I came home exhausted from doing taxes last night. We usually have four or five workers and last night we only had two with one more joining us late. We do eight returns each session. One was a no show last night so we did seven. I stayed very busy all night. I learned a few new things again which I always appreciate. I was pleased that the guy in charge was stumped for a bit with the situation but he figured it out. He is good about teaching me how to do whatever I didn’t know how to do so next time I can do it.
I took seven more boxes to the Salvation Army when I went to town late morning. That makes a total of 15 boxes I have dropped off there so far. Many more to come.
Jason forgot something he needed so I ran that in to him. I then went to McDonald’s to get another load of fry boxes as my supply was getting low. I got another big stack so should be good to go for the weekend. I’ll need more boxes on another day when I start to pack for the move. I am using all the boxes so far to put stuff in that I want to get rid of. Fry boxes are the perfect size for me to handle. They are nice sturdy boxes and I can lift them rather easily when they are full. Using all the same size boxes makes it easy to stack them. The best part is they are free.
Phil came and fixed the faucet in the garage. I had turned it on yesterday for the first time since the great freeze in January. The faucet worked but I couldn’t get it to turn completely off and it dripped constantly. He ended up having to replace the faucet. He tried repairing it but that didn’t work. Grateful he was able to come today and get that taken care of. I so appreciate him. Wonder if that will be the last unexpected repair I will have to do to this house? Wouldn’t bet on it. Things keep popping up around here that need fixed.
I didn’t get much sleep last night. I was overly tired and could not fall asleep. For some reason my left hip hurt and I had trouble getting comfortable. Finally got some sleep around 5:00 this morning. Got a text before 8:00 that woke me up and I couldn’t go back to sleep. My hip is still sore but not as bad as last night.
I have emptied six totes from the furnace room so far. Still have about six or seven more to go through. Progress is being made but it feels slow. Good thing I still have two months before we more. Hoping I can get the furnace room done this weekend and then I will move on to the rest of the rooms in the basement and get those taken care of. Still have a couple of rooms to do upstairs too. I forget how big this house is until I have to go into every room and clean it out. Some rooms won’t take near as long so I should be in good shape.
Haven’t made it down to the barn yet to fill a couple more trash bags for next week’s trash pick up. I will get to it before next Tuesday. May need to hire someone to come haul some things off for me that are too big and awkward to take to the curb. I can always leave things too although that doesn’t feel fair and I don’t want to leave unusable things for the buyer to have to deal with.
Looking like we may get to move the first week of May. I will know definitely by Monday. I would very much like that to happen. I don’t want to drag this out any longer than necessary. I will give myself a couple of days to get moved once the rental house is vacant so the process will be less stressful. If all goes well, we should be able to close May 3. Yikes! Two months to go. I can do this!
Tomorrow I need to go to town to pick Ellexia up after school. When I go to town I need to open a new bank account somewhere for a partnership thing I am doing with Jason. Hope we can get that taken care of tomorrow. We shall see if Jason can get free when I am in town. I’ll probably have a couple more boxes to take to the Salvation Army while I am in town tomorrow. If I take a few every time I go to town, they don’t pile up and overwhelm me so much.
No plans for the weekend. The EFIS crew is to be here both Saturday and Sunday to begin that project. Sure hope they show up as promised. I will feel very relieved once they get here and get started. The weather is to be good this weekend for them to work.
The water booster pump may get delivered and installed tomorrow. That has been on my pending list for several months. It will be good to get that crossed off the list and taken care of. Things seem to be falling into place and getting done.
Hoping next week I can resume exercise. I will find out tomorrow. I may have to wait one more week as I still get a cough if I move around too much. It is much better and decreasing each day but still hanging around. The program’s protocol calls for me to be symptom free for seven days before resuming. Not sure what they consider to be a symptom so not sure what they will advise me tomorrow. If I don’t have exercise next week I will only have taxes on my calendar for next week so will have lots of time to declutter.
Feels so good to be moving stuff out of this house. The house feels lighter to me and I like that feeling. I sure thought I had done a good job of decluttering before but am realizing I still had a long ways to go to get to where I want to be. The disadvantage of having a big house is you have the room to keep stuff you don’t need.
Grateful the garage water faucet got fixed today, grateful seven more boxes full of stuff are gone, and grateful my box supply got refilled.