Dead Weight

10-15-13

I freaking rule!

I packed up most of my baking cupboard (leaving things like measuring cups since I use those a lot) and took it over to Steve. I was having so much fun getting rid of crap I haven’t used in ages and being able to put stuff in my brand new kitchen. It was awesome! I think I can pack up another cupboard for today. I’m thinking Tupperware.

While at Steve, I managed to paint all but 2 of the trim boards the first coat of paint. I would have done the other two, but there was no room on my painting table. Lame. That’s ok. I need to paint the copper coat today and maybe get the other two set up somewhere else for their coats. I wasn’t going to do a second coat of copper on the ones I did over the weekend, but Ken thinks we still need it.

I went back to Eydie and there I did a bunch of laundry and fed Hal. I also embarked on operation dog wash. I hate bathing Lycos only because she has a hard enough time with gravity now and here I am putting her in a situation she hates, with a slippery floor, and to top it off I make her take the bath with Luna. We managed, though, and I am glad I did it. She was coated in gross. Now both my pups are all shiny and clean, which was good, too, since they needed the next flea treatment.

The boys came and went having spent the day with Ken due to the Columbus Day holiday. They stopped in after Ken’s class to change into soccer gear and then went back out to practice. I cooked dinner and then took a bit to sit and relax. I discovered that in fact I did love a show I knew I would. The B in Apt 23 was one that looked like my cup of tea was something I never got to record and it has since been canceled. Thankfully shows don’t die; they just go to Netflix, where I was able to catch a couple of episodes of this fantastic programing. Yay!

Ken’s folks are not coming after all, citing an installation appointment that they had forgotten about. I don’t know if the boys will be disappointed or not since this does mean no grandparents at Grandfriends’ Day, but hopefully there will be lots of kids in the same boat. Plus, we will be able to go to the book fair after school, which always pleases them.

We got an email at work yesterday that indicated details would follow. When I read further down, it was a forwarded message that was between someone in our Accounting Department inquiring to our travel coordinator as to the dates in which my boss would be out of the country since no one in AR was aware of his trip. Yeah, my boss is in Chile and no one knew about it. Neat.

Someone is coming to pick up our old bed today and someone else may get the kids’ old bed. Yay! I didn’t get any money but at this point, I so don’t care. I need to go out and take some pics of the 3 strollers I have and post those. I will try for money, but honestly, I don’t care. I am in the market of getting rid of shit these days. I have to get rid of all of this dead weight. There is so much junk in my life that I have no place for. Sure, Steve is bigger than Eydie, but Steve also represents a clean slate. I can really evaluate each item and decide if it is worth holding on to. If I am just going to box it up, it had better be really important. I really mean it when I say Steve is the place I hope to be when I die. So if Steve doesn’t have a place for something, I need to get rid of it.

I may need a bigger trash can.