My place is a mess. I need to organize more *putting away stuff, because I will not again (after the camping and thus messinjg up every room in the house) want to do the temporary thingie again. Thus I need either to procure Furniture fast or find a way to do it with the existing stuff at least with as much of our things as I can handle, all the while parenting the kids, clean and cook, deal with the garbage (which reminds me I think tomorrow morning is pick up again) the messes that WERE left in all teh other rooms, and placing what I can place after finding it in the boxes which the movers didn't really label...(well they did write something on every box, but almost never that what was actually IN the box. I wish I could think it was intended as a practicdal joke but I fear it was sheer stupidity of lazyness).... I am just so tired.
It feels like it is never ending. I just been through all of that stuff and They packed quite a number of things that I didn't want (and some of tehm are now borken, so I have garbage to deal with again - which I find particularly exhausting - and I had thought that I left that task back in germany. It seems I was wrong.
I am sooo tired of having to find a solution for everything on my own. This is supposed to be a family, not a one woman show. The good news is: Manou went to preschool today and kind of liked it (the bad news is, When I came she was amd because she fell asleep way too late during naptime and got pulled out of REM phase) The other bad news was that Renée had the snivels so badly last night that I kept her home (which was teh right thing to do but robbed me of alone time) She is better now and I have high hopes for tommorrow.
I am too much alone and yet not enough alone. I am not sure if that makes sense to anybody. It doesn't really need to. BUt to me it does: I am alone in organizinn my alone time, which I am in desperate need for. DESPERATE. I need more that just a few stolen hours which get eaten away simply by getting stuff we need here. I got a bit of the snivels too, methinx and that isn't helping matters.
I want to lie down in my almost-bed and not have to get up at all. I am really tired. And I am overeating badly too. I don't know what to do, but SOmehow I will get through this week, get a xmas tree and cook a delicious Solstice meal, read some, sleep some and cuddle some. I'll just try and forget the yelling and crying in the time in between.
SIgh.
well, there is no helping it. This is what it is going to be until christmas at least.
- Location:arlington
- Music:the sound of my way to full of air heating base boards
We used to be the quintessential peer couple. we did the same things with variation. BUt we did it together. This week I had to paint teh kid's rooms. Which worked ok. BUt that used to be a job for the two of us. a decade ago we would have been doing it as a team. And we are a good team. Now we are still a team but it is more like he is the coach and I am the goalie.
I still haven't heard from teh movers and a snow storm has been annouced for wednesday so I am thinking it likely that that might be the date for the container. (incidentally I will have a sleepover guest next monday through wednesday, so wednesday it is ;) fated to be)
I have read up on my Cunningham and learning about Wicca is helping me getting a more prositive grasp on my life I think.
His trike is still not in a working condition. I hope the handyman guy is back soon from his shopping at the store so that I can quickly ride up to the Vienna Bike store so they can fix this for him. Tomorrow is his last possiblity to ride his bike to work before he is off on mission.
The floors are done now and I am going to start prepping the kid's rooms for painting today, maybe if manou liked it at Sofia's I can get some painting done tommorow.
Things are looking up
- Location:Arlington, VA
- Mood:bouncy
- Music:mtv Video hour
We are still camping (in a different room every other day) moving out of the way of teh floor peeps). Starting tommorrow I should be able to move our stuff into the master bedroom starting tomorrow (luckily we had not unpacked most of our bags yet), be able to use the kitchen freely and starting putting things into our living room. We bought some nice book shelves at an estate sale for a very good price.
The kids are settling down somewhat even though everything is still in flux. though today is the only day when I am not boxed in with things that I absolutely need to accomplish this very day.
so. basically : still alive here
So, we went to kingdom university even though I was bone tired and reallz reallz sick. I had been sick since fridaz last week, sick as in fever, coughing fits, runnz nose, stuffy nose...the full monty. And no it wasn't Swine flu it was simply a November cold. Which hasn"t past yet. Well, we went anzways and it was glorious. I had been pretty blazee about the entire moving thingy, having been way to bust actually doing all of it for thinking about what was going to happen. Then I fell ill and missed everything about the actual packing up. I haven"t even seen my empty old apartment. Well, I got somewhat better over the week, but at Kingdom University I was still so sick ,that I left class ealy and got a nap (which I never do during daytime, I cannot fall asleep at night, but I figured that wasn't such a bad thing at my last HUrrah at Drachenwald) When we were called before their majesties to receive our PCB tokens I suddenly found myself sobbing uncontrollably. I couldn't stop during the whole affair and the crying went on for some time after the ceremony. I will miss these folk so incredibly. It was the first group that I really felt at home in. I had friends in all kinds of subgroups and I love each and everyone one of them even though some cannot stand each other. NOt that I understand that, but hey it is a free country ;)
So I got to bed around 11 p.m. knowing that I was going to drive the biggest stretch to Frankfurt airport (some 5oo km away from the site) starting at 4 a.m. We had rented a lovelz car which not only could hold all of our luggage, but it had a powerfull engine, and I would have burned some good bye rubber on our Autobahn system if it hadn't been for almost constant construction on literally ALL of the ones I needed to use. Still I have to recommend driving on Sunday mornings between 4 and 7 a.m. You are utterlz alone on the streets and thus it took us indeed the 4 1/2 hours the Sat Nav had estimated to get to Frankfurt airport, which got us there around 8.30. Since our flight left at 1 a.m. that was a tad early but we hung out in the seriously overflowing Business lounge until 11 I think (and mind you all that security checking etc took up quite some time. We boarded at 12 which was a problem, since we didn't get us lunch before and then the lunch serving on the plane got delayed by jet stream involvement ;) BUt they delayed just long enough that Manou fell asleep She missed the food (but was taken care of thereafter) I had two short naps on the flight too, which was good and kept me going until after 8 p.m. heretime (about 21 hours methinx) We deboarded without any trouble the hertz bus was waiting for us and the driver helped Andre with all the luggage. Then there was a tiny hickup but we got the ordered Sienna (big enough to take all teh luggage and give us an idea on the car itself (which is not as gigantic as I feared it might be) ) and around 6 p.m. we pulled into our new utterly unlit driveway, showing the kids the empty and DARK house as all the utilities had been turned off (except - I found out today_ the phone and tV O.o?????) It doesn't look too good for getting everything connected today :O Got to buy lots of candles and no too much stuff that needs refrigeration, sigh. Hubby will be at work all day until very late he will not return until the night has fallen truly and since I am with his phone the state of things will be somewhat of a surprise. I hope I can get the keys for our friend's place which holds our sleeping essentials today, because tonight we will sleep in our house, I just don"t know how well we will sleep. Sigh.
So it is just as Perdita foretold: Now that I am done with the old place I am basically stuck with making the new one (which I really hope will have water, gas and electricity etc SOON.
I am typing this at 5.30 in the morning, one would think that being sick and having traveled for as much as I did one could sleep ion, but my body has issues. BUt Since I know that I will be adjusting over the course of the week, I am fine with getting up early using the hotel's computer (knowing that my access will be severely limited in the next few days. I"ll post again when I am ready.
- Location:Arlington, VA
- Mood:busy
- Music:some radiostation in the background
The Kiddo is slightly better than the day before yesterday, I am not sure that it is an additional step since yesterday, actually I suspect it is a step backwards :(
I managed to get most of the pertinent packing problems handled, expect for one but I should be able to deal with it in the come two or so hours I hope. between coughing fits and sneezing fits I supose.
before anyone (again) asks. I am fairly sure that this is NOT swineflu. It is November my little one got wet and then my mum didn't MAKE her change her clothes and then I didn't see that the shoes she choose were soaking wet. Two days later she starts on a mild cough and very slowly developed a cold. A viscous cold but a cold. and about three days into cuddling her and comforting her I get sick too, slowly getting worse. PLUS I was vaccinated (both seasonal and Swine) about two and a half weeks ago and I was fine after that. It is not the freaking flu it is just Fall! (END rant here, you guys weren't teh ones who got on my nerves with this so you shouldn't have to bear my annoyance, sorry.
I will still be online until Friday I suppose but after that I will have to wait until I get my I-net/TV/telephone plan all figured out, paid and set up. In Arlington. It still seems rather unreal to me even with all the boxes around me.
- Location:in the folding chair,bonn
- Mood:
cranky
- Music:little one singing *the sweetest lady*
- Location:still here
- Mood:scared
What am I to do?
she had said she needed to run it by her husband but I still think that
(a) her husband is a major player in a big lawfirm
(b) the price was truly fair for both of us, 800 isn't
(c) she says I am her friend and we had discussed payment after th 1000 decision in terms of when etc without any indication that she considered the price too high.
(d)she now has about 90 percent of the stuff already in her home
and I am reluctant to accept this bad offer, since I think it is very bad form.
I mailed back saying something like OOps I thought we had agreed on 1000. If she writes back insting on 800 what should I do?
any suggestions here?
- Mood:
Thorvaldr and Fiona! Victorious in the most abyssmal of weather, the succession is secured :)
Yesterday afternoon was - as usual- eaten up by various appointments the kids needed to be driven to (and me staying around to dwindle my thumbs while shitloads of work are waiting here) BUt the kids were happy again at their english classes.
I met with a highschool friend who just moved back to this place at a restaurant for dinner. Little did I know that the construction on the street it is on would be in full swing in the middle of the night. So instead of eating at a nice cozy place with good atmosphere I was eating on a footballfield (man, those lights are bright) and instead of some meaningless music I had jackhammer noise. I have been battling with a headachestint, (bad weather plus a real idiotic hairdresser's screw up with my neck, sigh)
I am in a crappy mood, I know it and I expect it to pass soon, Probably after I had the morning of thursday to myself.
- Mood:blah
I am dealing quite ok with all this throw-things-out, but the bed was difficult. Hubby had built it after tons of nudging and it was just perfect. Sturdy, Solid wood,no movement other than the mattrace giving way to your body. I loved that bed. I really did. But there was no way it made sense to take along to the US. So, we sold it and today it got picked up. Sigh. I stayed out of the bedroom for the time it got dismantled (it was really sturdy).
The guys are coming back one more time, to get the *closets* We call it a schrank, but I have yet to find the right word to translate it, but that is what we use as *closets* here, since typically german houses don't have closests. They decided against taking hubby's comfy seat, so that will go into the garbage in November, but the good news is, that he still has it for the remaining four weeks. ( only two and a half of which he will be here)
I was a good girl and basically packed the stuff that was in those sideboards and cupboards directly so that they are moving ready. I also put the clothes into a box, but we might need them in the meantime. I should get one of these transport your clothes hanging containers, only that we won't, we'll move them in suitcases, maybe my inlaws, will lend us their guest stuff hanging rail :)
Now, all that I am left with are a mattrace, my folding camping chair and a real mess. SIgh. hubby is coming back tomorrow. I put all the garbage bags that I used during this episode into the tub since there was no other place for it. and I will charge hubby with the task of getting them into the car and to the dump site. I try not too hard to think about the fact that very little of this stuff actually qualifies as garbage in my book (or else it would have been thrown out long ago) But it is amazing how much clutter you accumulate in your life. clutter that makes total sense in one setting and none whatsoever in another. I still don't know if we got rid of enough for a 20 foot container rather than a 40 foot one... And hubby still has to sift through tons of stuff, sigh. I hope this time he DOES it. I had to discard an estimated 2 tons of empty wire hangers from his closet. arrrghgh.
And then there are the people who point (quite reasonably but also anoyingly insistent) out that we shouldn't throw this stuff away. and they keep pointing it out regardless of the fact that we will be moving in six weeks, four of which I am still around two of which I am alone with the kids and I have NO energy anymore. I have asked around, but peeps are very specific about what they like and they don't really want used stuff it seems. also, they are busy, and have trouble with saying I will pick it up then and then... I don't need additional stress factors, thank you very much much. BUt it is surprisingly stressful to adress those insistent remarks.
also everybody and their second cousin wants to know everything about this move from ME. I am happy to go but I am thinking of this are primarily HUbby's baby, I would like him to be the person to explain the whys and hows and whens, but no, he isn't here.. so I get to do it over and over again. SIgh. these kind and interested people also put out all their concerns. And then I get to adress those concerns (most of which are IMO either naive or really weird, like: OMG, you'll have to live without a bed for at least 6 weeks....? I mean... really??? I have a mattrace and a perfectly functioning floor, what is the problem????
Sigh. BUt basically I am just ranting about the fact that I am tired and way too slow for my own liking. Since:
WE ARE MOVING IN SIX WEEKS: YAY!
I also wish I wouldn't find it so hard to get rid of our stuff. Actually I have sold a good part of our furniture already I have someone who is considering to take our car in November, I got rid of maybe 60 % of our books sorted quite a bit of stuff into the fleamarket boxes (which I hope to get rid of the staurday after next) and I have been to the garbage disposal site almost daily for a week, and while the place is looking emptier it is still so far to go before I am where I think we should be. the good news, is that I almost emptied at least three cupboards and teh kids room is empty except for the stuff we are going to take along (except the one box that I need to sift through) SIgh. I wish I had done that already too.
I also wish this was a bit easier. If all goes well this will be over in 64 days.
*scary*
- Location:still in good ol germany
- Mood:anxious
- Music:construction noise
HE'S A PIRATE
- Music:baseballs- hot and cold
I am in fact now certain that I am allowed to bring some of my preserves and Nuspli (a nut nougat spread something like Nutella)
the more problematic issue is the one of householdeffects which have been in *use* are in a possiblity to use for at least one year in my household. I am sure I bought some things in the last 12 months which I would have to list, but I would be hard pressed to say which ones. Also, how about Fabric which I have had in store but which has not exactly been Used yet. It is not all that easy to comply with the law. Sigh. I think most of our Medieval stuff is younger than 132 months, but most of that has been bought used. There is this one wooden Box, which I bought used for a bout 20 € but I don't have a receipt or anything... SIgh.
But since we don't actually yet have a moving timeline or anything even remotely like it (so far everything is guesswork) I am not sure that I need to fret all that much yet, but since I can't help it anyways, I might at least put that fretting to good use.
(BTW if any of you knows somebody living in teh Bethesda area of Maryland and they look at moving soon...We are looking for a house to rent 4 bedrooms preferrably on the inside of the Potomac as my husband would like to bike to teh WOrld Bank, and we are looking at relocation in December or January)
- Location:still here
- Music:blissfull silence
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