I had a productive trip to town this afternoon. I took six more boxes to the Salvation Army. Stopped by the new Mark II store and had a discussion with the lady about the kitchen cabinets. I stopped by my builder’s office afterwards to drop off the kitchen cabinet bid but his office was locked closed.
I went to exercise. I did exercise today with a different trainer and one other participant in the research program. He is on week 26 and I am on week 9 but we did the same video today. For some reason, this week’s lesson seemed to go by quickly and we were done before I knew it.
I picked up Michelle and we took care of a banking issue together. I took her back to work and then went to Walmart and got a storage container for my wrapping paper. Came home after that and took a short nap in my chair.
I don’t think I have to go to town all weekend. We shall see if I get to stay home. I love weekends when I get to stay home all weekend.
Nicole and Geoff are coming back down again tomorrow to pick up my extra freezer. I need to get out to the garage and get that freezer emptied tonight. I threw some things away on trash day this week but still have more things to get rid of. Not sure how much I will have to discard. I will take everything but the meat out and will go from there. I’m sure some of the frozen vegetables that are in the freezer are years old and not edible anyways.
The lady at the cabinet store did a good job today. I have no idea if what I picked out is out of the allowed amount or not. I need to schedule a meeting with my builder and find out. She reorganized the draft plan of the kitchen a bit to maximize cabinet space and to balance it a bit. I’m not good at looking at a flat drawing and imagining what it looks like for real. Glad she is experienced at this and found a few things to adjust.
I need to get out and mow my yard. I may get started on that this evening. It is not windy today and will be a good day to mow. I still don’t have grass in all the places of the yard. We are very dry and the grass doesn’t seem to be filling in well this year yet.
There is lots of smoke in the air again this afternoon due to all the burning that is happening around me. My nearest neighbors haven’t burned yet and am not sure if they are going to. We have had lots less burning than normal this year due to the drought conditions.
My plan this weekend is to finish up packing the basement stuff. I don’t use that stuff and it is something I can get done ahead of time. The mover I am using this time is more particular about everything being in boxes with a lid so need to do some work on a few things and figure out how to make that happen. I can move odd shape things in my car if needed as long as they aren’t too heavy.
I only have a little over two weeks to go before moving day. Next week I will get all the utilities notified and start notifying people I do business with of my new mailing address. I tried to order personal checks with the new address but what they need to verify the new address I don’t have yet. I don’t write many checks anyways so will make do with the old ones until after I can get the documents they require to order new ones.
The guy that is going to appraise the house for the new buyer’s loan is coming Monday morning. It seems to me they are cutting it close to closing to only be allowing a little over two weeks for him to get his report to the bank and final loan approval to happen before close. Not my worry I guess as long as close goes forward on schedule.
I probably should do a bit of house cleaning before the appraiser shows up. I haven’t cleaned for some time now and the house is dirty. I have boxes everywhere but I’m not going to move those. He will have to deal with what is. Not really my worry about how the house appraises as long as we can close May 3 as scheduled.
I should get the key to the house we are moving into Saturday or Sunday. I hope I have it so I can show Nicole and Geoff the house when they are here tomorrow. Kathy hasn’t seen the inside of the house yet either. It will make it very real to me when I get to go in that empty house again.
Thinking I am in a good position for the move right now. Lots of stuff left the house this week and some more is to go this weekend. I don’t think it will take me too long to pack what I am taking and I still have a little over two weeks to get it all packed. I have lots of phone calls to make next week and if I am in the right mood those can get done relatively quickly too.
Anxious to get this big move over with and to get settled into our new house. This move has consumed me these last couple of months and I am ready to move on and get started with the rest of my life.
Grateful more things left the house today, grateful to spend some time with Michelle today, and grateful one more step towards building the new house happened today.