Weekend Plans Post: Never Do Anything Nice For Anybody
Remember how we had a houseguest last year? Well, this year, we did NOT have a houseguest. This is normally fairly an uninteresting thing to note. Most people don’t have houseguests most of the time. We, however, did not have a specific houseguest.
And I was so delighted that we did not have this specific houseguest that I told her that if she needed help moving, come graduation, that I would help move her as gratitude for her not being a houseguest.
Well, graduation came and that was, indeed, something that I said way back then so we did the logistics dance. Drive to the U-Haul place after work before they close. Stand in line behind 4 people. Rent the van. Drive the van home. Pick up Maribou from work in the van. Drive to the U-Haul place and pick up the car. Drive to the kid’s apartment and drop off the van. Go home. Go to work. Go the kid’s house and get in the van with Maribou (who walked there after work). Drive van to Pueblo. Empty van. Drive van to kid’s house and drop off Maribou to pick up the car. Drive to U-Haul place. Drop off the van. Have Maribou show up with the car. Drive car home.
Don’t get me wrong: this was SO much better than having a houseguest that I can’t believe it. But my fuel is spent and I need to spend this weekend doing very, very little indeed.
Of course, that includes the usual litany of chores and errands but there are an additional two things that need to get done this weekend:
- Set up the air conditioning unit. It snowed last week. This week, it’s hitting the 70’s. According to the weather sites, it’s going to go back to being cold and rainy soon so, maybe, I can get away with putting this off.
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Remember how I said that I was going to swap out the winter and summer clothes a couple of weeks ago? Well, I didn’t. All I did was swap out the flannel sheets for the linen sheets. It’s time to swap out the long sleeve thick weave shirts for the more light and airy long sleeve ones as well as a handful of business-appropriate short-sleeve shirts.
And then brace myself for the rage that follows S8:E6 and hope for the best.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Moving on…” by Lawrence OP. Used under a creative commons license.)
Gonna go visit the old town and spend the entire weekend fretting over whether it would be weird to drive past our old house and go to the door and ask if we can go inside and look around.
Actually I’m pretty sure it would definitely be weird but the real debate is whether we’d be too embarrassed to do it anyway.Report
Drive past it. What they’ve done with the place doesn’t matter on the inside. They’ll have put the couch in the wrong spot and the television in someplace that doesn’t even make sense and they’ll have put the silverware in the wrong drawer. That’s fine.
Just drive past and see that they dug up your roses. Even though your roses were good and would have survived with little more than watering, pruning, some fertilizer sticks from time to time, and a Styrofoam dome for the winter.Report
Oh man, I remember moving here. My parents helped me. My dad driving a U-Haul with what furniture I had acquired (bedframe, mattress and box spring, sofa, a few chairs, a small desk) and my clothes and some other stuff, my mom and I following in their minivan with the stuff of mine that might not do as well in a non-climate-controlled truck (it was July).
My in-town move was facilitated by colleagues; I moved most of the small stuff myself over a period of days but the big stuff a bunch of them helped with (one had a pickup, and also there was lots of muscle to lift the heavy stuff). I paid them in barbecue and beer….
If I were moving again I’d hire people. (And hire a second, specialist, company for my Steinway; I wouldn’t trust a nearly-100-year-old piano to just some rando with a truck). I hope I don’t have to move again, at least not at this point.
This weekend is going to be spent relaxing and getting ready for some travel (going to visit family) next week. I had thought of going antiquing but they’re making noises on the news about 3″-4″ of rain so I’m thinking maybe not, after all.Report
Two things I’ve learned about moving:
1) hiring people is always more expensive than you expect
2) no matter how much it costs it’s worth itReport
Yeah, totally worth it. Two of our last three moves were based around my wife’s job/career and the Universities paid moving expenses. Holy cow was it awesome!Report
This weekend I will be taking it relatively easy. I have a final to take. We might try to make it to the museum to see the Van Gogh exhibit. Other than that, there is not too much.
After this begins the flurry of activity as we prepare to move to Tennessee at the beginning of June. I accepted a job offer, and I will be leaving the job that I have had for over 15 years. It’s exciting, but trying to prepare for a move while working and keeping up with classes is a bit daunting. Fortunately, my wife got laid off a couple weeks ago, and she is able to handle a lot of the logistics. And fortunately, having so much to take care of is helping keep her mind off of the fact that she was laid off.
And yes, we are hiring people to handle the packing and moving. The company paid for movers when I relocated to Texas, and I will never again do it myself.Report
That sounds like it sucks except for the absolutely awesome timing.
Good luck!Report
The illustrating picture seems to be of an order of Catholic monks dedicated to pest control.Report
It’s a moving van.Report
So its’ an order of Catholic monks dedicated to moving.Report
I imagine a vow of poverty allows for a smaller moving van that accommodates more monks.Report
It’s Victoria Day long weekend, so yay long weekend!
Mr T’s cousin is visiting for a couple of days, which everyone on the house but me had remembered apparently. He’s going to help us figure out some renovations that have been on the back burner for a year and a half, since the arrival of child the younger (bit of a busman’s holiday for him). Having him as a guest for child the elder’s birthday dinner last night was lovely.
I’m thinking of taking the kids to the new museum, which I’ve not visited yet, and currently has the largest traveling collection of Viking artifacts.Report
Real quiet up here. The Wife just took a major promotion and has been busy doing that job, plus her old job until that is backfilled. So, she will be resting tomorrow but on Sunday is going to a pig butchering class. I, on the other hand, am dancing between the raindrops to get some needed outside maintenance, such as the rear door banister.
It’s nice to be half retired.Report
Someone I went to college with died this week. He was also in the same major/department. He was a maybe a bit too older and apparently a real character that everyone loved. The problem is that I have really no memory of him. His name and nicknames sound familiar. His look/face do not. This is a very odd feeling.Report
That sucks. Was he in any of your shows with you? Maybe you remember him mostly in costume or something.Report
That sucks Saul.Report
I’m sorry to hear that.Report
“going to a pig butchering class” or as I call it, Therapy.
On the road right now from Wash to Bosh for Daughter’s college Graduation. I’d wax poetic about growing old…but we have 5 more to go and youngest is only 4…so not old, just tired.Report
Taiwan just became the first nation in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.Report
No politics.
But there is now a reason for Western countries to take a side on the whole China/Taiwan thing if they didn’t have one before.
But no politics.Report
Lots of activity in the house this weekend and luckily, very little of it requires my direct involvement. Oldest boy has both of his gaming groups meeting at our place–one Saturday, one Sunday. They’re all pretty much self-sustaining so all we really have to do is provide snacks and goad the boy into cleaning up before and after. Saturday morning is the FA Cup final (Manchester City vs. Watford (boo)). Me and a friend are off to see John Wick III Saturday afternoon. Monday my favorite cousin and her husband arrive for a week-long stay so that will involve prepping the guest room a bit. And Steam tells me that Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is 25% off so maybe I’ll finally pull the trigger on that.Report
Yeah, I saw that too…
I understand it’s an X-Com clone…
Dang it… 25% off is a good number for genres that I really enjoy…Report
I will spend the weekend trying to come to terms with the untimely death of Grumpy Cat. She was only seven and died of a urinary tract infection.
How should I feel about it? She was so grumpy looking. Is she happier now? She won a Friskies lifetime achievement award before age two. How do you get one with life knowing you’ll never top that? Could that ennui contribute to grumpiness?
Her owner said she was making in the low six figures off her, and speculation on the total ranges anywhere from $1 million to $100 million. Surely a cat can’t make $100 million when so many other cats are struggling just to break even.Report