Day 94
In my infinite wisdom and exhaustion, I did it again. Wrote but saved the post as a draft and did not publish last night’s blog. So, tonight I post 2 … in keeping with my 365 days of lobsters!
The moving truck arrived today … the small truck. The BIG one comes tomorrow. I am in trouble. Big, BIG trouble.
Because, in all honesty, it makes me quite nervous that this tiny little place is practically bursting at the seams already! WHAT is in that other truck?! WHERE am I going to put all that STUFF?
I guess we’ll find out in the morning! Eeek.
I have few cabinets and only 2 drawers in the kitchen … I’m a kitchen nut so this will need some creativity to get my things in there to my liking. And my bedroom has no closet. Hmmm. Nudity is not an option so I guess I’ll just have to put my clothes in the main floor guest room! Not greatly convenient but I’ll figure it out.
I am now thinking it’s a really good thing I don’t have a hamster because I certainly wouldn’t have any room for him ANY WHERE!
Today I did my best to kill off both my parents before I am even moved in. Wonderful.
My dad, nearing 84, worked on his knees most of the morning securing the bottom of the fence so the dogs don’t escape. When he wasn’t on his knees in the dirt he was fixing the cranks on the windows and doing other stuff that handymen do and know how to do and love to do. I was busy with the movers and let him do his thing which was really fixing my things which made me feel tremendously guilty that my 84 year old father was crawling around fixing my stuff but then figured he must like it on some level. I hope so. He must be exhausted.
The killing off of him could have been by the sheer volume of work done and the hours put in and lugging of heavy tools and whatnot. And if that wasn’t going to do the trick … the falling off the dining room landing almost did! Great. (He was not hurt … good thing!)
An hour later my mom missed the step down from the kitchen and flew through the empty dining room catching herself on the pillars before, she too, would have gone head first off the dining room landing. NOT GOOD. (She didn’t fall but is sucking down Advil.)
Steps? Landings? I have to explain. The new house has a sunken dining room (1 step down from the kitchen) and then there are 2 steps down from the dining room to the family room … but the dining room is also missing a wall. I don’t know why there isn’t one there but I intend on putting one up – it’s just goofy. And in any case, I need more wall space!
I have yet to fall down or miss a step … I save that for graduations and the like! However, the ceilings are slanted upstairs and I’ve hit my head several times so far. I’m thinking of wearing a helmet for awhile!
In any case, the move is going well. The animals have settled nicely into “grandma and grandpa’s”. My mom fed the dogs cat food today and cottage cheese. She thought it was dog food. The dogs thought they had died and gone to heaven! Cat food is sooo tasty! Cottage cheese is almost as good. I think I’ll have a hard time telling them we have to leave tomorrow and go to our new place … they’ll want to stay!
One truck down … one to go. Stay tuned!