MOVED AND NEARLY DEAD

Well done and done.  What a huge day yesterday was.

I am currently sitting in my new tan purple room.  There are no words to express how much I love it.  The room is tiny, and I mean tiny!  I think its 8X9 feet at most.  I can barely squeeze my purple dresser, Bill’s cabinet the tv sits on and my chair, into it.  But I did and I totally love it.  It just felt right climbing into my chair with my special pillows and big old duvet, my fan and my laptop to read my book (no wifi til later today).  And I slept like a baby...safe and happy.

There is no way yesterday could have happened without all the people that stepped up and helped.  It was actually very humbling.  I am not really the type to ask or accept help easily.  Not sure why, just am. So when everybody came forward yesterday in a swarm I almost cried.  And they stepped up and did those shitty jobs no one likes.

For example:  The new place was dirty, really dirty.  When I arrived, Kathy and April were basically on their hands and knees scrubbing out every cupboard and drawer in the place.  I would never had done that.  Then while Kathy continued on, April started to unload boxes into the right spots, not an easy task.  The kitchen is very small with little counter space.  So of course it is continually covered with several layers of stuff with no where to go.  I had to leave and when I came back, Kathy was washing the floors.  I think she was on her third bucket of water and what she was dumping out was black!

At one point, up at the house, I came across April, sitting beside the huge fish cooler we planned to use to transport the frozen food.  That thing was beyond black and dirty.  And she was just quietly scrubbing it clean.  Such a filthy job.  She also hauled all the drums up from the basement to the garage, and then when they arrived here she and Myles hauled them all down the crooked narrow stairs to the basement and out to the shed and stored them there.  I could never ever have done that.

The day before the move Jocelyn and Kerry arrived with both a van and Jo’s truck.  Every kitchen box was loaded into the van, and all the delicate stuff into Jo’s truck.  April loaded all the tiffany lamps into Myle’s truck (this is after making runs to the dump with all the garbage).  Then both Kerry and Kathy started opening the kitchen boxes and we started to fill the cupboards in earnest.  We ended up having to put a lot of boxes out on the deck for future unloading.  I have waaaaay too much stuff.

In the night before move day, actually that was just yesterday early morning, I couldn’t sleep.  Partly because I was so worried about Monte, who was going through a terrible spell, and partly thinking about all the things that had to be done before 8 am when the movers would arrive.

So I finally sat up and decided to make a list.  I like making those lists, they help you organize and it gets it out of your head.

And that list was frighteningly long...I had no idea so much had to be dealt with!  April was up already when I got up at six and hard at it.  By the time the truck came I was already exhausted!  I sure don’t have the stamina I used to have.    And when they were done, it became evident that the house was filthy!  Alice was arriving at noon but it was an overwhelming huge job.  And while I was directing the final unloading, Kathy slid up to the house, rolled up her sleeves and dug in.  She is so amazing!  And later Alice told me that she couldn’t have done it without her help.  Meanwhile everyone else is running around, helping put things where they belonged, running to bring food back (Wendy’s chicken and blue cheese salad...to die for) etc....  I could cry.

The last job I had last night was unloading the frozen food into the freezer downstairs and the fridge freezer upstairs.  I was worried that the stuff would have started to melt.  But it was all frozen solid still!

Anyway, its now seven in the morning here in my comfy cozy tan purple room, Graeme arrived by bus last nite really late, Peter picked him up, I haven’t seen him yet.  He is sleeping downstairs on the big king mattresses I had the guys put down there.  Peter, bless him, made the bed up.  Graeme has offered to move boxes etc for me today.  I see there are quite a few things that have to be placed in different spots to where they are now.  Most of all that is too heavy for me to lift and Graeme is probably the most organized, clever worker I know.  I have seen him in action before!  I can’t wait to get the living room organized.  I think its going to look really good.  Small.  Its a good thing I bought loveseats and not couches!  I am putting some pics here of the amazing gift basket Amy put together for me.  TTYL   PS:  I will post this later when I have wifi.  I typed it up in Bean, my word processor so it might look different