{"id":56483,"date":"2015-10-17T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T07:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=56483"},"modified":"2015-10-17T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T07:09:03","slug":"get-er-done-merit-badge-intermediate-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/56483","title":{"rendered":"Get ‘er Done Merit Badge, Intermediate Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our<\/span> Sisterhood Merit Badge program<\/span><\/span><\/a>, now with\u00a06,691 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20149,460 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my<\/span> former life<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u2026\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For this week\u2019s Each Other\/Get ‘er Done Intermediate Level Merit Badge<\/u><\/a>, my friends organized a sneak attack. You see, they knew about my Merit Badge addiction <\/span>hobby, and they were waiting for a good opportunity to strike.<\/p>\n

One of them decided to move.<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

That glorious life change of changing houses.<\/p>\n

Boxes, boxes, and more boxes, as far as the eyes could see.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Mixe2021 via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

And they knew I would roll up my sleeves and help a farmgirl out.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d be resentful of their cotton-pickin\u2019, strategic, evil-genius-like, shenanigans \u2026 if I weren\u2019t so begrudgingly admiring of them.<\/p>\n

So, roll up my sleeves I did, and we were off for a full weekend of that great American pastime: moving.<\/p>\n

There was an eight-hour minimum time commitment involved in earning my Badge, and just the thought made me laugh maniacally and curl up in the fetal position. I had already promised to finish the job with my pal\u2014eight hours smeight hours\u2014so I was in it for the long haul.<\/p>\n

Get it? Haul? U-Haul? Hah.<\/p>\n

I could probably earn six Intermediate Level Badges with the contents of this gal\u2019s house, I swear. Minimalist, she is not.<\/p>\n

Groan. Throw myself prostate on the floor.<\/p>\n

Weep a little.<\/p>\n

But back to work! At least it\u2019s not the Hottest Day of the Year, or the Rainiest, or the Coldest (which is when I tend to my own personal moving days in the past). I could probably control weather patterns just by scheduling moving days, actually. Something to think about as a career, Janey: meteorologist\/professional mover. Hm. If the Organic Sushi on a Stick Drive-Thru doesn\u2019t pan out \u2026<\/p>\n

Unpacking and putting things away in a new house is kinda fun. Packing and cleaning the old house? Not. So. Fun. About as much fun as gnawing off your own eyebrows, which is basically what I felt like doing 7.5 hours in. We started off organized enough: boxes labeled in nice black permanent marker, helpful things like Kitchen Baking, <\/em>or Non-fiction Books, <\/em>or Pantry Dry Goods. <\/em>But then, exhaustion and hunger and wild-eyed craziness set it, and pretty soon I was labeling boxes Lift with Your Legs, Dummy, <\/em>and Why Do You Even Need These? <\/em>and These Could Be Replaced at the Dollar General So Why Are You Making Me Pack Them? <\/em>and my personal favorite, I Sold My Soul to Pack Your Junk Drawer. <\/em><\/p>\n

I was getting hangry (angry due to hunger), so we stopped for a pizza break. After a nice slice (or four) of a Hawaiian and Jalapeno special, I felt slightly less sarcastic and umm \u2026 slightly less like I might murder the next person who misplaced the packing tape. We settled back into a rhythm of wrap, pack, tape, label, repeat, and before we knew it <\/span>approximately three lifetimes later, we were done.<\/p>\n

Well, except for the cleaning of the old house so she can get her deposit back.<\/p>\n

Groan.<\/p>\n

Weep.<\/p>\n

Throw myself prostrate on the floor.<\/p>\n

There better be another badge in it for me. I don\u2019t know if I can make it.<\/p>\n

Please send cookies.<\/p>\n

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