In re moving: I have, in the past, made "happy moving day" baskets for friends. Contents will include (yes, a lightbulb), a flashlight, toilet paper, paper plates and plastic flatware and, since most of my friends are women, tampons.

Well, my plan to use my day off to get a ton done is not going like gangbusters, but I think I my To Do list is gradually shrinking rather than growing and I did manage to finally finish the leftover cake from Wednesday, so that's something. Maybe I'll try to get a little more done before I break for lunch, since I am so full of cake at the moment.

My house was a foreclosure we bought from the bank, so it had been stripped of pretty much everything before we ever saw it. Since we knew that was what we were getting it was fine. And we told the movers to leave a few things at the place we were moving out of (like a lamp that had been there when we moved in) and they ignored us and packed it all up, so possibly not always the sellers fault.

That's a great idea, Toddson!

I have no desire to eat the lunch I brought today, but I am also feeling much too lazy to go get something else.

I need a grilled cheese fairy.

The first thing I thought when I read the phrase "Erotic Accordian" was that one's penis would get caught in the bellows as one plays it.

Well, I believe one's penis getting caught in something was implied by the instructional picture, yes.

Shower curtain and rings. That's one thing that is almost never there and you desperately want after hauling all that shit.

I just spent a few minutes looking at the personals on Craigslist and found a woman who's looking for a man who "doesn't use Fluoride toothpaste, acknowledges The Kemet and The Ankh, and is respectful toward women."

Fluoride toothpaste is a deal-breaker?

I think brushing your teeth would be a deal breaker ... but, then, I'm single and unlikely to change that.

Anyone with that as a deal breaker is a whackaloon and probably thinks vaccination is the devil's work.

Gronk.

What is the deal with lightbulb fraud? (These were cheap incandescent bulbs.)

I confess that I have, as a renter, used compact fluorescent bulbs when I lived in a place and swapped them back out for dollar store incandescents when I moved out. They were my own CFLs, though.

Well, I believe one's penis getting caught in something was implied by the instructional picture, yes.

Hahaha!

Jesus, people are so petty as to take light fixtures? Part of our reno to try to get the house to sell for the price we need is BUYING new light fixtures for 5 rooms!

I mean, I AM taking our new fancy showerhead we got for Xmas, but we wrote that into our disclosure, and saved the old one (which work fine, but the fancy one is awesome!) and will put it back on before we move. We're leaving blinds too, and are buying a few blinds for the dining room.

We have a 2nd open house on the 22nd, after all the reno is done, and unlike the first opem house, which was the fucking day after we got home from Xmas travel and a week and a half after we found out that Elizabeth had put the house on the market ("I thought you agreed with me!" sez she, and Dan had totally had been clear about not wanting to start showings until after Micah left from the holidays.)

So the house was normal-clean, but in no way suitable for an open house.

This time I'm letting my Virgo loose on this bitch! It'll look GREAT.