random thoughts – Day 1,956 – (Friday) – still packing it in

It is the home stretch for life-size Tetris - The Build. The box gets picked up Monday, so it needs to be loaded and locked Sunday. Productive quality time today was spent rearranging some of the placements done last weekend, now that the questionable items have been decided and there is a clearer picture of exactly what is coming with me and needs to be packed.

Still packing it in.

The packing tape ran out again, requiring a trip to Family Dollar. All the smaller boxes have been used up (again) as I built up the back wall. Three bookcases were relocated from a side wall to the center back to square the load off. The bookcases were emptied in the house and brought to the cube, then refilled with books, boxes, whatever fit. Today, they were emptied at least enough to slide, walk, rotate, whatever maneuver it took to set them in a different place a few feet away. There are still odd-sized spaces in need of items. There are odd-sized items in need of boxes.

There are three large, sturdy, awkward boxes that need to be placed in the cube and then filled (one person job), or filled in the house and brought into the cube (with help). Plus an armchair, the home office desk and chair, file cabinet, random chairs, and some other things. 

There was a known casualty today. I was placing a box containing a soup tureen, tray, and ladle, plus a Pyrex baking dish with a lid that used to be Mummu’s. As I stood on a chair in the cube and raised the box to place it, it slipped, grazed the scar on my wrist (ow!) and landed on the floor. It was cushioned a bit by a bag of soft items on the floor but when I picked it up again, there was some rattling. It was taken back into the house and opened. Better to check out the situation now instead of getting surprised and sliced during unpacking. The lid was shattered into a gajillion shards.

Pieces of broken glass were removed and wrapped for the trash. And now I’ll be searching for a lid for my 1961 2.5-quart white Gourmet black leaf casserole dish. It’s fun to have quests. Today, life-size Tetris, a week from now, reverse Tetris and unpacking a million boxes, and in a couple weeks, the hunt for a Pyrex lid to replace the broken one.

Angel hair, veggies, pesto.

With 99% of the kitchen packed, preparing food has become interesting. Today’s freezer purge resulted in a supper of frozen Brussels sprouts and mixed vegetables with chopped salami ends and angel hair pasta tossed with a jar of pesto. It was delicious, and there was a ton of it, which ended up in the fridge still in the cooking pot because all the microwave and storage containers are packed. 

Saturday morning is blocked out for a dance break as Salaamati World Dance performs at Riverfest in Jafffrey, New Hampshire. According to Waze, it’s an hour and 21 minutes from The BungaLowell. As long as I remember to do the eye liner before too much coffee makes my hand shake, I’ll be all set.