Tuesday, March 5, 2013 @ 9:13 AM
Good morning. This is
us … we just put out a general note in FB stating that we’ve only got 19 days
and change before move and that CS will be coming over as our first guest –
AND, to help with the unpacking of the sewing room. We’re a little worried about her being overly
tired of that kind of work because of just moving her own place, but am
imagining that we’ve come so far with our order and organization that it won’t
be much more than an easy two day set-up.
I’ve got a lot less than she has as to fabric and equipment, PLUS we
have a place for everything so that should make time go more efficiently. We will get more feedback as we go and by
then too … she should easily have her own stuff up so that she’ll be in better
shape to be seeing MORE fabric!
There were a few other things going on in the conversation
yesterday as to straightening up some psychological blunders that I made. After that we got to talking about other stuff
going back and forth … we made sure she realized that she could take back any
of the quilt kits that she’d given us and then she said we could have a few
things too. The main one we were looking
for is to get back our ruby dishware, there are many juice glasses along with
some regular matching juice glasses (see through), and there are a few other
things like a pitcher, and some plates and bowls. We’ve got a “glassed cabinet” as a built-in
of our pass-through on the living room side, and we’d like to decorate that
with the glassware. We figured it would
be ok with CS, because she had stated that her husband wanted to sell
them. It had been something collected
for us as part of wedding gifts, so we were happy to have them back. The other thing we’re getting back is my
father’s and Sandy’s kitchen table. It
isn’t a lot, but it’s a good sound table, and it will work out in the sunroom
for guests AND Rich because he says that’s where he’ll want to do more work
over the coming warmer months. CS also
offered some lawn furniture, but we have to have permission from the land
owners and we don’t want to be dealing with all that. She also said we could have an extra BBQ, but
Rich has since then stated that he doesn’t want it. He is really happy with cooking in his
convection oven and he said since he has that … he has no plans to ever BBQ
again. Guess we’ll have to go with
that. He’s still the cook of the family.
Wow … not sure if you can really see it with this picture, but the snow is really coming down pretty now. It’s supposed to snow all day until about midnight and because of it and having trouble with a “something wrong knee/leg” yesterday we had to cancel Dr. Marvin’s appointment. He is going to call back around 1 pm to talk for a few moments. I’m so grateful he is the understanding type of Dr. Rich says that I’m not supposed to do any work with it today, and then he asked if I wanted him to write that down. I’m thinking it feels good enough to sit ourselves in front of the dresser or closet and start boxing some clothes, but we’re going to have to wait and see how that goes. I don’t know where we’ll be with it because we’re taking extra medicine for the pain. I’d hate to call me dizzy, but we’re not quite right either.
Ahh it’s almost 10 am and Rich is just leaving the house
now. He had some aggravating business
the last few moments when the customer sent TOO much stock to the door of one
of his workshops. YEEKS … hard to know
what to do there. He’s in touch with
both the shop and the customer and nobody seems happy. Hope that it’s a patient driver. He left ruffled, but at least is out on his
way … maybe he’ll feel better when he gets to the shop – people will at least
be able to blow-off the steam proper. I
think this customer is big in both size and scope and the workshop is
smaller. We’re hoping that it works out
and the shops don’t lose the work. This
job is sure making Rich work hard though L
We had a bad afternoon with Rich yesterday. He had said to take care of Dish.net. But afterward he stated he’d wanted me to
call, but not order the extra two receivers.
But, I thought in taking care of that I had the right to do that. They were in itself only $7 each (monthly),
but at the time Rich was acting as if it had broken the bank. Then I wasn’t fast enough in giving him the
information or phone although I’d emailed the receipt to him. He said we weren’t helpful. To be truthful we were very frustrated, because
he’d already gone on an on with the company last time and he was starting off
as if he never talked to them before and he had no ideas of what he was paying
for. In the end though his being on top
of it worked out, because apparently the real problem was that the service had
over-charged us in installation, basically we were billed twice for it so he
got a refund (they say) of about $160.
Just the process was very messy as between Rich and me and we ended up
back in bed with covers over our head.
He was in a much better mood after getting the credits and he was
playful with “the hider” so it wasn’t long before everything worked out, but it’s
still frightening for our system when he gets angry, especially at us. L
We’ve talked about it over and over … he’s come far enough
to understand that he yells like his mother, but he seems as of yet to be able
to control it. We start off yelling back
defensively and it’s mostly like – please don’t yell at us! But, he’s so mad and doesn’t know what to do
with it. I never knew, but thinking he
must have some high blood pressure problems.
It’s quick coming on and then quick to dissipated, but terrible in the
middle. It’s really odd too because in
most things, Rich is about the calmest most organized persons. Maybe we should go back to our thinking that
between this “hard job” at work, and the house and all that goes on with that
responsibility, he’s really on overload – especially, if it has to do with
money.
I also don’t think I helped in that between things – around the
first of it, we got a twinge in our knee/leg and then had gone to lie down, but
by the time we were ready to get up, we could barely walk without a lot of
pain. It felt like a charley horse we
couldn’t push through. Most the pain
came from trying to turn are knee from left to right or right to left. We ended up going to bed around 8-8:30 PM and
slept until 11 pm, but then we were just having the stabbing pains every couple
minutes no matter which way we turned.
So we got up and Rich was on his way to bed. He’d stayed up to watch a fishy tournament. He gave us some more pain medicine and
wrapped it and kept it heated. That
allowed us to sleep on the couch until 3 AM, and then we crawled back in bed
until about 6 am. GOOD sleep the last
part of the morning then J
Hmm, we’re a little discombobulated. We were talking to Linda and then she was
going to tackle bags in her sewing closet and a particular quilt WITH
cats! We weren’t sure how much we would
write this morning and how much we would try to do something more productive
like packing. I’d actually rather do the
packing. Rich wants us to rest our leg
though. Our thought is we could sit down
and pack so it might be ok. I’m not sure
if we mentioned but we had to cancel Dr. Marvin and now he’s sent a note saying
he will call us for a few moments at 1 pm.
Sweet!
We had found ourselves also off looking for non-slip socks ….
Ok, we did MORE looking for non-skid socks. We had to let that go too, because it meant
making decisions with money, and we KNOOOOOOW Rich doesn’t want us to be
spending money! Ok, lessen up on the
groaning!
We’re taking a break now from doing the moving stuff. We went through the dressers and packed those
with the exception of the stuff we need immediately … mostly under stuff. We’ve got a box going for pajamas and a box
going for seasonal and a few under things.
Doing pretty good with that so far, but there is really not a lot in the
dressers. I don’t think the drawers are
overly wide. It’s good enough to make
like a drawer of shorts, and a drawer of socks, etc., but not much past
that. I will have to watch the number of
pajamas I put back in it, though I really think it will be enough … my pj’s are
either silky which don’t take up a lot of room or they are flannel and still in
use. I am using the Flylady’s bags for
things to throw away and things to give away.
There’s nothing for the one that says things to put away. Basically, if it’s in the closet it didn’t
belong many other places. I found a few
things in the drawers like pony tail holders, but not much past that.
AHA! Rich is home! Whoops … he had to go right past that
smooch! He had to do umm something.
We’ve got about 12 minutes before Dr. Marvin calls. We can be patient, but maybe now won’t get to
sit in the living room. We’ll figure
that out in a couple of minutes. ANYWAY …
we got about 2/5ths of the way through my closet. I still think we have some things over in the
other closet, but we’d have to check that out after the first one is packed. We’re going to run into Rich’s stuff after a
bit in both other sides of the closets we haven’t done yet. If we were going to do a real good job today,
we would finish the closets AND do the “hard” linen closet. Even that isn’t impossible, but it might help
us to do that AND do under the bed (not much there) so we could figure out
which sheets and blankets we can use, throw, or need to buy new. I think some of our stuff is left over for a full-size
bed, but we will only have two queens.
Just gotta work through it. I
think all the sheets that have been put away have to be looked at again, because
it seems that Missy has been sleeping on some of them SOMEhow, OR, they haven’t
been used in a while so should be freshened.
Yup yup!
AHA! He said he can
stay in the back – especially, because he’s going to be working as soon as he
fixes himself a sandwich. That gives me
the comfy LR. Hmm, phone is 51% charged.
It should be ok, but I’m thinking I should have plugged it in earlier
this morning. The system isn’t perfect.
We’re still running into gray matter in sorting the
clothes. Some clothes I don’t wear
anymore, but they still fit, or I just don’t want to wear them. A couple of summer outfits remind me so much
of St. Rose and they were worn for most likely ten years … so with those … I
just figured to throw them away. It’s
repulsive to think of them. I will still
worry about clothes after it warms up and we’re not as likely to wear jeans,
but if push comes to shove … Rich might have to spring for something. It will come out of our money first, but then
he has to pay what won’t get covered that I pay for. Rich tries to leave me with $200. Mostly I just leave it in the account unless
I have to pay for something like I paid for the satellite dish for the TV, some
of the lines Rich and I draw are fuzzy, but I’m trusting him to give me
something of our disability check if I need it, that’s good, right? It’s EXTREMELY rare we will go out and spend
something at a store, but we still like to buy a book or whatnot
periodically. AND, we dream big. Wasn’t it us that orchestrated a LOT of
furniture buying AND a house of late? No
doubt, we LIKE to spend money! Just
usually not cash.
I don’t know what we should talk to Dr. Marvin about …
Mostly I think about the closing and then having been out there on Sunday.
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