Too Much Pizza Man
Mar. 19th, 2006 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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scirocco and oxlahun for all of their incredibly hard work today!
Mysmurfbrother is in town (as of yesterday) and rented yet another dumpster, this time to rid the house of some old, broken furniture, most of the contents of the basement, and all of the junk Jen and I have bagged up around the house for the past couple of months. It's kind of sad that two months of work can take an hour or so to haul away, but I take some satisfaction in our quick job time. I know that it would have taken eons to haul out had we not bagged it all and placed it in a centralized location near the front door. After all, when the auction folks went through and took what they wanted, they just kind of... left whatever they didn't, wherever they felt like leaving it. So it was a project.
My uncle and cousin came by as well, ostensibly to help but Uncle Joe usually uses these opportunities for junk picking and nostalgia, and today was no different. Still, he walked out with three cigar boxes full of lighters and all of the train stuff that the auction folks didn't take. Thanks, Uncle Joe! Wiley ended up taking the plasma ball thinger for Hannah which is cool... but I really wanted to smash it. It would have been so tinkly. Aah well. No destruction today.
There's still some stuff in the house, which is positively AMAZING for a project that has now involved 10 months and at least three dumpsters. There is some furniture that needs to be donated somewhere, some furniture that I am trying to sell on craigslist, some furniture that needs to come to my house someday, and a whoooole lotta housewares that need to go to Goodwill or something. But all of the housewares, at least, are also boxed/bagged and in a centralized location for easy removal.
I suppose the next thing we'll end up doing is cleaning the apartment - vacuuming floors, pulling nails out of walls. The basement should probably be swept as well. Yuck.
Someday, there will be a time when I am not a slave to this house.
scirocco and oxlahun for all of their incredibly hard work today!My
smurfbrother is in town (as of yesterday) and rented yet another dumpster, this time to rid the house of some old, broken furniture, most of the contents of the basement, and all of the junk Jen and I have bagged up around the house for the past couple of months. It's kind of sad that two months of work can take an hour or so to haul away, but I take some satisfaction in our quick job time. I know that it would have taken eons to haul out had we not bagged it all and placed it in a centralized location near the front door. After all, when the auction folks went through and took what they wanted, they just kind of... left whatever they didn't, wherever they felt like leaving it. So it was a project.My uncle and cousin came by as well, ostensibly to help but Uncle Joe usually uses these opportunities for junk picking and nostalgia, and today was no different. Still, he walked out with three cigar boxes full of lighters and all of the train stuff that the auction folks didn't take. Thanks, Uncle Joe! Wiley ended up taking the plasma ball thinger for Hannah which is cool... but I really wanted to smash it. It would have been so tinkly. Aah well. No destruction today.
There's still some stuff in the house, which is positively AMAZING for a project that has now involved 10 months and at least three dumpsters. There is some furniture that needs to be donated somewhere, some furniture that I am trying to sell on craigslist, some furniture that needs to come to my house someday, and a whoooole lotta housewares that need to go to Goodwill or something. But all of the housewares, at least, are also boxed/bagged and in a centralized location for easy removal.
I suppose the next thing we'll end up doing is cleaning the apartment - vacuuming floors, pulling nails out of walls. The basement should probably be swept as well. Yuck.
Someday, there will be a time when I am not a slave to this house.
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Date: 2006-03-20 12:53 am (UTC)it must be a relief to be almost finished. from what i've read, cleaning out that house was an incredibly large job.
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Date: 2006-03-20 01:18 am (UTC)Do you need one of those television armoires? We have one that's quite fancy. Also a little toy box that you could totally have. Would you like a fake fur coat? A statue of Ronald Reagan? Oh wait, we gave that to my uncle.
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Date: 2006-03-20 02:34 am (UTC)Seriously? *boggles*
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Date: 2006-03-20 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-20 02:47 am (UTC)Did you ever come across my doll?
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Date: 2006-03-20 02:50 am (UTC)If I find it sooner, I will totally let you know. I promise!
And yeah, my grandmother usually gives her housewares to the Big Sisters, because I guess they help women move into their first apartments or whatever. So we can probably get rid of it through them, too.
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Date: 2006-03-20 03:46 am (UTC)when are you coming down to RI next? we need to get together for coffee. if you need someone to cart the furniture away, that's cool- but if you were looking to sell it, i'd be willing to pay too- let me know.
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Date: 2006-03-20 04:13 am (UTC)I think we'll be in town next Sunday to chill with my grandparents a little bit. They're out of town this weekend, and we'll be in New Orleans soon, so I should go see them before the guilt begins!
So if you're around next Sunday, let me know. Otherwise, beginning of April we'll be back from Nola. Who knows? Maybe we'll get together sometime when we're BOTH knocked up!
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Date: 2006-03-20 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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