The hard part is that sense of obligation that these things should go to someone who would remember who they belonged to and what they meant.
Yes, this.
God, so tired. Many many things gone from the house, some of which I got money for. Did manage to get a nap. More help coming tomorrow! Thank heavens for friends. Need to eat, change clothes and go socialize, have no energy to cook but shouldn't eat out. Pronouns gone. Made one last stop at the local hardware and said goodbye to the guy who's been at the cash register since I started as a carpenter in 1998, feeling a little sentimental about that. I liked having a hardware store where they know my name.
Pronouns gone.
Did you get rid of them on Craigslist?
I'm glad Progressive is a good company, because we're trying to get money out of them when one of their drivers hit one of our cars. If Hubby hadn't lost the tow truck receipts . . .
Also, it's looking like this year's surgery will be on Hubby's hip. We haven't gone into that joint in a while, I suppose it was feeling neglected.
Don't get me started on car insurance companies!
But Pix, this I can offer:
When an insurance company pulled shenanigans over a rental car (on which I had purchased the additional insurance, natch) accident...that was not my fault, I eventually went to the Ohio State Insurance Board.
After battling for more than 6 extremely stressful months, the entire affair was miraculously resolved in A DAY.
All hail the consumer protection branch of a state trade org.
Not sure if California has the same, but I can't imagine that they don't offer some sort of recourse on the state level.
Progressive (who, for the record, have been amazing throughout this whole process; I'd recommend them to anyone)
oh, good. This has been our insurance company since we moved here.
I liked having a hardware store where they know my name.
You may well again, this is like the smallest town masquerading as a city ever.
Progressive (who, for the record, have been amazing throughout this whole process; I'd recommend them to anyone)
This is good to hear--I used to have them, and switched, but am contemplating going back because AllState has been a PITA (I haven't even had any claims!! And still!)
I need more damned spoons. I have just enough spoons to look like I have all the spoons I need, but I don't. I run out of spoons well before all the milk is gone. Why don't I have more spoons?
...Zen is that an actual spoon thing, or a disability-metaphor-spoons thing?
Cause if the former, I kept having that problem with forks. So I bought a dozen at Walmart for about $4. Now we run out of knives.
I am so fucking out of spoons. I actually looked at my flatware drawer that was also out of spoons and ugh. Need more spoons. And to run my dishwasher. But mostly the metaphorical spoons.
Spoons
Yeah, I run out of literal spoons a lot. I think because I use them to stir the coffee just the once, and then I leave it lying there. And then make another pot of coffee, and I have to get a fresh spoon for the sugar, which I then use to stir the coffee and then I leave it lying there.
Also, how is it that the cleaning is never actually done? I keep feeling like the house is right on the verge of being awesome and clean and done, but it never actually is. And tomorrow I leave (probably, more on that later) but our caravan buddy is sleeping over tonight, and we have a housesitter for the summer, so I need to wash linens in the morning. If I were just leaving for the summer, I'd be content with how the house is. But since someone's moving in, I want it to be habitable, but I just keep seeing more to do. But we leave at 7 in the morning. And it's habitable.
I need to chill.
