Day 144

Day 144

Monday, August 18, 2014

Yesterday was a very busy and exhausting day again.  I don’t feel like I personally got as much done as I should have .. it was a bit of a “floundering” feeling all day.  I slept too late, so got off to a wonky start. It took me too long to get pulled together and dressed, and DIL was waiting for me.  But I finally got more or less “decent”, and we went to pick up the boys.  Interesting “side” note:  requested they grab my (folding) hand truck.  They brought a different one and say they don’t know anything about mine.  What on earth happened to it??  I think it would be good for leaving with the storage … I really want it returned!

A quick stop at the grocery store, and we came on back here.  I had to explain several times, especially to the younger boy, what I needed.  Even later in the day when I thought they were done, turned out there was still a few things upstairs.  But, I just didn’t explain clearly enough (and truthfully, I didn’t remember that there were 2 full size trees stored in boxes, which confused my instructions to the boys: bring down boxes but not trees).  By the end of the day, though, there is nothing left upstairs but standing trees.  This morning I will separate out the very few I will be keeping, and let the ReStore driver go up and get the rest.

My DIL stayed longer than I thought she would.  I was selfishly glad, but should have sent her earlier it seems.  The boys loaded her truck with things to go home with her (including her sister’s baby crib I still had) .. and a sudden rain shower came up.  But worse than that, by the time she got nearly home after leaving mid afternoon, she ran into heavy storms.  When she got home there  was a really heavy downpour, flooded streets, and the power was out.

During the morning my SIL came for awhile.  We visited a little, but mostly she worked on the fish pond.  She has nearly gotten it cleared all the way around (she had to move a lot of good sized rocks that were on the rim, as well as weed all the way around.  It has been there so long it had “grown in”). 

By late afternoon, not too long after dIL left, a friend came by for a visit.  I felt a little guilty just sitting and doing nothing for so long.  But, I got up extra early this morning to make up for it.  Just before she left, a little after 6:00, TGF got here to pick up the boys.  She was too tired to take the trash, but the boys put most of it in the car to be taken today.  I guess the rest will just wait.  After today, when the donations are picked up, I can just put the trash in the back hall out of the way.

After TGF left, it was suddenly quiet.  I worked a little bit longer on sorting more of the stuff brought down (unhappily giving up trees), but had to stop.

Around 9:00 another round of storms went through.  Usually the bands of storms go either north or south of me, but this time they went over.  The power even blipped, but only for seconds.  The TV and internet, of course, went out for around half an hour or so … and I was too tired to even care!

The “good” side of getting over tired is that most of the time I’m too exhausted to get over emotional.  It’s really hard having to let go of so many *treasures*  (and especially hard that things that are so important to me are so totally unimportant to anyone else).  But at times I feel like I’m just operating on “auto-pilot” and not really thinking about anything.

I don’t know what time the pick up will be, just sometime this morning.  They usually call to say they’re on the way.  I will go on and get showered early and be ready.  Then the rest of today has to be for going through the rest (or as much as I possibly can) of the stuff from upstairs.  The pile of empty boxes shows I have made a lot of progress.  The dozen or so boxes I still have to go through … and the alarmingly large pile in the “going to storage” area show that I’m not making nearly enough progress in the letting go of stuff.  I still have to finish packing up the things in the kitchen, and I feel like I have way too much kitcn stuff packed already. 

I’ve sat here and wasted a lot of my “early start”, so time to get busy.  I think it’s going to be another very long day!