Weekend Plans Post: Saying Goodbye

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  1. Reformed Republican says:

    With this last move, there was a lot of purging of stuff that had been held onto for sentimental reasons. However, despite keeping it for sentimental reasons, the only time I had looked at any of it was when I was packing to move and deciding whether or not to keep it. I got rid of a lot of it. There were very mixed feelings about it, but I’ll probably forget what I got rid of or that it ever existed.

    Tuesday was my wife’s birthday, so we’re going out to dinner this weekend to celebrate.

    Saturday we have a vet appointment for our older cat, just a checkup. I am also past due for a haircut, so hopefully I can fit that on the schedule.

    Not too sure what else we are doing this weekend. There is a pretty good list of stuff to do, so it’s just a matter of selecting what gets done. We’re also getting ready to tackle the job of painting the house in the next few weeks, so we’re probably going to pick out some colors and get the supplies we need.Report

  2. Fish says:

    I actually have a VCR!

    I cleaned out my closet a couple of weeks ago and found a DVD my drum instructor had loaned me a couple of years ago. He had since moved out of state but I still had his number, so I got the joy of contacting him and reuniting him with his DVD. But more importantly, I found my juggling balls, which I now have at work to occupy my mind/hands while I’m waiting for things to happen!Report

  3. Michael Cain says:

    I have a box of bad compact VHS tapes from when our kids were little. For years I had a VCR, on the off chance that I would find the interest and time to rip the tapes to digital. Now, if I wanted the conversion done, I’d find a place that has all the nifty hardware/software to deal with VHS jitter and color problems, and pay them to dump everything to digital files.

    It’s unlikely that I’ll ever bother. As the kids have gotten older, they aren’t interested in more than old still images.Report

    • On a somewhat related note, one of my uncles became the unofficial historian of the tiny (now defunct) Iowa town where he, my mom, and their sisters grew up. He died a few years back and my aunt sent his source materials to my sister. When she came to visit in March, she brought all of them from Omaha and dumped them on me. Down in the corner of the basement I have eight large plastic containers full of old pictures, documents, and notes.Report

  4. fillyjonk says:

    I am also doing cleaning and pitching. I finally found a general contractor and will rapidly empty my savings account into his pocket as I get the roof and siding replaced, and some interior repairs done (including replacing some damaged drywall on the low sloping ceiling in my sewing room)

    I have already taken multiple boxes of books to the library for their fall used-book sale (though one of the librarians who accepted them said a few might go into their circulation collection) and have another large box I could take. I’ve been filling my wheelie bin totally full every week (usually there are only 1-2 bags of kitchen and bathroom trash in there). I found a shocking amount of fabric and yarn I purchased through the years. That’s partly good and partly bad. I found a vest’s worth of yarn that I love and can’t believe got buried. But I also have to find out if there’s anywhere local accepting donations of unwanted quilting fabric because I really do have more than I will ever use. (I mailed some yarn to knitting friends but postage is incredibly awful – in one case I sent it as a pure gift to someone who was having an absolutely miserable week but in the other two cases the people offered to pay postage and I took them up on it)

    Tomorrow morning I’m going to try to do more brush removal from around the foundation; I signed a contract yesterday for him to start on the roof as soon as a team and supplies can be assembled, and I know it will be easier for his guys to work if they don’t have to bushwhack through the truly repulsive amount of wild grapevine and so-called honeyvine (It smells like BO, not like honey) and blackberry that’s come in while I was too busy to keep up with it. I’ve got the south side of the house and most of the west side done, and some on the north side. I’m trying to match where I work to the time of day – so this morning I worked on the west side; yesterday evening I worked on the east side. I would like it all to be done by next week (when they might come) but I doubt that can happen; in this heat I’m good for at most an hour and a half of work before I have to quit.

    I also am going to take a quilt top in to be quilted (yes, maybe money I shouldn’t be spending, but it wont’ be much more than $100) and ask the quilt shop owner if she knows a place accepting donations of fabric.Report

  5. Oscar Gordon says:

    Sunday we are flying to LA and spending 4 days at Disneyland (I do love military discounts at Disney!)Report

  6. Kolohe says:

    Oh, she was once your classmate? She also won the first American Big Brother celebrity season. (something CBS put together to counter the Winter Olympics that year, and got good enough ratings that they have kept doing it). She’s, like, legit famous, imo.Report

    • Jaybird in reply to Kolohe says:

      She was!

      She and I weren’t close. If someone asked “Do you remember Jaybird?”, she would either say “no, not particularly, sorry!” or, being a total professional, would say “Of course! He played a counselor in my 8th Grade play!”

      But, like, she wouldn’t say “oh, yeah, he and I hung out”.

      Because we didn’t.Report