Packing on Monday

Welcome to Monday again!

It's my "Sunday".. so I get to putter around the house pretty much by myself on Mondays.

Part of the morning I spend farting around on FB... playing Zuma, catching up with my friends and doing a little 'fb house cleaning".  Today I got up and did a little of that, but it's Spring Break, so TKU came down with pancakes for the two of us, and we bantered about not much, she helped me pack some dishes, and we played with the Dr. Ho machine.. LOL .. (she won't try it herself yet.. LOL)

For now, she's gone out with her mom, and I'm out of life on Zuma.. so I thought I'd come and update here.

Packing is ... well.. I guess I'd say half done.  There are still a number of small things that have to get packed, but a lot of big things you can't do anything with and will get moved "as is".. but its coming along.  I'm REALLY glad I started packing March 1.  The bonus is that there are still other things to pack, but most of the nagging stuff is out of the way, and it FEELS like I've made progress.

Last weekend we realized that the UFC was on this weekend... and it was our turn to host.  There are 4 'families' of us that host each time its on and we take turns.  2 are in our house, 2 are in another house down the street from where we are now... same set up - upstairs suite / downstairs suite.   We ended up with 12 people in our little living room this past Saturday night, and it worked out pretty well!

So all the boxes that I've been packing up until March 18 got moved into the storage space under the stairs, and emptied out pretty much every box we've packed so far... and looking around, it felt like NOTHING had been done yet.  Its interesting how perception works.  No boxes all stacked up everywhere basically told my brain that nothing had been packed yet... and I felt a little bit of a panic!  So yesterday I packed a couple more boxes, today I've done a few more too... and I'll probably get a good chunk of all the little things done - and THAT will be great.

I was lucky enough to have a friend who just moved who was happy to donate her boxes to our cause.  And when we're all done, I'll store a fair amount of the boxes for next time, and donate to some to another friend who will be moving too.  I know that new place will have enough storage that I can keep a lot of boxes after we're done.  Somehow I feel better knowing I have enough to start again when it comes time.  But I am looking forward to actually going through each and every box and bin that's packed right now and getting rid of stuff, or putting it out to use.  Very little is going to be "stored".  It's no wonder the off site storage places make so much money... everyone's got 'stuff'.. and they plan to keep it!  I will have a couple boxes that are memory/keepsake things, but it won't nearly be enough that if we didn't have as much storage as we're moving to - that I'd have to get an off-site storage locker.  That would make me crazy!

We find out on the 23rd what exactly is going on with the move.  The owners are moving back east and the husband is there now finalizing details etc.  I assume on a job and / or their new home.  I'd like to hear on the 23rd that they're leaving that week and we are welcome to move in a bit early.  Gotta love not having to move everything in one day with a mad rush to get out of one place and get it cleaned on time.  And there will be a fair amount of cleaning to do here before I'd tell the landlord that we're out.  Hopefully we have a couple days to just clean empty space.  But we'll deal with whatever we get.

Anyway... I guess that's it.  I should get up and pack some more so I have a little less to trip over...  :)