If you follow your own blog then you can unsubscribe here http://wordpress.com/#!/read/edit/ so you don't receive notifications of new posts. However, as your say "I need to move/add a bunch of pages" and not posts both of those acts will achieve nothing.

So I still do not have my question answered on how to turn off email notifications for my blog.

There is no way to do what you want to do, aside from pulling the follow blog widget out of your sidebar. Doing that simply stops any new subscribers from using it to sign up to receive your posts, not pages. As the follow blog widget is only for those who wish to subscribe to receiving your posts and not your pages doing that is pointless. Pages do not have RSS feeds and no one can subscribe to receive your pages by email via the follow blog widget.

Instead of getting a professional answer I got a snotty response from raincoaster. I need to know how to turn off notifications for posts and I typed pages since I am in the thick of it moving pages/posts. Ideally the support would assume the best intention and not assume I am some stupid bimbo and tell me pages don't notify, but if you mean posts then do xyz. But clearly raincoaster assumes I am stupid. That pissed me off and it was not helpful or supportive.

So I still do not have my question answered on how to turn off email notifications for my blog.