Scottish Highlands

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Thursday, December 08, 2011

Making It Up As I Go Along #488


Been just too busy this week to write anything of substance.  Even forgot about the blog yesterday… when I was supposed to post.  So much running around and organizing and packing and unpacking going on.  So I’ll write more when things settle some next week.  And I’ll share a little bit to go with the weekly portion now.

Living In Boxes
I’m living in boxes
Pushing an empty off my bed
Leaving it on the floor
A small box propped against bigger ones
A cardboard mountain range
At the foot of my bed.

When I wake a few return
Clearing floor space by transference
Lazy cardboard snoozing
As an old dog taking my place
When I’m off to work

In the living room are boxes
Stacked and rimming the room
Ready to go, nearest the door
Empties furthest away
A conveyer belt of moving

I drag them to the car
I drive them over the roads
And drag them from the car once there
In newness and cleanliness
Where I’ll be living quiet soon
I’m surrounded by boxes

In the corner of each empty room they sit
An Infestation
I have been inflicted
This past week
By boxes

WEDNESDAY…
--- Tired.  Wake at 2:50 in the morning and get about another 15 minutes before I must get up at 4:30.
--- Crash at work by about 3:30 and have to also deal with calls regarding a mover and the bank.
--- Straight to the bank after work to work out mortgage final details for the new place.
--- Exhausted once home around 7:30.

THURSDAY…
--- More dayshift.  At least I had more sleep than yesterday.
--- Still getting stuff organized for the new house.  Getting stuff called and worked out on computer for address change and such.

FRIDAY…
--- Physio followed by my nap and then chaos.  Got to rush to the bank, talk to the insurance company and try making a few calls to organize things.  Insurance and the bank are straight by the end of the work day, but it’s hectic.
--- Work for me tonight.  Mostly shoe impressions for me to work on while the other guys do the rest of the work.

SATURDAY…
--- Not good for sleep as I’m awake early with roofers across the parking lot.  They’re still there come nap time.  Still, make it through work ok.

SUNDAY…
--- Up around 10:30.  A bit too early after night shift.  Ultimate Fighter on PVR.
--- Some TV and a nice walk around the pond.

MONDAY…
--- Some phone calls to line up my move… a trip to the lawyer’s office to sign a bunch of stuff… physio… groceries… and some TV.  Pretty busy day.

TUESDAY…
--- Packing in the morning.  A walk of the pond while the buyer of my place has a final walk through.  Get the keys to the new place at the lawyer’s office.
--- Over to the townhouse for a few hours.  Put some stuff away and explore.  Sarah comes for a tour after work and then it’s home for a bite and some more packing.

WEDNESDAY…
--- Up early and over to the new place waiting for the Sears delivery truck.  They come and things go well.  The fridge was a tight squeeze but made it in just right.  And a little nick out of a corner of a wall by the movers with the stove.  But it’s good.
--- Phil comes to help with some of the moving from the old place to the new and I walk out by the new pond.  Water filling in there and a muskrat is swimming around.
--- Use the soaker tub for the first time this afternoon.  Achy muscles from moving so much stuff enjoyed the luxury.  Ahh.
--- A little more packing in the evening and some down time in front of the TV.

THURSDAY…
--- Day off work. Packing some more… meet ADT at the house to discuss a system… walk the new lake area (I think the water is rising pretty quickly, may be higher than it was yesterday.  This time I walked as far as the path would take me (it’s not a circle or connected circuit).  Took about 20 to 25 minutes to go from my place to the end of the trail.  So a 35 to 45 minute walk to go and come back.
--- Physio and some trips to the Minto Care Centre to clear some questions and pass in a form.
--- Look up on the internet to see the road plans for the area.  Looks like there will be a road eventually crossing where the point of the pond system is.  It’s sort of “U” shaped with me at one end of the “U” a point at the rounded part and another connected storm water pond at the other end of the “U”.  Well it looks like, in the next 5 years or so, a road will cut through the woods at the point, with a bridge crossing the spit of water there.  Kind of too bad but, as long as there’s some forest buffer and not cars driving along the shore of the pond, it will remain nice.
--- Realize today that I should have posted on the blog yesterday.  Just been way too busy with the houses and moving and calling here and there and e-mail there and here.  

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