Twine

According to me, I have just added over three years to my life. Over ten years ago I bought a cone of linen kitchen twine (the type to tie roasts and chickens). I said to my husband that when it’s gone, I can die. It was a $10 cone and I’ve already had it for ten years, so it’s paid for itself. I keep a plastic bag over it to keep it from collecting dust.

So, it’s been in storage for over three years and I haven’t been using it so there’s three more years for me! I would probably be in my 90’s anyway.

Today they’re supposed to put in shades, but it’s cloudy so I can write, normally I can’t do so until after noon. They’re gonna kick themselves when they realize they could have done this a month ago when this place was empty, now there are boxes everywhere and everything will have to be moved.

We still don’t have enough space to designate store, keep, donate or shred. I’m thinking of hiring movers on Saturday to deal with storage. As long as we can load my car, I can deal with donate and shred as I made all those calls yesterday.

The ankle is doing better after the fall I took when a cart hit my heel and tumbled me in the garage. Still awaiting visible bruises on legs, hips and arms.

The irony is that we got ALL our stuff, from everywhere, in here, and now all I want to do is move as much of it OUT as I can! I’m limited by physical constraints and Jim (husband) is limited by work, and I can’t call movers until everything is organized and I can’t organize until we at least get rid of the obvious (bringing flattened boxes to storage next door so that their other tenants can take them). I brought the packing peanuts there yesterday, 70 cubic feet, I looked like Santa Claus! And I set up the new shower curtain in the guest bath.

Now I’ll go downstairs and find out when the blinds people will be here, because I have to move boxes and keep the dog occupied. Then I’ll go to the store and find out what to cook with no knives and no pantry ingredients. They’re all in boxes and can’t be unpacked until we find a storage solution.

Ain’t moving grand? Dee