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[ebonlock]

I was a goddamn machine this weekend and I'm still quite decidedly pleased with myself today. Friday I got my remaining files packed up at work and I'm now pretty much officially ready to move. Go me! Then I left early to zoom up to Oakland to help jakejr with some last minute errands that needed doing. We packed up my car with donations and dropped off her cable box, then I got to visit my first industrial shredding company. It was unbelievably cool. If ever I needed to fall back on a blue collar job in the future it would be that one. It's just so...cathartic.

Then we drove to Fremont to pick up her truck, which was actually pretty nice, and parted company until the next morning. Bright and early moonlightnrain, cyranocyrano and I headed up to help with the actual move. I have to just say that the sheer amount of stuff that jakejr owns is downright mind boggling. And this is after several trunkfull's of stuff went with me over successive weekends to Goodwill. I just kept staring at the 17' truck then at all the stuff and thinking, "There's just no way." But her dad is apparently also part Time Lord as he seems to have made the truck bigger on the inside than out.

We ended up creating a sort of bucket line to get everything out front as a staging area so that the guys could then use the handtrucks to move it all downstairs. Once we'd gotten the boxes out we could move the appliances and furniture. moonlightnrain and I then turned our attention to the kitchen, which hadn't been packed yet, and it took hours to do, but we managed to finish off all the remaining boxes and packing materials with pretty much nothing to spare. Damn we were good.

After that she cleaned up the kitchen while I set to work with my steam cleaner on the carpets. I can't say they looked great after I'd finished, but I did manage to get up all the stains so they looked ok. After six hours of work I was happy to settle for ok. I was officially the last person out after dumping the steam cleaner and tidying up the bathroom sink and that was that. There were many hugs and tears and promises to get in touch once she'd gotten settled in the new place. I certainly didn't envy her the drive up north after all that moving stuff. I was just delighted to get home before 6 and to finally climb into the shower. Ah blessed watery relief! Getting clean finally kick started my appetite (I'd had a protein bar since breakfast) and I had a nice dinner before falling over on the loveseat. By 9 I crawled into bed and fell fast asleep.

Up bright and early on Sunday and off to run about a million errands. I picked up all the Goodwill and Green Citizen stuff to cart off from work and made those runs, stopped at Elephant Pharmacy then Long's to pick up some stuff. Treated myself to a Jamba and a stop at Summerwinds for some soil, a new pot and the cutest little oregano plant you've ever seen. Ran to the bank to deposit a birthday check from silkblade, thank you dear! Then home again to do laundry, put away all the stuff I'd bought, let the cats outside and tidy up. Fell over on the loveseat again for about an hour then I was up and ready to run around again. Got the Always mix finalized, one copy sent out to odogoddess and another popped in the box with my sister's birthday gifts which is all ready to ship out.

As of this weekend one of my Xmas quilts is finished and another started so I may just get them all done before they need to be shipped out in November. Go me! But I have to be very good about setting aside at least one day per weekend to do nothing but sew from now on. So if I beg off on plans that's why.

Ah and one more thing. I still have the trunkfull of jakejr's video tapes she was getting rid of because I wanted to offer them up to local friends who might be interested before I donate them. Lots of good stuff including movies and tv series. I saw the Indiana Jones collection, both SW collections, what appeared to be most of season one Voyager and lots of B5 as well. If you're interested contact me before Saturday and we can set up a time for you to come by and take a look.

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[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

You know, if she had Farscape Season 1 on VHS that would be worth hooking up my VCR for....

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Um, I don't recall seeing that one, but by all means please stop by and take a look for yourself.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Sure thing. What day works for you?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely be home this evening.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Um, okay. 7ish? It'll do me good to go out for a walk after dinner.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Works for me, C- and I will probably be watching B7 at that point (if he's coming over tonight), but I can easily run out to the car with you so you can decide which of the vids (if any) you'd like.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd hate to interrupt. Is there a better time?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Won't be an interruption, I've seen all the eps dozens of times.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Still, it would be interrupting your time with C--, which strikes me as rude. Can we pick another time?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Sure...uh, why don't you tell me what evenings are best for you and I'll try to make sure I'm home by the time you're ready to come over.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

I have not one plan at all this week, other than to try to get rid of the Saturn and to steam clean my carpets, both of which are flexible. I don't think this will take long, but I just thought... since my schedule is so open it seems selfish to impose upon your one-on-one time with C--.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Then why don't you stop by after 7 tomorrow evening?

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

I'd love to, thanks!

[silkblade.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

I'm all sleep addled and I was reading this post about helping jakejr move and I see my name and I'm like, but ... I wasn't there? what?

Heh.

[jakejr.livejournal.com]

Both SW collections? Darn. I only meant to ditch the newer one. Ah, well. I am on mom's computer, doing a very fast skim of my flist (mostly catching my own name :) ). I hope your renewed sinus thing wasn't from me and that it gets better soon. Post from me shortly.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Yay! There's my girl. Can't wait to hear all about the trip. And I've still got the vids out in my trunk if you want me to go grab anything out of 'em. I wanted to give folks around here a chance to look through them before donating them.

[jakejr.livejournal.com]

If the older Star Wars set is in fact there, that I'd like to keep. Otherwise, I don't know of anything. And in response to above, I only have Farscape on DVD and that I'm keeping. :)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I'll check on that and if it's out there I'll send it to you.

[jakejr.livejournal.com]

No rush on the sending, since I'm leaving town Tuesday. :)