<p>Moved more stuff - not too much left but what is left is heavy.</p>
<p>I started taking the big table apart. I managed to get one table leg off. The legs are square and made of 3/16 inch steel. I think that I may be able to take the desk in my car. The top is 2 ft x 5 ft and I think that it should fit in the back seat. It’s a monster of a table that cost me $20 a long time ago. I have three of them.</p>
<p>The top is your typical formica desktop bonded onto a layer of corrugated steel. There is a four-inch steel hem going around the desk with a ton of bolts that go into the bottom of the desktop. Then the legs are bolted into the hem with a steel bracket.</p>
<p>I can take the four hem pieces and legs off and that should make the desktop much lighter. I’m pretty sure that I can carry the thing down a flight of stairs and out to my car. I just need to verify that it will fit. So that means that I can do everything in the car except for the mattress and boxspring - my current plans are U-Haul but I will recheck rental places for an SUV or Van as an alternative. I checked with ZipCar which would have been a nice alternative but they require a membership.</p>
<p>Another day. Another load. Took a bunch of assorted big stuff – boxed lamps, boxed computer, golf clubs, yadda yadda, so it wasn’t that bad. No dumbbells today.</p>
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<p>I’m beat. I just can’t believe how tiring this is. It doesn’t seem like it, but by the time I get back in the evening, I’m toast.</p>
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<p>Now I know why I didn’t start New Rules of Lifting for Life. I had a sneaking suspicion that workouts would be tough during the move. Looks like I’ll be starting that program in the new version of the world’s best gym.</p>
<p>No. Cleared my schedule. Vacation time. I’m not that crazy!</p>
<p>I’ve been packing/organizing/loading in the morning. Then, leaving between 2 and 4 pm. Depending on how much time I spend at the new place or running errands, I’ve been getting back between 6 and 8 pm.</p>
<p>I am super organized after a year of moving stuff around for fix it projects (carpet, paint, etc.) and clearing out stuff. I’ve got a big supply of plastic bins and have managed to filter a lot of odds and ends into these – like one for batteries, rechargers, and flashlights. One for iPods, cell phone, remote controls. I got used to living out of those bins as we had painters and tile guys and carpet guys chasing me from room to room for while. I moved a bunch of those bins today. I’m really pleased with how much I’ve been able to consolidate.</p>
<p>I got a lot done this week. It’s actually going very smoothly. I may skip the round trip tomorrow and just focus on sorting and packing.</p>
<p>2 hour semi-strenous hike on a gorgeous day in Sound of Music-type environment – wildflowers everywhere. No food tracking today, because the new Daily Plate iPhone App update does not work :(</p>
<p>I’m in Florida for a long weekend. Ran 8 miles this morning in high humidity but nice flatness. Felt decent for 7 and the last mike was a struggle. Planted my butt on the beach for much of the rest of the day.</p>
<p>^^Awesome job. I’d love to plant my butt on a beach somewhere… I just returned from a long trip and am really tired… But I ran 3.5 miles last night.</p>
<p>Didn’t do anything today. I basically felt very tired and lethargic and a bit shaky. I think this is due to allergies - it feels like when I take antihistamines. I was invited for outdoors doubles tomorrow so that should make for a decent workout.</p>
<p>I’m out mowing the lawn this morning, probably the last time ever on my 20 year old Snapper riding mower, when I see my wife coming back from her water aerobics or Zumba class. Only instead of driving, she’s walking… Uh, oh…</p>
<p>So I turn off the mower and listen to her sad story about having lost her keys (or locked them in the trunk or whatever) at TJ MAXX. She got a ride to the interstate exit and walked the 1. 3 miles from there. Now, she needs my car to drive into Boston where her spare key is at her office. So much for a productive day packing/moving/cleaning. OK, we (I mean, I) load up my car with patio furniture bungied in the truck and off she goes.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I hop back on the mower and the electric starter strips a gear. So the very last time I’m ever using the mower and the damn thing won’t start. If I had only kept mowing, I would have been done in 15 minutes. Arrggghh… I borrowed the neighbors walk-behind mower and at least finished the lawn.</p>
<p>Then, she comes back down the road, having returned to TJ MAXX to give it one more shot, where her keys have been turned into lost and found. So, it’s move everything bungied to my car to her car.</p>
<p>Idad: Since BC asked first, I am curious about how you decided not to buy after selling your house. H and I have been in a discussion for years, really, about what we should do with our house, especially once D graduates from college. The house is too big for just the two of us and neither of us especially likes the yard work; we moved here for the neighborhood when D was 4. I think we should sell and rent a townhouse or even an apartment, until we decide whether either of us is ever going to retire. H just thinks owning is better than renting, period.</p>
<p>I just checked in and didn’t realize this wellness thread was going to be about moving. I have a presentation to do on Tuesday, which I have been working on for a few weeks and then it is major moving and selling for me. I have already sold many things but more to go and I have 50 days left. The more I sell the happier I am and less that the movers will have to crate and ship to the port of Baltimore and then parts unknown. I don’t know why I didn’t do this some time ago; I have way too much stuff. But it is work-exercise! It is definitely health and wellness related. Anyway heave-ho!</p>
<p>Hah, people pay big bucks to top trainers to make them do farmers carries – picking up and carrying heavy weights. But, moving and/or clearing out accumlated junk gives you the same workout and it’s free! Dan Johns recommends heavy carries as a major part of a good workout… maybe even as the ONLY exercise!</p>
<p>I know one thing, all of the deadlifts and squats have made me so much better at lifting stuff up off the floor without bending over and killing my back. years and years of hearing “lift with your leg” and I really know what the heck that meant or how to do it. The back guy Stu McGill says that most people don’t blow their back out lifting really heavy stuff, but rather just casually bending over to tie a shoe or pick up something really light - because they aren’t properly braced. I’ve noticed that a couple years of picking up heavy stuff had ingrained lifting properly to the point where it it is my natural approach to picking up a box or almost anything.</p>
<p>I’ve been worn out and sore all over from all the loading and unloading of the car and carrying stuff up and down stairs, but (knock on wood) not even a twinge of back discomfort.</p>