Packing Pain

I’m having trouble packing.  The mind is willing, but every time I start, my back starts hurting.  It’s a sharp pain and it feels like my back is breaking.

So far, all I’ve got done is the giant bookshelf in the living room, all my CDs and DVDs, and my cookbooks in the kitchen.  I’ve been bringing all of my knick knacks into the living room and putting them all on the entertainment center so they can all be packed at once.  There’s a couple.  I decided to purge a couple of cookbooks and I put the one cookbook that has my Thanksgiving recipes in the basket with the books I’m reading.  My living room looks like a disaster area and I really need to do some dishes and wash some clothes today.  Plus, I really want to have the office packed today, but the painkiller doesn’t seem to be kicking in.

I’d be willing to pay someone to pack for me but I don’t have the money to do so and I’m to old to get away with paying with brownies and gumbo.

Tags: packing to move

I Can’t Put It Off Any Longer

The flippers have agreed to fix the window with the broken seal before closing. It was added to the list of items that have to be completed that includes fixing the fire code issue in the basement, installing the smoke detectors, checking the exhaust fan for the oven/stove, and fixing the light over the back of the garage among a few other minor things like adding a garbage disposal.

So…I’ve put it off as long as I can. The packing boxes that I ordered online and thought would be delivered by today won’t be here until Tuesday, but I need to get started packing. I only have 3 weekends, maybe 4 if the closing gets put off until after Thanksgiving. My goal for this weekend is to pack up my CDs, DVDs, knick knacks, file cabinet, desk, and games. I need boxes for this. I tried asking for some on Freecycle and got nary a reply. I grabbed only one paper box from work. So Office Depot or Office Max it is this afternoon.

I think I’ll just start piling the boxes up in a corner in the office upstairs and go from there.

I just am leary. I have this bad feeling that I’ll get all packed and everything will fall through. I have that kind of luck.

Tags: packing, moving, Freecycle, Office Depot, Office Max, luck

Discombobulated Thoughts - 06/19/06

• Even though I asked for my mail to be temporarily stopped beginning June 23rd, it was stopped June 16th. This wouldn’t really have been too annoying if all of my Netflix had arrived for the weekend before then.  I really wanted to watch Memoirs of a Geisha too.
• I had finally found a set of headphones I really liked and let the personal organizer haul off every other pair I owned. The puppy has eaten the plastic cushion piece of the left ear piece. I really need to figure out a better place to put my purse so he can’t get into it anymore.
• I saw this book in the local book store and could not believe it.
  

  The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.

  Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

  1. Organize before they rise!
  2. They feel no fear, why should you?
  3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
  4. Blades don’t need reloading.
  5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
  6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
  7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
  8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
  9. No place is safe, only safer.
  10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

  Don’t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset—life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.

  Now I’m just trying to figure out which of my oddball friends to give it too as a gift.

• I am trying to decide if it’s better to roll your clothes to pack them in the tiny suitcase or to fold them flat.  Which is the most space saving method?
• I was feeling a little uneasy about the girl who was supposed to check on my cats while I was gone even though she worked at my vet’s office.  She just seemed not responsible to me.  When I called today to tell her I was going to find someone else, I learned that she had been let go, which explains why she hadn’t been responsible enough to call me and come to my house to do a walk through for the cat-sitting.

  I hired the woman who answered the phone.

Tags: discombobulated, zombies, books, packing methods, cat-sitting