Done(ish)

[beowabbit]

The old house is cleared out and cleaned. Our fourth dumpster will be picked up tomorrow, full. docorion’s and my stuff (and that of sionnagh, who had a lot of stuff stored in Malden) is all physically at the Quincy house, if not remotely unpacked. We have our fire certificate (which required a 1½-week delay and a large amount of electrical work), and directions to the closing tomorrow morning. I am fed, courtesy of the yummy late-night Chinese takeout place nearby. I’m about to have a beer, take a hot shower, and crawl into bed.

I am very grateful to darxus and lilbjorn, who answered cathijosephine’s post asking for help tonight. darxus and cathijosephine spent part of their scheduled date filling a 20-yard dumpster, and lilbjorn helped me clean the kitchen and took the last carload of stuff to Quincy with me.

I’m also very grateful to pheromone for a delicious and relaxing Thanksgiving-dinner break on Thursday. I needed it.

I don’t think this is quite the most gruelling experience I’ve gone through, but it’s certainly in the top ten and almost certainly in the top five. But I am truly blessed to have the friends, the family (chosen and born), and the tribe I do. My life is good. (And it’s better now that the Malden house is cleared out, and I can start paying attention to my new home.)

Comments

[beowabbit]

Thanks! By the way, I’ve still got that crate from your parents’ van. How shall I get it to you? Oh, and thanks so much for the loan of it!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, so that's why you were confused when you heard back from me days later! (LJ ate the comment notification, actually in the form of having some of it its mailservers blacklisted in spamcop, it would appear.) Anyhow, thanks for dropping it back off. I would expect it has resumed its warding-off of any circumstances that would require it function as soon as you put it touched the rusting floor of the van. :-)