Day 109

Day 109

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

To my surprise, I accomplished more than I thought I would.  In the morning I had a little spurt of energy, and got a lot of clearing and packing done in the guet room.  I also resorted several boxes I had previously packed, and was firmer with myself oer  pack or store items.Since I didn’t know when (or if) SIL would come, I got to a stopping point; then sat with my book until she got here, around 11ish.  We just talked a few minutes .. watched her toy poodle attempt to make friends with Maggie (who just looked down her nose at him from as great a height as she could find).  Then she gave me a ride into town.  First we ran by McD for some lunch (gotta love the dollar menu!!).  Then she took me to deposit the gas check, finally!  I am mad at myself though .. twice TGF forgot to get me a mailing box … and didn’t I do the same thing!!  So now what should have been mailed today will go out very late, not until next week.

After leaving town, SIL wanted to find a farm stand.  She was looking for a particular kind of cucumber to make pickles with .. apparently the farmers around here just throw them away and she hasn’t found any yet.  We rode around a bit, and then she brought me on home.

Idid do a little bit more of straightening things, but mostly didn’t accomplish much more.  I waited all day for storms .. it looked “heavy”, rumbled once in awhile, and rained lightly while we were in town.  But then after 9:00 they finally got here … not a lot of thunder and didn’t last more than maybe half an hour.  But the rain came down pretty heavy, knocked out TV (had already turned the computer off).  Well, everything was reruns anyway, so I started a new book.

DS called, and I enjoyed a long talk with him.  He has got me a lot of boxes .. YAY … but I have to wait until he can get them to me.  It won’t be longer than a week from today at the most, so I will keep doing the best I can with the ones I have left. 

It is so hard to know how to pack.  I’m not only going from this big house (that has, at times, housed up to 4 adults and 2 kids) to a dramatically smaller apartment.  I’ve never seen it at all … first time to ever move into a place without having seen it before.  I’ve seen one picture of a “similar” apartment, the floor plan, and DN’s smaller apartment.  Plus, when I move, DN will already have all of her stuff in place, and I will just have to fit what I can.  In some ways that won’t be an issue at all; but in some smaller ways it’s very scary for me.  No one seems to really understand.  I will say that DN really is trying very hard to make this a “joint project”.  A time or two something has bothered me, but if I tell her (and if I can’t say how I feel the whole thing obviously wouldn’t work very well), she finds a way to correct  whatever it was.  We email frequently with questions and suggestions and plans.

I have been trying to focus on the benefits, and there are a lot of things I am looking forward to about this.  There will certainly be problems along the way, but we’ll deal with them.  Right now though my frustrationlevel is through the ceiling.  For one thing it’s taking way too long to hear *officially* back about the apartment.  It’s been 3 weeks and my deposit check hasn’t even cleared the bank.  And on top of that, I almost seem to be back pedaling faster than I go forward.  I did get the refund check from the gas company, but I have to pay off the funeral home.  I have all this lovely furniture for sale .. but TGF pulled all the ads.  Instead of relisting them at a lower price, she decided I should just call a consignment company.  Wonderful.  How long would it take me to ever get anything that way?   The yardsale was, of course, a huge disappointment; but we’ll try again at a much better location.  Still, that’s going to be a lot of work, and no guarantee at all of it being any better. And we won’t have DGS15 to help since he has to go home next week.

OK, I don’t know how today will go.  I have no expectation of seeing anyone at all, and not likely to talk to anyone.  So I need to get myself into *work mode*!!  It’s starting out cloudy, but a good chance of cleanring by this afternoon .. and it’s going to be a LOT cooler and less humid.  So that sort of eliminates one “excuse” for not getting things done.

Today’s goal is to finish resorting a few more small boxes of glass items; finish packing up everything left in the dining room; and if I manage that, start working on clearing my desk (something else to be sold!).

It still feels odd to not have Butter sleep in my lap, and to not have him running to the door waiting for me to let him out!  I don’t know if Maggie has figured out that he’s really gone.

Anyway, guess I better go on and see what I can get done today.