Packing

It looks very much like I will have today off from work. I was on call because I had no appointments booked and here I sit. I decided that I was going to try to be very productive if I did indeed end up having today off. I did do a bit of laundry and put gas in my car and ran a document over to the mortgage broker. I decided that when Jay went out to take some pictures that I would go down to our locker in the garage and get a few of our many liquor store boxes and start packing up some more stuff.

The closet in our laundry room has been on my mind lately. It is where we keep our cleaning supplies, miscellaneous tools, extra paper towel rolls, extra boxes of ziplock bags, etc. I got up on a chair and pulled everything down out of the top two shelves. There were a few things up there that I sure didn't know we had and a few things I didn't have the first clue what they were. As I started looking, I decided that this might be a job better done when Jay was around to let me know what could be tossed and what should be kept. I am the type of person who doesn't have a lot of trouble purging old stuff. And to an extent I think that's a good thing, but I would hate to through out something important that I didn't realize was important. Then again if I didn't realize it was in our closet in the last two and a half years since I have lived here, how important can it really be?? Anyway, so I tried to organize what I could and so there are about five piles of different stuff in the laundry room right now waiting for Jay to get home and go through it with me.

Then I turned my attention towards the kitchen. We have a lot of things stored in the upper cupboards in our kitchen since Jay can't reach them. I pulled out a few things from one cupboard and found a box of extra speakers for our stereo in the living room. Then I remembered that Jay had said we should put away the two surround sound speakers that we had set up in the living room so I attempted that. When Jay moved in, his dad ran the speaker wire under the carpet and under the heat register along the wall. I managed to get the wire pulled out up to the garden door, but then his dad actually pulled up the carpet put the wire underneath and then stapled it back down. I can't seem to pull the wire through or lift the carpet enough to get it out (plus I don't think we have a staple gun to staple it back down if I pulled it up). Not sure what Jay will suggest for that. Maybe we'll have to cut it.

Then I got to thinking about packing and I had a few questions about what needed to be packed in a box and what could be left out for the movers. So I called our movers and found out that lamps do need to be put in a box as do stereos, however fans can be left as is. So I really need some bigger boxes to pack lamps and stereos in (please let me know if you have some you could give me!). Or maybe we could move a couple of things ourselves on Sunday or Monday because there are some things the movers refuse to move (ie propane tanks, household cleaners, etc). So basically right now this condo is in a bit of a mess....but hopefully Jay will be home soon and we can sort it out :) I can't believe our possession date is only a week away!!! I am getting quite excited!