Day 107
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Yesterday was a fairly productive day. It was quiet .. the only communication I had
other than electronic (and not a lot of that) was a brief phone call from
DS. I did not expect to hear from
anyone, so I wasn’t “upset”; but it did
feel alone at times. The bottom line is
that although TGF has helped deal with the yardsale, and DIL has helped with
paperwork and a lot of important issues (like making phone calls) .. when it
comes to actually deciding and packing, I’m on my own. I’ve been told a lot of things I can or can’t
take with me, but that doesn’t really help (it just makes me depressed .. I
like my whole life worth of things is suddenly trash and I should just walk
away from it all in favor of someone else’s things. That’s making it even harder to determine
what to pack, what to store, what to let go of.
Nevertheless, I did have a productive day. My basic goal was to get the back bedroom
organized. So now all the yardsale stuff
is mainly in one corner, with a few bags in the other corner, along the far
wall. In one front corner I’m iling
boxes to move. The other corner is for
things I’ll need to put in storage. The
only thing still in the room other than that stuff is one short sofa. I have it turned so the back of it “contains”
the yardsale pile .. also made it so it’s no longer covering the a/c grate. Also, all pictures are down off the walls and
distributed.
I emptied out a wall cabinet in the bathroom. I didn’t realize until I started on it, but
it hasn’t been touched (maybe not even opened) since DH passed away. So it was a little sad. But since he had not actually set foot in the
room for many months, it wasn’t as bad as it might have been. In any case, the cabinet is empty. The things worth keeping are packed, and the
rest either thrown away (too old) or put aside to see if any of TGF’s guys can
use any of it .
I did have one “bad” episode. I was taking down necklaces that have been
hanging from a towel bar. One of them I
apparently pulled too hard, and it broke.
It was tiny beads, like pearls only not “real”. I can’t see well enough to be sure, but I *think*
it might be one my father gave me many
(MANY) years ago. The tiny beads
went everywhere (not all of them, but a fairly significant amount) .. there’s
no way I’ll ever be able to find them, and I seriously doubt the necklace if
really fixable anyway. I was already
hot and tired, so I had a seriously weepy spell. Every now and then I step on a bead and pick
it up. I’ll just have to wait until
someone has time to help me try to gather up the ones all over the bathroom
counter (a lot are at least “contained” on a mirror tray).
A few more things out of the dining room got packed, but
only where I needed to “fill in” a box.
Apparently the TV (Dish) has changed it’s programming, so I
no longer get a few of my “standby” channels.
No more food channels, no more GHTV.
It seems the only things I have now are the major networks, the travel
channel, and ION. So if I didn’t want
sports or travel, my only other choice was “Leverage” all afternoon. Well, that was a good thing, because it didn’t
hold my interest; so I mostly only took short breaks and kept at it. Ironically, once news finally came on … I
dozed off. And I had a hard time staying awake for any
evening TV … must be left over tired from Saturday, as well as heat.
I have no idea how today will go .. and, of course, that
drives me crazy. TGF said she would take
me to town (but only because she wants to borrow some $$ … she will be on a
school related trip all week. She has to
buy her own meals but will be reimbursed later.
She leaves tonight, and DSS doesn’t get paid until tomorrow
evening. I will loan her some .. but if
it isn’t enough, she’ll have to find someone else for more). I have trash to take to the dump, and if it
doesn’t go today it will sit there all week.
DIL is also out of town this week.
And since SIL is pretty unreliable, it may be a very lonely week. But later in the week it’s supposed to get
cooler, so I’m hoping to be productive anyway.
DS has just had a new neighbor move in, so boxes are available (his call
was to ask how many I need). But I don’t
know when I’ll get those. I did find
more boxes I didn’t know I had while organizing the back room .. they had been
shoved into a far corner. So I can keep
going a little while anyway.
I also don’t know when the girl who’s taking Butter will
come. She wasn’t able to come Saturday,
so said it would be today or tomorrow; probably in the morning. I’ll just have to hope her time and TGF don’t
overlap (but I did give her my phone #).
I plan to work in the guest room today. I need (again) to get it organized; and I
hope to go on and pack up a lot of odds and ends (and decide where they go),.
Other than my dresser, there’s no reason for anything but empty furniture
pieces to be left in the room. I have to
keep reminding myself I will only have one (smaller) dresser and I can’t take
all the photos and other items I now have on 2 dressers. It’s so hard to choose.
Since I’m in “wait mode” today, I’m afraid I might not get
much done … I tend to pace a lot when I expect something to happen without
knowing when. But I need to go on now
and get the day started, so whatever happens I’ll be ready. Well except for the fact that I completely
forgot and let Butter out. As soon as I’m
dressed I’ll start trying to get him back in (in case the girl comes for
hm). I know if people or cars come here that he doesn’t recognize, he won’t
come out of hiding. That would be
embarrassing!
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