EDITOR’S NOTE: This entry is mostly for me. I need to jot this down somewhere.

A thought during my last Monday night as a Pleasantville resident:

Lately, my life is cleanup, packing and selling stuff on Craigslist.  It seems like this is all I do.  This has sucked because I’m a freaking pack rat.  I save everything.  I can’t believe the stuff I still have.  My family members will be surprised to hear that today I found the program from my Lolo and Lola’s 60th wedding anniversary party (”Be proud”, B-Rock!).  It was held on July 19, 1997 (the same day I close).

Today, being a pack rat paid off.

I was going through one of those many boxes I haven’t opened since I moved here and I found some toll receipts.  These receipts were from July 10th, 1998.  What’s the big deal, you ask?  7/10/1998 was the day I moved back to Massachusetts from Ohio.  Being the pathetic sap that I am, I teared up when I realized why I saved these twelve year old, tiny slips of paper.

By the time August 1st rolls around, I will have had three interstate moves in my life.  Interestingly enough, all three times occured in July.  July is my interstate moving month.

Just for posterity:

July 5, 1991 – Moved from Pleasantville to Ohio

July 10, 1998 – Moved from Ohio back to Massachusetts

July 25, 2010 – Moving from Pleasantville to San Francisco

Note that they are all in sequential order in July.  I guess when I move back (and I am coming back, mark my words), it will have to be sometime between July 26th and July 31st.

Good to know.