Manic Monday

Rested, refreshed and recharged after our weekend away, we hit the ground running this morning. We are in serious multi-tasking mode around here! 

Lots of things got done today. I mean, lots! 

We have two "big things" left in the house that belong to us: a sleeper sofa sectional and an upright freezer. We found a buyer for the former, put the latter on Craigslist and have one interested party for that. Our biggest concern about the sectional was getting it out of our upstairs loft. We have vague memories of delivery people struggling to wedge each piece up several flights of stairs. This is one of those things that has haunted us. We had hopes that our buyer would take it, but she's not interested. So, today Boris and I mustered our collective strength and geometry skills and successfully got the thing down to ground level. Yahoo!!

The person who bought our monster workstation is coming back tonight to pick up the remaining two pieces. So, with just one day of usable workspace left, I went to work on a bunch of tasks that required that required use of this big flat surface. I destroyed dozens of floppy disks. (I can't remember when I last actually used a floppy disk!) And, I started the process of erasing files from our desktop, which we'll give to charity on Thursday. That's a very time consuming task. The eraser application overwrites each file 35 times!

While the hard drive was humming, I ran a handful of clothes that will go into storage to the cleaners. (You don't want to store dirty clothes!) While I was out, I picked up Bullwinkle's quilt from the longarm quilter, brought it home, pulled out the sewing machine and sewed on the binding. I'll finish the job by hand, but I wanted to take advantage of this great workspace one last time. 

With the clock ticking, right now I am attempting to reinstall the operating system on our PC laptop. The operative word there is "attempting". No success yet. But, I'm hoping I can restore this thing to something that will at least be useful for surfing. If not, I'll erase the files on it and throw it in with the desktop. 

Boris was very busy today facilitating address changes, terminating utilities, faxing real estate paperwork, scheduling "de-staging" and our trip to the title company to sign documents for closing. The best news is I think he's found someone to buy our old bug. And, if that doesn't work out, it sounds like he might have a backup plan. 

After the rest of this workstation makes its way out the door tonight, I know two people who will definitely be ready to put their feet up!