arontius | Monday. Monday. (Reply)

.....It was a very long weekend, but sitting at my desk at work it feels like I just left here. What a disconnect. :-)

.....There were a lot of frustrations over the weekend. I arrived at Mom's house early enough on Saturday. And then quickly realized that even though Mom has been saying for two months that she is sorting through her stuff and packing it for the move, that she hasn't really done a thing. I grumbled a little but thankfully not too loudly. I put together a load of stuff and took it to the house. After the off-load my intent was to load up the Baronial Copier and take it to the dump with a load of 'stuff' from Mom's.

.....OMG, the Baronial Copier is freakin' HEAVY. I could not get it into the van by myself, no matter what I did. So I started taking it apart. This thing is definitely from the '70's. Holy Cow! I must have removed a couple of hundred little screws just in the first half hour alone. I eventually was able to get about half of it taken apart and thrown into the van before I had to give it up. Even with half the crap off of it, the copier was STILL too heavy to lift into the van. It is currently a monument to '70's solidness sitting on my driveway. Quite the monolith. :-)

.....Went back to Mom's and loaded up as much junk for the landfill as I could get into the van. Was trying to catch up with the schedule I laid out for the day. And I made some ground as it was a pretty quick trip. Then took Mom out looking at apartments. With her budget and other considerations, Mom does not have a whole lot of choices when it comes to apartments. But that did not phase her, she soundly rejected each and every place at which we toured. There was one she rejected because of the steps going into the apartment. There were three. But there are eight going into her current place. By the end of the day I was rather frustrated. But I managed to keep my mouth shut. Quite the feat, I was rather proud of myself at that point.

.....On Sunday I slept in a little bit, cleaned the house a little and drug myself back to Mom's house. I got in at least one load of stuff and then packed up another before the cavalry arrived. Mistress Gwen and Tsuruko Sensei showed up. I soooooo appreciated them showing up. They swept into the main junk room, packed everything up and loaded a large portion of it into Gwen's truck. I was really grateful. As I've stated before, I've got really good friends. I hope that I can pay them back some day.

.....I was frustrated and cranky by the time we finished loading up the main room at Mom's. I didn't really want to take it out on her even though I was seriously frustrated at her lack of support over the past couple of months. As well as embarrassed that my friends did what she has been promising that she would herself do. So I knew that it was time to call it a day. I took the crew out for lunch at the Mongolian grill in Silverdale and then went home to get ready for the work week.

.....The good news is that the emphasis is off of getting Mom packed in a hurry, as she'll be in her current place for another month ('til the end of July). The bad news is that she's be in her current slum for another month and that my house is going to have to house her stuff for a month longer than I anticipated. Tamm and I are going to have to work around that unfortunately. Sigh! Tamm has enough on her plate without having to work around crap like this. I suppose that I'm being somewhat unfair to Mom, but I'm not feeling very charitable this morning. Better go and have some caffeine. :-)

.....Hope that everyone has a good week. The July Crier is done, and that IS good news, no matter what else happens. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.