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thelaughingmuse) wrote2025-01-10 10:18 am
thelaughingmuse) wrote2025-01-10 10:18 am
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End of the week progress report
I got two more boxes emptied (not just consolidated), and found my masks. During Covid, I bought several larger-size N95 masks...like, 4 dozen of them. The ones I actually used, I would use for a day, leave sit in a sealed plastic container for a week, then reuse. (Hey, if they claimed that was good enough for nursing staff, it would be plenty good for someone who lived with no other humans and didn't go out much.) I had a lot still in their wrappers when I moved down to Mexico. Well, I finally found them! Just in time too, with this year's nastiest flu strain making waves in China. (Yes, it's a seasonal illness like a strain of flu, it isn't another COVID.)
Since I had fewer boxes on the floor downstairs, I moved the furniture. The dining table is now where it will live, and one of the Poang chairs is very near its future home. I still have a big-ass box to get out of the middle of the floor - new executive chair, unassembled of course - and once that's gone there are still a few smaller boxes blocking the way. I have a box of hangers that can safely go into storage. I can put some of my office supplies in storage. I can probably box up some of my clothes and send them into storage, especially most of the ones I usually hang up. (I'm using the office space for my really lightweight cotton-sousdi and rayon stuff which I could only really wear for 2-3 months up north, but can wear all BUT 2-3 months down here.) I really want to keep all of my decor here, especially my dragons. I also want to keep all my standard candles here, even if I don't actually burn them a lot.
I didn't lose much in the move, but what I wasn't allowed to bring, I really miss. I had two brooms with dense bristles and metal handles. I'd had one of them since college, and the other one of them for 12 years. I couldn't bring any "cleaning supplies" but hoped that the brooms would get a bye. They made it onto the moving truck - loose - but didn't make it into my rental house in Mexico. The stores around here all seem to only have brooms with plastic handles. The one I have works fine for its intended purpose, but...it's the way it feels. It doesn't feel as substantial. It feels like I have to make more strokes to catch everything I can catch. I want my old brooms with their thicker handles, metal handles, and denser bristles. I am a child, whee whaw whine.
Since I had fewer boxes on the floor downstairs, I moved the furniture. The dining table is now where it will live, and one of the Poang chairs is very near its future home. I still have a big-ass box to get out of the middle of the floor - new executive chair, unassembled of course - and once that's gone there are still a few smaller boxes blocking the way. I have a box of hangers that can safely go into storage. I can put some of my office supplies in storage. I can probably box up some of my clothes and send them into storage, especially most of the ones I usually hang up. (I'm using the office space for my really lightweight cotton-sousdi and rayon stuff which I could only really wear for 2-3 months up north, but can wear all BUT 2-3 months down here.) I really want to keep all of my decor here, especially my dragons. I also want to keep all my standard candles here, even if I don't actually burn them a lot.
I didn't lose much in the move, but what I wasn't allowed to bring, I really miss. I had two brooms with dense bristles and metal handles. I'd had one of them since college, and the other one of them for 12 years. I couldn't bring any "cleaning supplies" but hoped that the brooms would get a bye. They made it onto the moving truck - loose - but didn't make it into my rental house in Mexico. The stores around here all seem to only have brooms with plastic handles. The one I have works fine for its intended purpose, but...it's the way it feels. It doesn't feel as substantial. It feels like I have to make more strokes to catch everything I can catch. I want my old brooms with their thicker handles, metal handles, and denser bristles. I am a child, whee whaw whine.