I was recently left home alone for a week–only one problem. I had to work every day that week, so I had very little free time to enjoy the silence.
Status check?
My husband took the kids to the cottage for three days over the summer. It was heaven!
The house was quiet. I could do whatever I wanted. I only had to clean up after myself.
I made some ham and au gratin potatoes and green beans, and they were just done when she got home Saturday afternoon/evening. She was starving, and she likes baked ham. We got a couple of things out of the back of the truck, but did the unloading proper yesterday. It was warm (about 50°F or so) and occasionally drizzling, and we were moving a bunch of heavy stuff. Good thing I’d put air in the hand-truck tires. We swapped out the couches, which meant I had to take the screens off the French doors. Can’t get the bloody things on now. (I hate those screen doors.) We started unloading aroung eight o’clock, and finished up moving the unwated stuff in, the unwanted stuff out, and her stuff she didn’t need in the house into the storage unit around one o’clock. We tried to put the ‘Guy couch’ and ‘Guy loveseat’ into the storage unit until they could be given away. The couch was too long. At this point, I was exhausted from the heavy lilfting, dripping sweat, and exasperated. I said, ‘F*ck it. Let’s take them to the dump.’ (Note that it’s rare I drop the F-bomb.) We put the couch and love seat in her pick-up, and she took care of turning in the U-Haul truck while I went to the local dump. It’s more expensive than the one about 15 miles away, but it’s like 14 miles closer. It was worth $42 to be done with it. Surprised the SO though, when I returned so quickly. She thought that the local dump was only for used oil and paint and such.
So her stuff has supplanted and/or augmented my stuff. The cat went around sniffing things he hadn’s seen in two years. SO is happy that she has a proper dresser (her dresser and her TV. And her dish washer. Now she thinks it’s a good idea if I buy a 42" HDTV with Internest access for the living room.