Well…
Yes, it is still my problem because I am still down-sizing the 30 years of stuff my late spouse and I accumulated, and cleaning out the old place, and the landlord is still a friend and I’m still planning to help him out some as a friend.
Although today I didn’t do much - I moved my second vehicle to its new home in my new place (but not before someone stole my license plate, so yesterday I got to run around to get a temporary plate and a new permanent one on order), and gave a big roaster pan to the friend who gave me the lift back to the old place (she really likes to cook and will have more use for it than I ever have or will). With the power on again (yes, they restored power about 10 hours after the movers got my big stuff out, of course they did…) we’ll be able to vacuum and stuff, and have lights. The heat is back on. The water pressure is an issue, but I’m told it’s fixable.
My friend from today and I made plans to get an early start on Monday and make some real progress (we’re both off that day), then do something fun afterward. Between now and then I’m going to clean out a much better path through the spare bedroom to the well head (which was blocked when I moved stuff so the moving pros could get the big stuff out). What was the name for those puzzles where it a picture made of tiles except one tile was missing so you could shift everything around? Sort of like a 2D rubik’s cube? That’s sort of my life back at the old place.
May have to spend a day or two at the new place putting things away/organizing. I’m hoping I actually do have a couple months in which to do all this, which I should, unless more Stuff Happens.
Spent a couple hours putting the big, complicated ginormous TV/entertainment center back together again. When I plugged it into the wall and hit the “on” switch nothing exploded, which I took as a good sign, but I’m getting no TV reception. I’m suspecting the TV antennae hook up in the wall does not actually work. I have a separate antenna, but I’m too tired to fool with it tonight. I also still have to reconnect everything on the electric piano and figure out why the Linux computer and the monitor aren’t speaking to each other. (The laptop, though, still works fine, as demonstrated by this post).
So… maybe I did do a bunch of stuff after all. Organizing the new place still counts as moving, right? And it’s important to be organized.
It’s been a real emotional roller coaster. The social worker who runs the bereavement group I attend most weeks has been giving me some extra help to get through all this (as have other friends and various entities) and one of the things she has reminded me to do is pace myself - I need some down time in order to finish this marathon.
Mixed up a big batch of home made surface/window cleaner, too, so while all this stuff it being moved around/packed/unpacked I can clean things up.
So… tomorrow after work I’ll put some time in at the old place, the old landlord will be around working on the place on the weekend and I’ll be stopping in again after work, and just keep doing a bit every day until it all goes away.
I mentioned that I’d rather see stuff go to people who want/will use stuff, so I have had people asking me about things - like kitchen equipment, candles, my husband’s tools and technical books (I’ve been offered money for those) so maybe a lot of stuff will find new homes, which will make me happy and would have made my husband happy. Still a lot to do.
I try not to get depressed and overwhelmed. I try to focus on the fact I’ve already done quite a bit. That, and the fact I found a set of bagpipes forgotten under the bed at the old place. I wasn’t too surprised by the underbed storage box, but bagpipes? I didn’t know we still had a set. The old landlord and I actually kind of laughed about - we both met my husband because of bagpipes and the notion that there was a set lurking under the bed amused us.
