Good morning Linda. Did you get Emily's quilt loaded? Or, will
that be first thing this morning? What's happening over at Lindaland? It's
about 7:20 AM here. Rich just left to have coffee with Bob. We were getting a
bit crabby. He was being negative and it was like ok, you can leave now! We
have things to be doing. Don't you want
to go out with Bob? Soon? I was getting terrible. And, then after he hits the
first step down we remember to tell him we love him BLAH! Sure couldn't have
proved it this morning. We told him ... we're being crabby ... BUT, that
doesn't really dismiss the part it is my responsibility to then get out of it.
We did for the record then take our medicine. GOOD Ann’s!
Last night we packed a couple more boxes so we're up to 9! YAY! Moving
guy for the estimate is coming by at 2:30-3:00 PM. I hope Rich is here because
he always thinks I messed it up somewhere. Not a lot, but it will avoid him
some stress to talk to the movers in his own language. Anything that saves some
stress is good. For the record, we were ancy last night in that when we had to
pause to let Rich catch up with the bagging of mulch, then we'd go back into
the other room to see what could be done next. Rich is going to stop at the
U-Haul place to get my wrapping paper on the way home from Bob's SOOO we're
going to wait and then pack the china so we can gain access to the closet.
We're pushing Rich for an alternative date in case the movers can't do the
25th. I want sooner, and he’s being indecisive ... hopefully he'll figure
another date when he comes home and checks his computer. We'll see. Again,
hopefully he'll be here.
When he gets back we get to place the order for the chairs. We
both needed his credit card, then he'll pay from the savings account my
mother's check is in. YAY!!! We figured out how much more we want to spend.
We're still looking at the poker and table tennis. Together we've gotten it
down to $800. The poker table is a board/felt/cushion thing that sits on top of
the existing table. That saves quite a bit of money. And the Table tennis table
is a little more because it is an indoor/outdoor table. I also like that it
comes in two complete separate tables, so it is easier to move. I still want it
in the sunroom, but the alternative would be the garage. One way or another I
want it to withstand outdoor temperatures because I don’t think the sunroom is
heated/cooled like the inside of the house. I'm so excited about it. Rich
hasn't said no yet, but he hasn't said yes either. Both these would come from
Sears and be delivered. The two leftover items would be that Rich wants an
outdoor patio set for the sunroom and his bike. We're hoping that he goes with
a recumbent bike because it's easier to sit in, and we're not so positive on
the patio set, because it will compete with space for the table tennis table.
PLUS we already have chairs for that room. It's a tossup.
There back again. Our Internet page was a little goofy so we
posted so we wouldn't lose what we had. It's now about 7:44 AM. We told you the
part that Rich has "left the building!" I was real appreciative that
Nikki saw some of our posts over the last couple of days and has volunteered to
come over and help. We had the one project in mind in putting up things in the
sewing room - shelf by shelf, and then maybe helping us take down from this end
and pack the books. Everything else i think I'm good for. Those other things I
can do, but admit as to the shelves either packing the books from here, OR
reloading onto the shelves from the sewing room, would best be a two person
job. I'd like to take a walk-through with her too to plan on where the extra
stuff goes. Rich is in charge of the kitchen, but it just be fun from a girl's
perspective to think through some things out loud. Plus, I'd love for her to claim some
ownership feelings in the place. Basically, I want her to be comfortable and
for the girls to have sleepovers ... yeah you knew we were going there, right?
We had a good visit with Rich's family the other night. We're
still dealing with angry issues from Bud, because he is so critical of
everything. I only got in one of the disputes with him. He was saying that my
windows were little and there was no light coming in. I knew he was wrong, because
the windows were either double wide or regular wide, but they were almost down
to the floor where his are higher. After a few skirmishes, we got out our phone
and showed him the pictures, but he still wouldn't admit he was wrong ... BUT
he was. He's just argumentative. He continues to tell people basically that
they are not good enough. Nothing his wife does is good enough and he's very
critical that Rich can't take care of property including the little space of
grass we have. That's just crazy!
We talked about it with Mark and Rich on the way back to
bringing Mark to his truck. He was going to sleep in it overnight, because he
has been having trouble respecting Bud too. We asked him what the problem had
been, and he said that Bud was jealous of what we were getting so it was his
way of evening things out. Bud had told Mark too that we were getting something
too luxurious. Excuse me? If it's in the price range - why not get the best of
what we can? Do we deserve less? I don't know ... there's going to be some hot
button issues if he thinks he's coming over to unload all that negativity on us
after we move.
Mark though HAVING a truck driver's mouth was actually nice to
be around. He tries to be a gentleman around me and we appreciate that he loves
his brother like we do and although the family in general is competitive with
their thoughts as being the right ones ... Mark is still a nice guy. We hope he
takes advantage and does some of his sleepovers with us. It wouldn't be as much
stress on him as being with his mother, and he's taking medicine to hopefully
stop smoking. That would be the bad part of things. We've been talking about
the smoking and it is still causing problems. I don't want to insult Rich's
mother by making her stay out in the sunroom, but that will be our designated
smoking space. AND she'll be by the window AND we'll get a smoking fan to draw
the smoke odors. Hmm, shoot forgot that's on our shopping list too. We were
thinking it be a good time to introduce her to whatever electric cigarette Jon,
Rich's son is using so he can handle being in his mother's house without
smoking. It would give her something of an alternative in the kitchen where she
would I am sure prefer to be sitting. We'll have to see. I think we're going to
ask Rich to get the information and then just provide it at the house, if she
will try it. We'll see.
Seems like we are a chatty Cathy this morning; chances are we'll
transfer this note over to the blog entry. We get started and writing to you
feels so close to writing in the blog that it just merges as one. The
difference is that when we address a letter to you, Dr. Marvin or the girls,
then we feel as if we are covering your areas we talk to you about. On our end,
I'm not really a private person, is that noticeable? Hehehe
Maybe at this point, we'll end here though and then go to
readdress some other issues we're having in our thoughts that are probably more
boring and better suited for the blog. See you soon! Is tony home today by the
way?
LOVE YOU!
Us
Ok, ok … we’re back to our normal blog writing. Linda you will have to catch-up from here J
This is by the way as far as we got with the moving last
night. It feels good to be this
organized.
#1
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Sewing Room – Shelves
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Color scraps especially from ironing table and pink shelves
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#2
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Sewing Room – Shelves
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Scrap fabric by size and irregular, stray pieces and Gramma’s boxes
from shelves and table top, pens
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Suitcase
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New Sewing Machine
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FRAGILE – rug upholster
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#3
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Sewing Room – Shelves
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Tread, Gramma’s Brick-a-brack, odd pieces from shelves
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#4
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Sewing Room – Storage
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Gramma’s White sheets/backing, free-stitch samples/learning, ironing
sleeve, round turntable
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#5
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Sewing Room – Shelves
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Batting, applique rolls & stabilizer, old cross-stitch, old calendars,
and gorilla quilt
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#6
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Sewing Room – Shelves
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Baskets, light box, rulers, stencils, Olfa, square cutting mat
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#7
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Sewing Room – Tables
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Ironing pads, sewing table inserts, ruler holders, irons, thread
catcher, drafting table supplies, markers, & pens
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#8
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Sewing Room – Shelves
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Majority of quilting books, decorative fabric rolls, CD’s and
pictures
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#9
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Sewing Room – Shelves
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Magazines, flat books, stuffed animal, and red poncho from Roger
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Canvass Bag
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Old Sewing Machine
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FRAGILE – Blue Bernina bag
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Canvass bag
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Sewing Room – Storage
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CS fabric kits – heavy - red canvas bag that includes directions and
fabric both loose and kits
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Today, we continue in the sewing room, but hopefully we’ll
start with my Grandmother’s china after Rich gets back with the paper. I have probably gone over this before, but
after the china gets packed and we move the baker’s rack from in front of the
door, then we can take down the canvas shoebox holder from the closet and
restack it in the empty under bed thingy from Linda’s scraps that have already
been ironed and folded. That should also
clear up a little more clutter from the table.
I see next moving the fabric that is on the shelves or out in the open
and then placing most of those plastic bins in the closet with the others WITH
the goal of being able to shut the tops YAY!!! There’s at least one maybe more
that has to be packed under the table.
Then we will move anything else under the table including some empty
cases and our rolling bin, so we can move the table. I’ll ask Rich to disconnect the TV
first. Then hopefully Rich will help us
getting down the rest of the quilt kits on top and that is going to take a lot
of boxes and I’m not sure we have that many, but we will see. We have to remember packing the upper part of
the closet too. We’re going to assure
that we have a separate stash of fabrics just for the ones’ that are used only
as backings. We really don’t have too
much regular fabric, but the stuff we do have, we’ll make sure to fold
uniformly.
We see the kits as going on top of the shelves, and we see
the linen closet being used for the regular fabrics and we’ll continue using
the white canvas bags in the guest closet with bins underneath. I think it is going to be a big enough
closet. Rich’s extra closet in his room
will be used for extra coats and sports clothing for his officiating. We had to do that to deal with there being no
real closets toward the front or back door.
I think we’ll still have to get something for the breeze way. Rich said we could put a couple of the old
chairs so someone can sit down to put on or take off anything, but we see that
as only a start. I believe there is
another linen closet by the master bath and that will fill-up soon enough with
towels and ALLL that stuff we have in our regular linen closet like supplies
and stock of assorted items. We will
want to check out those containers at the bottom of the closet to see if
something can be done there to make them more useful. Maybe there will be containers we can use to
move the underwear and sock drawers.
Just they will be done at the end.
There might be some old towels and sheets and tablecloths down there
that we’ve forgotten about. We’ll have
to check. Rich also said something about
finding or getting new linen for the spare bedroom.
Pswhoo! That was a
rough spell. Rich called to say that the
place I sent him for the papers was closed, so then we came up with an
alternative and assured him they had stocked, but then he said it would take
him a half a day, but when we looked it up it’s less than 5 miles away and it
would have taken 13 minutes one way.
Damn he can make me crabby. So he
came home without paper and he stuck me as to not being able to pack the china.
Now as a second back-up plan besides
being cranky again, we’ll move the china to the kitchen counter and then we’ll
manhandle the baker’s rack on our own, AND we WILL get to that closet! HMFP!
Ok, calming down again … we just took a few moments and we
ordered the two chairs. He’s going to
send me an email to confirm the order, but it should be smooth. We won’t however know the ship date yet,
because the chair has to be made with our particular cloth and they can only
give us an estimate and he said he was going to put the ship date LATER like
4-6 weeks, just to cover them. He said
they will get a date in a couple of days and then when it arrives, they will
coordinate the delivery time. We will
look forward, but as to now not much to be done until things all happen in the
right amount of time. Can’t rush these
things. I’m glad we started a couple of
weeks in advance. Just gotta calm down …
we’re looking to get that email in.
Again PATIENT right? In the
meantime, we picked-up the place including dishes, bed, and moving the
clothes. I should probably start a load
of laundry … it is that time. Sigh.
Ok, we’re good. We
started a load of wash clothes. Roberto
surprised me by sticking his head around the corner. He said there is bad news and good news. I thought oh my gosh there’s going to be a
problem. But, then he said the bad news
is that we’re leaving and the good news was that we were getting our own
place. I’ll miss him. We’ll check with him to see if we ever needed
the help, could we pay him to come out.
He did say he did some work out there before and knows where it is. That was nice. I’m REALLY going to miss him. He’s always taken care of us well. I worry about Rich getting to things like
hanging curtains and such, but we’ve both agreed to go with what’s there for
the time being.
There we took care of the chairs and now Linda is on
line. We got a lecture from her and it
sounded like she was scolding me for not keeping Rich’s wishes in check. And, then she made sure to note that our
Grandchildren don’t come over often. So,
then our feelings got hurt. But, we let
her know that we heard her, but it didn’t feel good. She’s ok, just that we’ve been grouchy.
We’re back now. We
had to say good-bye to Rich because he said he needed a box packed in a half
hour. It turned out it took 32 minutes,
but we were close. He’s gone now and all
the natives can calm down again. That
reminds me … we were going to take an extra stress pill this morning. I think we’re due.
Good-good that’s done.
We’re finding the problem with Pandora … Damn commercials. *sigh,* but it’s free right? We emptied the dishwasher while we were out
there. That was a good deal. I’m not sure if I took one or two pills. I couldn’t remember if we took one when we
first went out into the kitchen and then did dishes, or if we hadn’t done that
yet. I guess the worse possibility will
be that we’re mega-relaxed. *sigh*. We’re going downstairs in 25 minutes to get
the clothes. Thankfully, Rich changed
the load when he was bringing down boxes.
We were going to ask him, but he asked if he could do it for me … that
was nice. We’ll do that and fold the
clothes, and then vacuum the living room floor, and then take our shower and
get dressed. That way we’ll be ready for
the mover with plenty of time. We caught
up to Rich’s mulch product, so we’ve got nothing to do there.
Hmm, then the next thing would be bringing the dishes to
somewhere so when Rich comes home we can wrap them. I’m thinking that if we cleared my cutting
board table and put the fabric over on the sewing machine table, we’d be more
comfortable doing the dishes from our sewing room chair rather than the kitchen
table. So that will be the plan after we
calm down AFTER the shower. Do you ever
get tired of me piecing together moment to moment plans? We’re thinking the organizing is a great part
of us writing in our blog. I don’t know
what I would do without this avenue of thought. Shhh, it will be ok.
Linda is out for a good part of the day. We forgot to ask when she’s coming home, but
she’s out to lunch PLUS with one of her old friends she hasn’t seen in a long
while. I’m hoping that she has a good
time. I think if I were out with an old
friend, there would be a glass of wine too!
But, we’re thinking that’s not really Linda’s style. Silly Linda!
We had something special happen yesterday in that an old
friend from as far back as the second grade, LuAnn Sims, who lives now in
Colorado shared with us that she also lives in a mobile home. I was so glad to hear someone else talk about
it. The other one that mentioned it was
Cathy Rainwater-Crowder. She quilts AND
she also lives in a MFG home – she says for 12 years now. I guess I just didn’t know too many people
before who had done it other than Rich’s mother. Though to be fair, Sandy my Dad’s second wife
had lived in a mobile home before they got their place. Before they got their home, my father sold
his place and they both lived in the mobile home. I remember seeing it at the time and really
liking that there was a sunken living room.
It doesn’t even begin to compare though to our new place. Just so proud
of it. I enjoyed seeing too the pictures
of LuAnn’s home. She gave us pictures of
the outside and the kitchen before she moved in. It was very nice to get her note. Feel like we all have to stick together Hehehe.
Ok, looking good. We
folded the whites and put them away, and then we vacuumed AND it’s still before
noon. As soon as we can we’ll move onto
the shower. Just need to let the back
pain subside. BLAH! We also folded our couch blanket. NOW the cats can come back out again. They really never got used to the vacuum. It seems to be their cue to skedaddle. Eh, be the life of a cat.
I have to say that I’m feeling better, less crabby. I feel like things are in control again. I wish I could be like this all the time, but
I guess under the medicine we’re a mess L Just have to keep working on it.
In other news? Oh
yeah … we got a pop too! It must be the
afternoon! YAY!!!
Well, I suppose that we are calmed down enough to maybe step
in the shower? Why don’t we get that
taken care of right away. BRB
AHA! DONE! We’re moving along this morning J Just checked our email and FB too. We also cleaned up the email a little in
unsubscribing to several organizations mostly to do with looking at
houses. I don’t have to look
anymore. We also called Rich and asked
him again to call Charlie. He keeps
putting it off. Then he complained because
he was working and about ready to be at the second appointment and then he
complained about having to stop somewhere for boxes. We told him right off Roosevelt and 20th
just down Maple … He’s just making life complicated. It seems that as soon as we get ourselves
calmed down we get riled up again. Just
a little one this time though. We’re
thinking that he is feeling a lot of stress with all the money and details that
need to be taken care of. We told him we’d
do the packing … just needed the paper is all.
We’re not so liable to carry a 25 lb. box up those stairs. *sigh* ok, ok … no use complaining too. We’ve been working hard to get over
that. We have 2 – 2 ½ hours before the
mover gets here for the estimate. I’ve
only really got a couple choices left.
We are either packing or writing.
Hey! I have been working! AND, writing is part of my job/life too,
right? Hmm, still defensive. Girl, girl, girl – you got it bad! I know that when Linda gets back she’s going
to ask me if I’ve been packing.
*SIGH* Shhhh. You can do this, you know? Maybe if I walked back there for just a few
minutes and came up with our next plan.
That seems to have been working this morning so far. Ok, grab a sandwich AND our powers of
observation!
WOW! It’s been a
whirlwind. We did go back in the sewing
room, and we moved a few things around.
Basically, we grouped stuff that had been under the sewing machine table
… SHOOT Rich is back and we’re already growling at each other. Didn’t mean that to happen … just wanted him
to put his chair back, so Thom had a place to sit, BUT, that was goo
complicated, because he thought he’d bump his supply of product. We like backed out real fast, but just don’t
know why things are so escalated. Rich
is quick to raise his voice. He DID
bring home the paper though so we’re grateful for that. Did you hear the part in-between? Thom is coming over! He had called yesterday or the day before,
but we hadn’t heard it, so we called him back and because he has a holiday off
for work (President’s Day), he said it would be easier to stop by then to talk
over the phone. That was a good deal for
us AND fortunately because the guy was coming for the movers, everything is
picked-up and we’re in good order. Well
as much as one can be with all the boxes.
LOTS of them.
Anyway just to finish up in the sewing room. We collected some stuff from under the table
and grouped it, and then we did some more clearing of things like the table,
and we washed it so that we could bring over the China and NOW Rich is home
with the paper, SOOOO We’ll be good to go on wrapping that. I might steal a peek through to see what that
looks like! Oh man! It’s so cool!
It’s great big sheets like 30 x 18 or something close to that … it lays
out on the table flat … and you just put the dish on top of it and then pull up
the paper around it. It’s a real nice
weight AND it’s clean. We’ll have plenty
left over. Rich got the 10# boxes and
one should have been sufficient. Cool
cool wrapping paper for a long time. We
just have to use color crayons to decorate!
Wow … fun stuff! We never had
better!
Hmm, now we’re all confused again. WELL, let’s see Rich came home, Thom is
coming over, the mover is coming and we’ve been moving around the house doing
one thing or another. That’s some pretty
exciting flood of stuff happening. Thom
didn’t know about the move, but the first thing was that he didn’t know that we
were moving exactly. He had heard
something, but no details. And, then he
said why would we move from an apartment to a mobile home, but then we
explained that it was paid for, and much nicer than our place, and on the first
floor WITH washer and we’d own it, but the rent of the land. Just have to show people for them to
understand. He also thought that it was
a far way out, but I think that it’s doable, just that people have to push
their comfort zone. Our boys like never
go toward the farming community, except when Joe lived out in DeKalb for his
college. There … we put up the pictures from our blog so that he could look at
them.
We talked about him maybe looking for an apartment and then
of course we suggested ours, or the one downstairs. I can hear them now working on it. Maybe Thom could stop by and ask about
it. Maybe just general workman in there
though. Thom was looking for something
around $1000, and this one is less, and if the first floor isn’t rented, that
should be less too AND on the first floor.
Our place is just 18 minutes or less than 9 miles from the center of Oak
Park where he is working with Chris. Eh,
just an idea. We like this place and it’s
got a good landlord, just that it’s old (seventies) and I’m thinking that Thom
will look for something more updated and that he would have a washer and dryer
and all. Eh, we can just put it out
there. I think he wants to be closer to
Oak Park where his uncle lives and he’s still thinking about Villa Park or
Lombard the two areas over where his father used to live that he’s still
comfortable with AND especially because his son Austin is there.
Ok, we’re back and it’s about 12:31AM early Tuesday
morning. We’re still up and a bit
hyper. We’ve got a lot to do yet with
the moving and after about 10:30-11 PM, Rich went to bed. We had been working together on the piece
work and before we’d take a couple of hours nap, so we’re thinking that is the
problem … just maybe adrenaline from the day.
Having all this stuff happening, PLUS having a mover AND Thom! Wow what a wonderful day to see Thom – the other
was just like a lot going on. We had a
little problem before the nap because a younger part had been out that was
overly tired. She didn’t like so much
either the crazy wind outside tonight. It went from 52 and rainy today to now
it is 30 degrees with light snow and mist and the wind is at 19 MPH. It’s supposed to get down to 16 degrees
tonight with 30% chance of precipitation and tomorrow is a VERY cold day at 3
degrees and blasts up to 30 mph. But Sunday it will be 43 degrees. Hey go figure?!
I think we’re going to get off those thoughts, although
first a flicker of memory goes to the warm fire place at the new place. Thom had said he hoped that it would be warm
enough and those thoughts of the walls and insulation being thick enough is
real enough. I think they’ve come a long
way from them being pencil thin and poorly heated, but we won’t know that until
we actually try it out. We’ve come too
far to back out now.
BTW … Rich finally did call Charlie this afternoon. That was nice. He seemed ok with the news and Rich gave him
the address so he could see where went to.
There was really no explanation why we’d gone to the other realtor. Just a fluke really – we had seen the listing
for the other place and so had called THAT realtor, and then when that got a
different offer that night, we looked again and saw our place, but then you
might recall that right? Just figured
that it be better to look at a mobile home with someone who was more familiar
with them. Think we made the right
choice, just feel bad that Charlie didn’t make his commission.