Day 146
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
It gets harder and harder as moving day gets closer. And the stress level expands exponentially (I
have no idea if I used or spelled that right, but it “felt” right!).
I don’t even remember what I worked on in the morning, but
something. My DB got here by early mid
morning, and he got busy on some things that were a problem for me. The electronics are now sorted and
packed. I worked on the kitchen (he
brought me food –yay – and said I should be “camping” by now Well, I’m not as organized as I should be) ..
the dishes are packed, and most of the kitchen stuff. I think.
It still seems like there’s a lot .. I’m really having a hard time
determining what can be packed and what I’m actually using until the last
minute.
DB brought down the rest of the stuff from upstairs that the
boys “missed”.
A little before noon my SIL picked me up. She took me to the bank and I was able to
deposit her payment (a payment on the lawnmower and some yardsale items), plus
DB gave me a check for some yardsale things they had sold. It’s a relief for the bank account to not be
so low! The manager wasn’t there, but
his assistant helped me. Unfortunately,
she had trouble with her compuer, so it took a long time. But necessary changes were made. After that I
rode around with SIL while she took care of some errands. Then she took me to her house for lunch. It was 2:00 before we got there! After lunch I kept telling her I needed to
get back to work; she kept saying I needed to rest and she’d take me soon. It was after 4:00 before I got home. It was nice spending time with her (and
meeting her SIL), but I felt like I had “lost” way too much time.
I did, however, finish sorting all the remaining things that
had been brought down. There is now
another Huge pile of stuff in the donation area.
My biggest concern today is that I have a big pile of things
in the living room to be gone through, and a lot of them I don’t know what to
do about. I have some framed
certificates of some sort that I think belonged to my parents. Sadly, no one wants them any more (and maybe
this is partly why letting go of so much of mine … at least the things that
were important to my parents aren’t being discarded until after they’re
gone. Letting go of things that matter
to me … no matter how easily they *could* be replaced …. Feels like just
throwing my life away. Yes, I know, they
are just “things”. But they matter to
me.) Anyway, I need to decide if I toss
the whole thing or try to take them out of the frames and just toss the
paper. I will have to deal with that
today.
By dark I had pretty much done what I could. The only lamp not “packed” is the one by the
computer; and since the bright overhead lights hut my eyes, I had to deal with
the dark.
One great development last night, though, is that the people
finally came and got their table and chairs (bought nearly 2 months ago). It was dark before they got here, and the
door was opened awhile .. but fortunately, I’ve not seemed to be plagued by an
excess of gnats or mosquitoes.
This morning I was awake by a little after 4:00 again. This
is so frustrating! I managed to wait
until 5:00 to get up, but by then I realized I just had too much on my
mind. I have moved around a lot of the
stuff left in the den. One thing that
occurred to me that we haven’t addressed yet was the a/c unit! So I moved the stuff that was in front of
that so it can be removed.
I need to get showered and dressed earlier today, and I need
a “game plan”. I think I will start at
the back, and make sure everything that has to go to the apartment is moved or consolidated in as few areas as
possible. I need to finish packing the
kitchen. I need to take time to do some
shredding (all old checks, leaving only the book in my purse … I will have new
ones in a few weeks, and I need very few).
I need to confirm with DN that she doesn’t want the braided rug, because
I see no point in storing that .. it can be donated. Either way I need to vacuum and roll it; just
need to know where it has to be. And I
have to move that stuff that needs to be sorted that’s on top of the rug. Duh. I
also have to find out if she wants the trunk that came out of her mom’s attic
years ago. And if she doesn’t want it I
need to find out if DSis wants it back or not.
Too many questions!!
I think I also need to sort the box where I’ve been tossing
extenstion cords and power strips .. I have WAY more than DN and I can possibly
need. I need to cull that down to a more
reasonable number and then decide what to do with the rest. I don’t want to just throw them away; I don’t know if any family members will want
them. Most people don’t live in old
houses with wonky electric like mine!!
I don’t know what DB has in mind for today; I know he was
working on assembling shelves yesterday.
He has mentioned the possibility of taking trash to the landfill and/or
taking the load of donations to the Good Will store (who will accept the things
the ReStore wouldn’t take). Either or
both of those jobs could take a lot of time … and not be at all fun when today
is going to be one of the few actually HOT days we’ve had this summer. I’d love to be able to take a truck load to
the apartment … but I wouldn’t love not having young helpers to get things up
the stairs! LOL!
It’s already daylight.
I should have gone on and gotten up at 4:00! I will go find something to
work on for awhile, then get a shower.
It’s going to be a long day!!
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