OOS hassles

So I don't officially move up to Raleigh for another week but the process started months ago. Moving, oh how I dread it so much. It's not that I don't want to move to North Carolina. I actually am eager to move to NC; it was one of the many reasons I wanted to go to NCState. I mean, I do worry sometimes about moving to a place where I know no one and with weather I'm not used to (but quite excited for). There will be times where I will actually have to put on real shoes, rather than flip-flops, to take my dog for a quick walk. Granted, Raleigh doesn't even compare to many other vet school locations out there on the coldness scale, but I'm from S. Florida. I've lived in Florida my entire life. While I have gone on snowboarding and other trips where the temperature has gotten pretty low, I have never lived anywhere where the temperature has ever been below freezing. Okay, maybe there was like a night or two during the 4 years that I lived in Gainesville where it MAY have dropped into the high 20s....

Anyway, back to dreading the "move" itself. As my moving date gets closer and closer, I'm starting to dread it less and less. I think that's just because I know it will be over and done with soon and I'll be getting settled in and then before I know it I'll be starting classes. Maybe it's also because I finally have almost everything worked out. I finally know how I will be moving. We decided to rent a U-Haul and do it ourselves. Movers are just too expensive and most of them cannot guarantee an immediate delivery. For an across state move like this, they can only guarantee to deliver everything within a month. They like to pick up your furniture and store it until they have more furniture and such from other people as well to move in the same direction and then move everything at once. I also finally decided on exactly what day I will be moving, unless something goes wrong. Also, once again assuming nothing goes wrong, I have all my electric, water, gas, etc. set to turn on the day I take over my new place (also the day I'll be driving up there). I already have an appointment to get my auto-insurance transferred to a NC policy and an appointment to get my cable and internet hooked up a couple days after the move. I still need to make an appointment (if I can) with the DMV up there to get my NC driver's license asap. But all in all, almost all the specifics of the move have been worked out at this point and knowing that takes off a lot of the stress of it. Now here's to just hoping nothing goes horribly wrong......