Saturday, October 23, 2004

It was another day of schlepping my stuff over to ECD’s house. I had a large pile of boxes ready to be moved already, so I spent the morning purging more things to be tossed out. I have pack rat tendancies, but I’ve moved so often that I’ve never been able to really accumulate a lot of junk. And I can be ruthless to get rid of stuff when it’s necessary. I have a feeling a large yard sale is in our future.

I spent a long time sorting through the storage bin of gift wrap, gift bags, and ribbon. I lucked into a large quantity of free ribbon from the Hallmark that I worked at and I also took advantage of my employee discount to stock up on gift supplies. But in the last couple of years the box I store it all in was trashed. I emptied it out and I was reminded that I have some lovely fabric ribbon that I could have been using but it was hidden underneath other stuff. And I have a lot of white tissue paper for some reason, not a bad thing, just odd because I don’t remember buying that much. I also pulled out the under-the-bed container that holds my roll wrapping paper to be taken over to the house. At this point, I won’t need it until Christmas anyway.

ECD came over at about lunch time - so we ate some Chinese food before we started hauling my stuff to her SUV. She also helped me pack my stoneware dishes in a great box my mother had given to me, although it’s now heavy enough that we weren’t comfortable carrying it down the stairs. That will wait for when the men come to do the heavy lifting.

We took Annie over again. This time she and Sassy didn’t start out fighting, which was encouraging. That’s not to say there weren’t some incidents, but they did much better.  I think once we’re in the house, Annie will feel more comfortable knowing what’s her turf in the house and she’ll relax. She was tuckered when we got home though. I had to carry her up the stairs because she just couldn’t do it tonight - poor thing. She’s snoring on the bed behind me right now.

Truth is I’m a little weary and achy, too. *Game Break: David Ortiz just slammed a 3-run homer. Oooh, they scored a 4th run. Happy!*

OK, I’m done rambling - on to some blog reading and Red Sox watching…