random thoughts – Day 1,949 – (Friday) – life size tetris

 It was a day when I was awake at 4:22 and got up at 5:15. After making coffee, I was outside painting by 6:00 and conquered the rest of the shed. Then there was the drinking of more coffee and the packing of boxes. The remaining coffee beans were ground so the grinder could be packed with the other small kitchen gadgets like the spiralizer and food chopper. English fine bone china from the first marriage was carefully wrapped and packed. Small coffee cups and saucers from Mummu that are from Finland were wrapped and boxed. By the time my sister arrived to help there were a sufficient number of boxes to be loaded into the cube.

Sis and I made huge progress adding more boxes to the cube without using any additional floor space because this is basically real life size Tetris and she is the absolute master of packing shapes and making things fit. Once we had a solid backwall of boxes and tubs, we added a couple big pieces.

Weird dining room.

The dining table was dismantled and the top installed against a side wall in the cube and now the room looks simultaneously freakishly empty and full of stuff. Loading the table cleared the dining room for the passage of all other furniture en route to the egress. The cedar chest was emptied and wrangled downstairs, across the deck and into the cube in front of the table top. Then we refilled the chest with its former contents. 

After several hours of labor, we called it a day and poured some wine. It was comfortable outside so we sat on the deck for a well-deserved break. Tomorrow, we’re back at it, with reinforcements in the form of a couple friends and we'll be back to another round of real life Tetris. It’s ten days to closing on the sale and twelve days to the buy, so it’s go time.