Day 125

Day 125

Wednesday July 30, 2014

Yesterday I received the most amazing gift: Peace of mind!  I will not go into details.  Enough to say I am overwhelmingly grateful!   And I now have a LOT more work to do!

In theory not having my email working should have meant I spend less time here.  Didn’t work that way.  I’ve been trying to function using gmail;  but I am not familiar with it, so missing a lot.  I can’t find the “reply” function, so can only email people who happen to already be in the address book.  Fortunately, my DIL is there and I’ve been in touch.   She is going to try to come this weekend for a short visit to try to help me deal with a few things, including the computer.

I’m pretty sure I’ve convinced TGF that this weekend would be a very bad time to try to have a yardsale.  The weather forecast keeps getting worse.  One more week is more time to finish getting things in boxes and moved to her house .. but next weekend is the absolute last chance.

I got a lot of things sorted and packed.I was able to cross a lot of things off my list.  Unfortunately, I kept thinging of things that needed to be added!  As of this morning I have 24 days to accomplish 46 items; and that’s if I don’t think of more things that need to be on the list (which as I said above, I have).

I’m getting very frustrated dealing with being in my own way.  And as glad as I am to have boxes … they are so big that most of them are very heavy.  I’ve tried to “balance” heavier items with lighter ones, but it isn’t really helping much.

Not having email benefitted in a few ways .. although, thinking about it .. maybe things would have happened the way they did anyway.  I had nice long phone conversations with DSis and DB.  I had brief conversations with DIL and TGF.  I can’t even remember a day when I’ve talked to so many people in the same day without anyone actually bing in my house!  (and not heard from SIL all week).

Even though I have so many things on my list, many of them are either things I can’t do this far ahead, things I can’t do until I have some help, or things that I only have a small amount left to do to complete the area.  For example, all cabinets and the closet in the laundry room are emptied.  (and yes, I know how fortunate I’ve been to have that wonderful laundry room).  But obviously I’m still doing laundry up until I move, so a certain amount of things are still in use.  And there are still a small group of things I’m not sure what to do with.  Plus, even though cleaning supplies are rounded up, I still need to go back through them and purge better.  With a big sprawling house I’ve had cleaning stuff in different areas; that will no longer be the case, and we will not only not need so much, we won’t have room to store so much. 

I also plan to go back through the things that are packed up for storage.  I’m pushing myself to ONLY store things that have sentimental (irreplaceable) value.  It’s very hard to give up perfectly good things just because I was *told* to not bring this or that … for no better reason than that my things just don’t seem to be “good enough”.  OK, maybe that’s not a completely fair summary .. but that’s what it feels like.  Nevertheless,  I’m trying hard to not allow myself to store anything that I really can replace if I ever need to.

That does not, so far, include the decorative stuff in the attic.  But with 24 days to go, I’m thinking that if I push hard to handle the things “nearly” done, I can find a little time to start sorting upstairs.  I absolutely refuse to just throw it all out (as some people have implied they think I should).  But I’m not stupid, I’m perfectly aware I can’t keep it all, and can’t afford to store it all.  That doesn’t mean I can’t keep *some* of it.  The weather is cooler this week .. abnormally cool for this time of year … so the room upstairs should be more bearable, at least for short periods.  If I can get up there some, I suspect there will be even more stuff to go into the yardsale (another good reason to wait one more week).

All confusion about the apartment is settled; at least I think so.  There’s still no lease signed.  After talking to DS, it seems the guy at the rental office didn’t tell her what he told me about redoing the papers because of one misspelled word.  I will call them – frequently if I need to – to make sure that gets done so I have time to get there to sign the lease. It’s a bit unnerving to have things still unsettled because of a stupid minor mistake.

When DIL gets here, I will get her to post an email for me from my Hotmail (she can access it; and I’m not comfortable with her computer) … I have come across a small number of things that I don’t think I can take to the apartment; but I don’t want to put them in the yardsale.  I don’t mind giving them away, it’s just that I’d WAY prefer to give them to family.  So I’m hoping someone can use them.  I have a wonderful huge electric roaster.  I’ve used it many times, and love it.  But it’s way too big to be able to find a place to store in the apartment; and too big to try to carry on a bus if I put it in storage .. which means it just wouldn’t ever get used.  I’d love to pass it on to someone who would enjoy it.  And I found an electric grill .. pretty sure it was a gift at one time.  It’s been used some, but then once it was stored it was forgotten.  Another thing not very practical for the apartment (we have a Foreman grill).  And I have a watering timer (I’ve already given away 2, but have one more).  At one time my yard was very pretty; but even as I was less able to get out there, my “helper” deserted me.  It no longer matters.  But the timer is a cool gadget and I’d love for someone else have use of it.

It is time to quit rambling and get the day going.  Much to do today!