And now I feel old(er)

As some of you know, I am in the midst of packing. What is my plan? My plan is to wander the earth like Kane from Kung Fu promoting understanding and tolerance while handing out justice with my fists and my feet.

But that is not why I am writing today.

I am writing today because while I was strong enough to do something, I didn't have the stamina to do it.

This comes from my experience this morning with a queen sized box spring and mattress.

So, I packed and cleaned and cleaned and packed until about 1:15 this morning and then woke up at about 4:30 to continue this mad rush to a) simplify my life and b) get out of this apartment by Thursday.

One of the problems with this is that garbage pickup was this morning, implying that if stuff was going to the curb, I had to get it out last night and this morning. Most of the big stuff I had out but I put the aforementioned box spring and mattress back on the bedframe so I could sleep thinking two things erroneously.

The first was that DGS would be picking up later today based on the amount of stuff that was on the ground on the various blocks around my house. The second was that after a couple of days of lifting, hauling, cleaning, and packing, that I would magically be able to move everything quickly out of my bedroom and onto the street.

DGS did come a little later (let us call it fifteen minutes) but the second supposition was the one that I was really fraking wrong about. I could make excuses, like the dog being underfoot, or being tired, or having aches, pains and strains, but the truth of the matter is that I am old.

I don't have the recovery time that I used to have (which is true in other ways as well) and while I am in reasonably good shape, and generally strong enough to manhandle and haul things...today it wasn't happening.

I suppose that I could do a couple of different things with this new self awareness: I could work out more, increasing my strength and stamina, I could give up and realize that I am old, or I could do nothing.

That is for the future. I need to get back to packing.