Tuesday, March 12, 2013 @ 7:53 AM
Good morning! This is
just me. AHA! In the shower and the place is picked up by 8
AM! Great start to a day. We’ve been up for almost two hours and haven’t
gotten much done except appreciate our social world online. Man-o-man do I love that space!
We’re a bit scattered … now it is 9:33 AM and I’m not sure I
could say that we have much accomplished since the last paragraph. We did do our sinks and that’s a start and
not only is we showered, but we’re dressed to the tie-up shoes. We’re in a Flylady zone in our brain. We’re expecting Rich home in about a half
hour. He called this morning just to let
me know where he was in his schedule.
I think part of the reason we’re so scattered is that in our
mind we’re somewhere between our old house and our new one so kind of floating
in our mind there. We finally closed
down the Flylady stuff because we couldn’t find current stuff and it was
driving us a little nutty. We turned on
Pandora … it’s playing one of my favorites, “Time to say goodbye.” It is tuned into things that are similar to
Sarah Brightman. I’m hoping it will help
me clear our head.
There are so many nice things that happened between now and
basically, Thursday when we last wrote.
We did post pictures from Friday of the place so we won’t do that again,
but I have to tell you that we live in that space. When we are feeling lost we look back at the
pictures taken especially of the main rooms with the kitchen REALLY being a
favorite. Right now we are looking at
the one where the camera faces OUR chair!
We’re talking about the green cushioned chair from the new bar stool
set. We have found that we’re better
with the ones without backs, because of our weight. I’m hoping though that our guests are
comfortable in the regular chairs. We
can do them, but don’t really like the tightness. Rich would be saying we could be doing
something about that? *sigh* Ok, moving on
I can honestly say we wish that we were sitting in that
chair directly, but we’re also figuring that there will be so many nice areas
in the new home that we won’t know where to sit. We got a call saying that the recliners will
be here on Saturday (about one week before the big move). On last Friday we got a LOT of stuff. Basically, the bed came in, and the kitchen
chairs, and the Dish TV. The bar stools
were already there, and then yesterday, we got the Internet hooked up. I feel like we’ve said this a dozen
times. We keep going over it in our head
as if we’re going to forget something.
One of the nicest things that happened is that Maury, Nikki,
Jade and Jasmine were then over on Saturday to share the new house with
us. I think it made a good first
impression even without the majority of the furniture. Between the bar stools for dinner and the
kitchen chairs in the sitting room afterward, it was really nice. And, people seemed to feel good about getting
up and down, using the washrooms or for the kids finding empty rooms to
practice their dances. Maury teased me
at one point right before they left in that he assured that all three bathrooms
were happening at the same time. He was
the first to use the kitchen bathroom – he’s a silly kid! Love the dickens out of him.
I was so happy Maury and his girls were over. It felt like one of the most natural things
to be having him lean against the chairs and to be engaged between a six-way
conversation. It’s fun to get a new house
and then have someone come in who is interested in talking about it. I’m hoping that happens some more before it
gets old. Right now its evolving with
things getting added. I can imagine far
down the road – talking years ahead now that we’ll continue to do things that
will get us excited. I don’t think
people in apartments do so much due to the limitations of their landlords.
Rich has been talking about making a “to-do” list for the
house and for the supplies and other objects that we’re going to want – AND pay
for. It’s been a little overwhelming so
far, but we’re going to get there. Going
back to Flylady as she tells us to shine the sink and put on our shoes is a
good first foot forward. There’s so many
thoughts to be having. I know it is a
good thing to write things down and then build-in some routines.
Last night was another break in the hundreds of thoughts
going into the new place when the “alert-people” called from Rich’s Mom’s
place. She’d been overly drunk and
disorderly again and had told the police that her husband was beating her. Rich went out there and met several police at
their house. It was decided that they
were both very angry at each other, not sure of the physical stuff … depend on
who you ask. One way or another Bud left
last night. Not sure if he wanted to or
had to. Not sure what kind of night Rich
had with her. It’s really sad
sometimes. I don’t think she would look
at it this morning as if there were anything particularly wrong with police
being at her house because of quarreling with her husband. Rich will let me know where he has to be or
what he is doing pro-actively. We’d so
help we could help take off some of the burden by being out there – four miles
at least from their place. We will
continue to hope so.
We’re back. We’ve
been talking to Linda, but she mysteriously disappeared and didn’t come
back. Most likely something happened to
her computer and she had trouble getting back online, or just decided to move
on with her day. She was planning on
being on the bike and then working on the big V-ger quilting machine. LOTS for her to do today!
There’s only twenty minutes before we leave for Dr.
Marvin. Rich is going over an
officiating online test for baseball.
Enough good words cannot be said about him. He’s very hardworking and faithful as a St.
Bernard. Maybe more … he doesn’t drink!
Let’s see what else can be said in so little time?
I am looking forward to seeing Dr. Marvin. He has seen the pictures we took on Friday
and responded with a nice note yesterday.
We are so beholden to him. He
makes our heart pitter-patter! Well, obviously
not the same way as Rich, but damn fine!
It seems that we’ve been talking about harder stuff of
late. It might start out with something
we are going through, but there is less complaining and more trying to figure
out how to fix-it. Linda and us talked
too today about stuff that seems to be changing in our life and maybe it’s more
toward attitude. No one knows how long
we’ll be able to maintain all this happiness, especially with housekeeping
involved, but we really are into Flylady right now. Maybe I just don’t have any other real life
examples of how to keep pace with my immediate life. I think we could go as far as to think we
might look in on her sessions of saving dinner.
I would like to find things that I can cook – and then sometimes cook
for our man. Wouldn’t that be
something. But, maybe we are all way out
far ahead of ourselves?
I don’t know … we’ve so far washed the kitchen up several
times including cabinets, drawers, counters, and floors. It’s like we’re trying to make good with
her! And, we give her a lot of positive
vibes sitting with her while we’re at the home.
I’m not sure if the kitchen stool will always be my homebase. It has a lot of completion with the desk area
and this computer, not to mention the sewing and sitting room areas. BUT, Man-o-man endorphins running all over
the place!
As of today, there are only 13 more days before the
move. In general … we have work on the
bigger closets and the kitchen. I know
that our aim is to move without really stressing out. Well, the one day we could really stress-out –
the actual day we’re making plans by not being at the old house. That came out in conversation with Rich the
other day. We were planning and figuring
how to do the kitchen. Rich conceded
that he might stay out there an overnight two nights before we move. He hasn’t allowed us to stay out yet, so we
were ecstatic. He was talking about
bringing the majority of the clothes over by then AND the dishes. So from that point we’d eat over at the new
house.
The really instrumental thought put out there next by me was
that … Saturday would be the last day we saw the old place. This would be obviously the 23rd. Looking at it now would mean as well that
that will be the day we move the cats over.
It will have to be in their box and they will have to be kept in the box
when the movers are there and then maybe put in the back bathroom area for when
everyone was around. Not sure. I think they like to see what is
happening. They’ve been through this
three times now … I can’t think they will remember much from the last
time. I’m just hoping I don’t startle
them into a heart attack or something. I
can’t give the cats overnight to any of the kids though because they all have
the dogs. YEEKS! That wouldn’t work any better. I think with the box they also have the
feelings that no one can get at them. I
hope so. If we had a door in the laundry
room we would close that, but there will be so many moving around not trusting
that anyone wouldn’t open a door. Best
to keep them in the box and get them out as soon as possible. They are used to hiding when people come over
here, and we’re thinking the movers won’t take much more than 3-4 hours. That’s our best guess.
Thing is they’d be able to get used to the place a bit
without the furniture and just having a quiet time with Rich and us so that
they can get past the move, before they have to get past the moving and the
movers. A new house is one thing … but
everything out of order has to be challenging to them. I’d actually like to put them up where the
microwave and toaster are going to go … they’d be up on the counter in the
box. It would be on the back laundry
wall so out of the way, but yet able to see where people were going or
doing. After a while it would break into
a routine of people movement for them.
That’s the impression we had from the last move. We’d put food and water in, but there isn’t a
lot of room in the box. It was gotten
when they were younger. Fortunately,
cats don’t grow too much.
Shoot, shoot … need to get going. Dr. M. time!!!!
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