Jamie Kaye's Breakfast Cafe

Been pretty quiet the past little while but work be so bad for my mental health that when my holiday ended I just kind of shut down for a bit.

Now, however, things are going absolutely nuts, and I have a new job and am planning a cross-country move. Not entirely happy, honestly pretty miserable, but with time that will hopefully ease. For now, just... moving stress. Packing. Planning! Money!! Auuuughhhhhhhghghghghgh

I know Jamie just finished this a few months ago, anyone else feel like moving commiseration?

oh yeah; i just had my own big move back in august of last year. from texas to the pnw for a few very obvious reasons (wanted to get out for a while, realized i was a woman and REALLY needed to get the fuck out asap) and it's stressful as fuck. still not entirely recovered from it all, but it's at least easier to deal with now that i'm closer to friends and community.

i hope your move goes smoothly! at the very least it's all just a really good time to just reconsider absolutely everything; when home's in flux, so is everything else, including the habits you had that were never all that good for you in the first place.

Definitely glad you were able to get out, and yeah, I expect to be dealing with the stress for a while even after everything is settled. I am looking forward to the changes, especially in work and habit. leaving behind the life I've had for so long is hard, but I think shaking things up will be good for me, especially health-wise. Thinking about how much time I lost last year to burnout is upsetting.

It's mostly just the crush of it - I've been working with a month and a half of time to do everything. Given that I have to give my rental agency a month of notice, as well as book moving service a month in advance... cutting it pretty close. Utility cutoff, too. That's been the biggest stress of it all, trying to get all this stuff booked with this rather tight time limit. I'm almost looking forward to the actual packing/cleaning stress just because I have a little more time to deal with it.

It will be worth it though, just have to make it through.

OH no I 100% feel this. I had a really bad moving experience once, so I have a lot anxiety wrapped around the process (not the being somewhere new part, just the process). I was dead for like three months. I've never done a huge move like this, and I'm only feeling like I'm starting to properly feel settled in now. It took a full year. Lol I finally got my state license plate for my car done like yesterday.

Sending much love and warmth, Mii. I'm glad you're making a huge change for yourself and I'm so so sorry it got to this point. <3 Thanks for checking in and letting us know too! It'll be worth it you got this!!!!

MoiMoi wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 7:36 pm oh yeah; i just had my own big move back in august of last year. from texas to the pnw for a few very obvious reasons (wanted to get out for a while, realized i was a woman and REALLY needed to get the fuck out asap) and it's stressful as fuck. still not entirely recovered from it all, but it's at least easier to deal with now that i'm closer to friends and community.

So glad you got out of there too. Even Austin itself was getting ROUGH. TT; idk if you're experiencing the same but it's so nice to be in a city with regular working class people again instead of TECH CITY. Tech people are the worst.

Thankfully now that most of the stuff is done (just need to set up the cancellation/inspection date for my gas, but I had to wait for the metre slip first, and they even said that up to a week before the move-out date is fine) so the stress has eased off there at least. Still have the remaining bits of packing and stuff to do but at least most of the time-sensitive stuff is done so I am not stressing out about that.

Of course for me I'll blink and three weeks will have disappeared in th twinkle of an eye so it's back to stress so we will see.

A lot of it for me is that I don't really want to move at all, I like living here. So I'm really bummed out about that. I have a really nice location here and I like the pace of life a lot. Moving is wholly out of necessity. I'm not thrilled about it, so I have to come to terms with those feelings too.

JamieKaye wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 4:24 pm So glad you got out of there too. Even Austin itself was getting ROUGH. TT; idk if you're experiencing the same but it's so nice to be in a city with regular working class people again instead of TECH CITY. Tech people are the worst.

yeah the real tech parts are the ones i tend to avoid, like around bellevue. otherwise i prefer being in cap hill or the international district. cap hill especially tends to attract a lot of gays, artists, and gay artists.

Four more days till da move

Thankfully I got most things done already so the next few days are waiting for people to take stuff away for recycling/disposal, and final cleaning.

Still feels weird. I have a lot of "why did it come to this" kind of feelings. I liked things a lot here. I'm sad that I have to leave.

It will get better though, I'm sure of it.