Where are my bandaids?

Three days into the unpacking and much progress to report. The kitchen is now entirely unpacked, organized and ready for use.  Mr. NYer, unfortunately, has a map of the old kitchen hard-wired in his brain, and can’t find anything.  I’ve explained the logic endlessly:  the flatware and dishes are near the table, for ease when [...]

In the new house

Tonight we will sleep in our bed, on our own mattress.  We are so looking forward to it. It took three guys about 8 hours to pack all of our stuff.  It will take us a lot longer to unpack.  The boxes and furniture arrived on Tuesday.  We spent the next two evenings and all [...]

Untethering

Where is my tether? I’m referring, of course, to the cord that attaches my Blackberry to my computer and allows me to have Internet access anywhere.  Once we turn in the cable boxes, we’ll need it.  I can’t find it. This is probably the 10th or 15th item I couldn’t find today.  On the phone, [...]

D-day Minus four

No sagas, reveries or wry observations today folks.  Tonight’s post is purely to catch up. We hosted 45 friends and family at an open house on New Year’s Day.  Last night, we went to dinner and played Beatles Trivial Pursuit (not for the faint-hearted) with six friends whom we hadn’t seen on New  Year’s Day.  [...]

I Am a Cast-Iron Frying Pan

I am a cast-iron frying pan.  Or maybe a griddle. Like the pan, I perform really well once I’m heated up.  You know the rule for pancakes, don’t you?  Throw the first batch out — the pan probably wasn’t hot enough. When I begin a new project, especially one that requires a bit of stretching [...]

Countdown: 10 days left

Today was my first day at home.  With the Project done and the holidays over, I can now focus on getting ready to move.  I made a list of things to do that included making some doctors appointments, scheduling the cat for the vets, tying up 2009 paperwork, buying return airline tickets for Mr. NYer [...]

Contemplating Packing

The last time we moved, in April 1983, we rented a U-Haul, enlisted about a half-dozen friends, and carried  all of our belongings from our apartment to our new house in the course of the morning on the day after we closed on the house.  That  afternoon, the couple moving into our apartment used the same U-Haul (and a [...]