Fri. June 11, 2021: Overwhelmed By Boxes

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Friday, June 11, 2021

Waxing Moon

Pluto Retrograde

Saturn Retrograde

Mercury Retrograde

Sunny and pleasant

Busy day yesterday. Got a load over to storage, picked up the boxes from Home Depot, got a huge load of stuff to the dump (including 4 crates of glass to recycling), took 9 crates of books to the library. Got out the coverage due. Worked in the storage room, pulled/packed/purged. Filled another carload and took it over to storage.

At the dump, I was heaving the big bags of garbage into the dumpster when a guy drove up on the other side, tossed his bags in, then leaned on the edge of the dumpster and started mansplaining to me about how if I couldn’t lift the bags, I shouldn’t fill them so much. I ignored him.

But one of the workers strode over and said, “If she can’t, I do.” He took the bag from me and threw it in, then looked at the guy and said, “As you should have.”

The guy sputtered, got into his truck, and drove away.

When I thanked the employee, he said, “It’s not just because you bake us cookies; you always treat us as human beings.”

A nice moment in a stressful day.

Picked up some groceries. The prepared food I’d bought for us the previous day was subpar, so, like it or not, we’re better doing our own.

Packed boxes in the kitchen. A bunch of them will have to go into storage temporarily, and we’ll have to drive back down in August, September, and October to get a bunch of stuff. It just won’t fit on the truck.

Interrupted by the agencies that supposedly “help” seniors do this; instead of helping, it’s about dragging it out, endless paperwork, and making the applicant feel as humiliated as possible.

At least it wasn’t that hot.

But what still needs to be done is overwhelming, especially since I’m having trouble booking anyone to come and help.

Chip away at the iceberg, right? That’s all I can do.

I finished the book for review – 460 excruciating pages. The review goes out today, along with the invoice, and then I take a two week break during the move.

I have three scripts to read today, and one coverage for something I read on Wednesday that has to go out.

Big push this weekend, to get as much done as possible. We’re trying to stage what we’re driving up, the priority boxes for the truck, and the rest that has to go into storage. There’s no damn room.

And I don’t know how I’m going to get the big things to the dump. There’s plenty I want to purge; it’s ridiculous how much they charge for it.

Keep at it.

Hold a good thought.