One NEW Day At A Time
Day 10
Monday, September 1, 2014
It’s Monday. It’s
September 1st. Everything
starts “new” today. Well, sort of
anyway.
Yesterday was not as completely as productive as I would
have liked; but it was still a good day.
It was nice, in a way, that DS and family were all able to stay here and
seemed to sleep fairly comfortably (excep the kids said they were too cold. I had brought out all the covers I could, but
the tote with extra blankets is still in storage). After getting up, DS went out for KK
donuts! What a lovely treat. I continued to sort through boxes and figure
what to do with things. And, as seems to
be “usual” now, various items go back into a box to go to storage.
DS took me to the new pharmacy to get my eye drops. Then we went over to the (too expensive)
market for some lunch things. After
lunch, they started gathering things together.
They took all the flattened boxes with them. That was sort of funny. On the landing half way down the stairs (3
sets of half flights .. they went down just the first) there’s a big open
window with no screen. So, DS
dragged stacks of boxes down the half
flight, and threw them out the window!
DGD15 stood out of the way but on the sidewalk to make sure no one got
clobbered. And DGS13 quickly picked up
stacks and carried them to the truck.
The whole process .. more than 30 boxes .. took only minutes!
After they left I played hookey awhile, then got back to work. I cleaned and did some organizing in the
living room, and continued working on boxes.
I am slowing down, as a lot of them now are things that go in places
that are occupied by other boxes! I don’t
even know how much is left in storage that are earmarked to come here … which
will also mean there wil be some (hopefully not much) to be returned to
storage. On Friday I had a large pile of
returns. Today so far I only have one
partial box. Progress!
DIL called when they got home, pretty late. Along the way
they actually found one missing lampshade, which surprised me a lot! They got to the house and took the washeer,
dryer, and a cedar trunk. So things are
being moved out. I finally gave in … out
of desperation … and let a friend of TGFs buy the freezer with payments. At least it will get out of the house. Things are (very very slowly) falling into
place. The one huge hurdle I don’t know
what to do about is the amount of junky stuff outside. I hope to retrieve some of the big plants to
put outside the entrances here .. but the way things are lining up, I may not
get to do that. And there’s a lot of
stuff that mostly just needs to go to the dump; and I have not been able to
have that done yet. I simply don’t hae
the $$ to pay someone to haul it off.
I will call the ReStore driver to make arrangements for him to go over
on next Tuesday to get anything that’s
left there. And my housekeeper friend
will be going on that Thursday to clean the empty house.
The whole process makes me nervous, because I have no
control over people who say they will do something and then don’t bother … and
leave me to pay the price. I never
totally wanted to have to leave; but since it was the only practical thing to
do, I want it to hurry up and be done!
I don’t know what time DN will be back home today. I need to go on and shower and be ready for
whatever this day brings.
No comments:
Post a Comment