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, [...]

Getting a Move On …

Yikes — Lifelongnewyorker and Mr. NYer are moving this week! We’ve been trying to nail down a closing date all week and late yesterday–a Friday–we got the word that it’s either this Thursday or in three weeks.  For various reasons we decided that sooner is better than later. But.  Lifelongnewyorker is in Atlanta on business.  Mr. [...]

The Dynamo Descends

I am packed and ready to roll tomorrow once we jam all this stuff into the car. That I’d be ready today wasn’t a sure thing yesterday afternoon.  My plan for the last two days was to go through all my clothes on one day and pack ‘em up on the next. By 2 pm [...]

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 [...]

Lists, Records and Spare Change

Christmas preparations are no longer an excuse.  Neither, as of Wednesday, will work on The Project.  Even Mr. NYer agrees that it’s time to figure  out the moving thing. Yesterday, with notebook in hand, we walked room to room, making a list of things that needed to be done, most of which included the word [...]

Too Much Cleaning

We got a lot done this weekend, and I’m weary of the work.  The sign went up outside the house on Wednesday.  No showings so far, but the realtor said we’d have a week or so to really get the house ready.  So that was the main task this weekend.  By Thanksgiving, we’d already done what was necessary [...]

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 [...]