Not Much To Write Home About

I always feel bad if I don't update this site, but to be honest, there is nothing to regale you with. I'm currently consumed with working on "the move." This is the biggest move I've done thus far in my life, and boy, when you move, you realize how much junk you've collected! It's mind-boggling that I arrived here in December 2005 with two carloads of boxes. Yesterday I reserved a small truck to move my furniture and mes affaires (my stuff) next Saturday to the storage facility across town.

In order to facilitate the big move, I spend my days collecting boxes in grocery stores, pinching extra copies of the local newspaper (for wrapping dishes), eating the food still in my freezer before I have to defrost it for good, and advertising the few pieces of furniture I'm not going to store. In fact, I'm starting to get worried about what I'll do with them if they don't sell!

I've still got more packing to do, and plastering up all the holes in the wall from my pictures. Should be another fun and exciting day tomorrow!

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Anonymous said…
I once read that regular white toothpaste can be used to fill small nail holes and surface cracks. Can't say I ever tried it but someone has.
7:56 PM
momabeam said…
I cant tell you how impressed I am by all that you do on your own- just going to another country and learning a language and then praching is way above and beyond anythng I can imagine. But all this life stuff- moving, selling, packing, storing, finding doctors, replacing a stolen credit card, -just the decisions- make me want to faint- I must be really really wimpy, or you must be superwoman- either way, I hope you can give lessons when you get home. And give yourself a huge pat on the back- you truly deserve it.
9:48 PM
Ariel Rainey said…
first of all, coming from you, Momabeam, that is one of the best compliments I've ever had. We all know you ARE superwoman!

Mom said that years ago, in much darker moments, she asked you how you kept going, and you said, "you don't have a choice."

I think that's how I feel about most of this stuff. I don't have a choice. Somebody's got to pack/move/make these phone calls/fight with the cell phone company. I resent it at times. I cry and pitch fits in the privacy of my own home, and then when I'm done, I get up and keep going.

That's the secret of superwomen everywhere!
7:59 AM
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