May 6, 2004
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Zen and the Art of Packing My House
Ooooooohm
Ooooooohm (fidget)
"Close your eyes kids, this is cool."
Ooooooohm (fidget, fidget)
"Come on, breathe in, breathe out - let yourself relax"
Oooooooohm ("I think she's up to something.)
"Everyone got your eyes closed?"
Oooooooohm ("I know she's up to something.)
Crash (sound of boxes being tossed OUT the door)
Oooooooohm ("What was THAT?")
"Nothing kids, keep your eyes closed."
My kids didn't seem to notice that 90% of the stuff in their room disappeared over the weekend. They noticed that I found all the pieces to their marble game - it's a cool toy, you connect all these little tubes to make like a roller coaster thing for a marble to roll around and down. The marble makes things spin, you line up little ski jump thingees to have the marble jump from on track to another. They hadn't played with it in at least a year because they could find enough of the bits.
Today I'm packing at random. My trunk is full of stuff to go to Goodwill. My laundry room is full of trash bags that hold actual trash. So far, I've only filled four boxes. But I've cleared out another entire closet. It's good. It's all good.
On Monday the temperature here was mid 40s. Today its mid 80s. The fan on my airconditioner sounds like a motorcycle with a bad muffler. Brrrrump Brrrrump Brrrrump I'm not willing to pay to have it fixed when I'll only be here for another three weeks, and I don't own the house anymore anyway. Still I'm wishing there were shade trees a little closer ...
We've changed the plan a half dozen times, but now, Tim is coming out on Friday to pick up the kids instead of me taking them to him. While he's here, he's offering to help me load the heavier boxes, and I'm borrowing the van so I can move as much as possible into storage on Saturday while the kids are with him in Louisville. If a great deal of stuff winds up at the landfill, well ...
Oooooooooohm.
Comments (12)
HA!
Kudos.
sail on... sail on!!!
ooooooohmmmmwahahaaaaa!
rofl. oooohm [sound of QM floating on in a sea of zen-ish packing]
Only three more weeks?
Moving is sooooo unpleasant. Packing is the worst part.
Wishing you lots of lovely distractions!!!
I'm missing you already, btw. *sniff*
"Come students, let us rejoin the mind with the body.
oooooohhhhhhhhhhmmmmmm
Very good class..."
Take care!
best of luck!
i wanna move too lol...well anyway hope it all goes well with the move....take care and have a geat day...
OY...
that brings memories...
the last two moves included (among a lot of other trips in moving/storage etc.) 13 trips to the landfill (transfer station) in 1995's move, and 9 trips in 2001's move. I think I have (still) too much stuff.
Makes me think of when I moved from Calif. to Oregon after my divorce. Cleaning out, packing sorting, donating, selling - so much stuff is right!
Now I would hate to move again, and I do not even have children in the home to blame
It really is amazing just how much we can accumulate over the years when we stay in one spot, and we donate to a charity regularly all year long. Never seems to make a dent!
Sounds like you are doing a great job anyway, and those three weeks will be over soon, so good luck in all the upcoming endeavors you will be involved in, in the next couple of months (((HUGS)))
Happy Mother's Day.
Hey! The look changed again. I like the watermellon theme.
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