will wake up and pace the floors of this apartment. It is the last Sunday morning where I will make my coffee and then write something for the Coffin in this place; the last Sunday morning I will turn the volume on the television way down and play video games. It’s not the last Sunday morning where I will grind my teeth at a Souls game, that’s for sure, as last evening I started up Dark Souls II and in two months the Dark Souls remaster is coming out. Some things are forever, after all.

Grave Considerations: Moving, Part Three

So. I was recently packing up my toy collection, specifically Masterpiece MP-06 Skywarp, and I began thinking about how many times I have moved certain pieces in said collection. For that Skywarp, this will be the fourth time. Each time, I have transformed him back to jet mode and put him in his box. As may be expected, his box is pretty ragged at this point. Last year in the fall I began throwing away boxes I’d been hanging on to, and the Masterpiece boxes escaped that purge but not notice. I am kind of thinking that once we complete this move and figure reemerge from their cardboard prisons, that those boxes may be next on the chopping block.

Even the smaller, more modern Masterpiece boxes. I packed up Exhaust and Loud Pedal into their boxes, but put Toys R Us Bluestreak in a plastic bag, because his box was far too large to justify packing for what amounts to be such a small figure. Toys R Us Soundwave as well.

Grave Considerations: Moving, Part Two

My wife and I are moving in 20 days. Our cat is moving with us, but he doesn’t seem to be all that concerned with it. Nor is he doing any work to help us, but I suppose that is to be expected. We have begun the process of packing, starting with the pieces we have on display, a very large task for each of us. Last weekend we began boxing up figures that were still in their packages, things like Masterpiece Transformers and such, which necessitated their transformations to fit in their boxes. I had a thought as I was transforming the old MP-06 Skywarp: this figure has moved with me three previous times, and I was converting him for packaging and transport a fourth time.

And then, I’m packing new things. Things that have never moved before, because I bought them here. Disassembling and bubble wrapping Hades and such, boxing up third party figures and practically forced to wonder if, all those months ago, long before this move was a reality, long before we’d even seriously begun to consider it, I’d made the right choice in throwing away all of those boxes I’d been keeping.

Grave Considerations: Moving, Part One

This was begun Friday evening, and my wife and I are sitting around our apartment: she playing video games, and I shuffling back and forth between projects or ideas for projects. Just the previous night, we found out – officially – that we would be moving in 36 days from our current one bedroom apartment to a very spacious two bedroom, complete with living room and dining room. It’s quite a big upgrade for us, and we’re both pretty excited. But, moving is never easy, and while we were then currently relaxing and not making many solid plans in preparation, the journey to this point has been tumultuous. And now, the hard part is about to get underway.