The Packers....

[purpletigron]

... have landed!!!

purplecthulhu's room is already stripped back and filled with boxes, and they're doing my room now!

This means I get to have a rest, which is very nice indeed - just a few gentle phone calls, chasing up the last few urgent official CoAs. Also, just pottered through the park to the shops to get some English apple juice (a.k.a. soft cider, cloudy, from apples grown and pressed in Suffolk) for G - it's very humid today, so everyone is sweating, and the movers are downing pints of water as well as cups of (Fairtrade* :-) tea and coffee.

*They've borrowed my wind-up radio to listen to as well..

(I'm having to update from G's computer, because it seems that the problems with the handling of JavaScript in Opera 5 are finally preventing me from using the LJ Web interface to update my journal any more. Time to devote some time to upgrading my Linux box... Mozilla, here we come :-)

Comments

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

This post verges on the H.P.Lovecraftian -- as his protagonists continued scribbling madly until the monster bit their heads off, will you be typing up until the moment the packers wrest the keyboard from you?

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Very likely... Bwa-ha-ha!!! :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Good luck with all this. I *hate* moving with a passion, having done it some unreasonable number of times. But I do like unpacking....!

Travelling lighter?

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Being muchly moved myself, I must say that it's nice to be able to afford to pay someone else to pack, and to have someone around to help supervise the packers :-)

Unpacking is good in a `like opening gifts' way? I've done a lot of `filleting' of stuff this move - we've easily disposed of 15 large sacks of things - and intend to fillet some more on the way out of the boxes, too. So that will be good...

Re: Travelling lighter?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It's the ability to institute an at least temprorary aura of absolute tidiness. Everything (in theory at least) acquires a new place and All Is Orderly. And then, being me, I promplty disrupt it all looking for the purple pen/copy of Sima Qian/cat t-towel/whatever that I put somewhere sensible and now can't find!
I'm not a neat-freak, I'm just a wannabe neat-freak. Sad, or what?

Re: Travelling lighter?

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I appear to be constitutionally incapable of doing neat ... but I'm determined to try this time. One of my problems is that I am descended from a long line of hoarders, and I'm very bad at defining `proper places for things!

So, you're well ahead of me here :-)

Re: Travelling lighter?

[(Anonymous)]

I highly recommend Organizing From the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern. She discusses the whys of disorganization, and never tells you that you have too much or shouldn't do this or that--she works with what you've got, and does talk at length about how to define proper places for things.

The book was a huge help for me when we set up our new house.

Love, Dayle

Re: Travelling lighter?

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Hiya! This sounds like exactly the kind of advice that I need...