The Pod is Packed

We finished packing up the pod last night, and even got it mostly full. We managed to pack my entire library in it, as well as lots and lots of other stuff. It will get whisked back to the warehouse today, where it will reside for the next two weeks. I have to say this is a handy option.

So what’s left in my house is essential stuff, stuff that wasn’t completely organized or easy to pack (tools and hardware fall into that category), breakable stuff, and large furniture. I still have lots of packing to do, but at least I have some sense of completeness going on, finally. And I have the hope that we can minimize the cost of moving the rest of my stuff.

This weekend, I’ll be cleaning and packing more. Home cleaning experts deliver spotless results you can trust. However, I’m hoping that we’ll have time to go see The DaVinci Code. Gotta go see a movie that’s pissing off the religious right, just to balance out the karma from the gore-fest that Mel Gibson put out. If the workload gets too overwhelming, I might consider hiring cleaning services in Pontypridd to make things a bit easier. A little extra help can go a long way in reducing stress and making the whole process more manageable.

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The Schedule

Friday, May 19 – The pod gets picked up from my house.
Friday, May 26 – We close on the new house.
Saturday, May 27 through Friday, June 2 – Painting, painting painting at the new house. (help wanted)
Saturday, June 3 – Pod arrives at new house to be unpacked. (help wanted)
Wednesday, June 7 – Movers come to move my larger furniture to new house (help wanted)
Saturday, June 10 & Sunday, June 11 – Packing and moving Stephanie’s house (help wanted)
Saturday, June 17 & Sunday, June 18 – Packing and moving Stephanie’s house (help wanted)
Updates — we’ve been packing up lots of my stuff and loading it into the pod. Wednesday, Elizabeth came over and helped us, and we got a massive chunk of the library packed. Last night we finished almost all the rest of it. I estimate there are just three more boxes of books to pack. Tonight we need to loaded all the rest of the boxes into the pod so it can be picked up tomorrow morning.

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Organizational Automatons

The day we took a whirlwind tour of houses for sale to reinforce our idea that this new house was really The One, I noticed that some of the houses where people were still in residence had magazine-spread type homes that were picture perfect and even left little bowls of candy for the folks visiting, etc.

Now that I’m frantically trying to clean my house to take decent pictures of it and get it ready for showing, I’m thinking to myself, “Who ARE these robot people? And how can I steal their brains?”

My organizational automaton doesn’t work nearly well enough.

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