Definitely at least 75% OCD

We moved, and I survived.

Now for the Unpacking. Current opinion tends towards me surviving that too.

Thanks for your kind thoughts regarding my personal pain in the ass. It's bad, but I'm still standing. And the suggestions you had were good - the SIJ belt has been helpful in the past, physio is always great (including hydrotherapy) and lying flat on your back is to be avoided! Smart chickies, my bloggy audience.

Yes, the Unpacking. I loved your comments about moving - horrified to hear that Femina's friend had her HANDBAG packed. If the packers were anything like MY packers, it would have bene wrapped in 14 large pieces of pink butchers paper and no mobile phone could be heard through that lot.

Hippomanic Jen's Mum's packing style had me chuckling. I don't think I could handle that. Things are disorganised enough at my house as it is, without velcro hair rollers using the empty space inside my watering can.

There were the usual nightmares and things going wrong, but I kept my head above water and it all sorted itself out eventually.

Now I am left with a squillion boxes of assorted stuff-we-never-really-use-anyway mixed up with really-quite-essential-stuff. And that maddening combination being in a chaotic state of half-unpackedness has made me realise that I am definitely at least 75% OCD, if not more.

My Crazy Sister and my Mum have been here today helping, and Mr de Elba was a hero and found everything on my PLEASE-FIND-IT-NOW list and stuck my clothes dryer up there on the wall. I have a smallish phobia of the screws ripping out of the wall at 2am and the dryer CRASHING down causing me to die of cardiac arrest, but I figure I'll deal with that one if/when it happens. And if I'm not dead. Mr de Elba, who was confident earlier that the screws would NOT rip out of the wall at 2am is now worryingly unsure, owing to my ongoing ruminations on the subject.

It's a bit like my snake-on-top-of-the-roller-door phobia and my railway-bridge-collapsing-at-the-exact-moment-my-car-passes-underneath phobia, and neither of those has ever come to pass.