<p>Ya’ll are killin’ me. I having severe withdrawal from working out. This is like ten days, the longest I’ve gone in 2.5 years. Of course, before that I went 30 years. :)</p>
<p>The morning was spent with the local “junk removal specialist” again. We carried a crib and mattress down from the second floor (we had “staged” a bedroom with nursery stuff). And, lifted a Snapper riding lawn mover up into his pickup truck. That was after I had spent a couple of hours loading the car for the daily run.</p>
<p>Dropped by the lawyers office on the movign run to sign a bunch of papers so I don’t have to go to the closing. Looked like Jed Clampett parked out in front of Mr. Drysdale’s office I guess – although I still have not had to bungee cord anything to my car!</p>
<p>Here’s a tip. Buy stock in [url=<a href=“Sterilite Corporation”>Sterilite Corporation]Sterilite[/url</a>], because I’ve bought their entire annual production of plastic storage bins. It’s probably a guy thing, but I’ve organized just about everything I own into various size bins. I plan to leave as much of it as possible in the bins on closet shelves and under my bed in the new place.</p>
<p>Stopped by a WalMart SuperCenter on the way home and bought the microwave oven for the new place. Got the bachelor model: big enough for a tumbler to-go-cup size coffee or reheating a dinner plate. </p>
<p>It’s getting serious now. I just bleached and rinsed one of the cat litter boxes – new litter awaits at the new place. Of course moving the box is probably going to be a lot easier than rounding up the cats! Comcast appointment tomorrow and with movers on Friday, I’m thinking I’ll just move the computer tomorrow and be done with it.</p>
<p>3 miles, 8:48 pace. I can do laundry tonight or go run for a mile or lift. Looks like laundry. I’m still throwing stuff out and moving stuff around to try to make space at our basement which is very crowded. If I can clear enough space, I can do home weights.</p>
<p>I was thinking of looking for storage solutions for the basement. I have plastic containers but they’re not strong enough to stack over about two feet. Maybe a steel frame for a milk-crate effect.</p>
<p>Still thinking about WC’s run - 50 calories burned per minute. Unreal.</p>
<p>Gawd, I’m just sitting here finishing my chicken fajitas (seems like a weekly ritual – cook some chicken breasts, chicken caesar one night, chicken fajitas another night, love 'em both). My legs are just sore from top to bottom. I think it’s from all the stairs, loading and unloading.</p>
<p>The world’s best gym is completely moved (except for the Airex pad, the weight bench, and the chin up bar). It’s calling out to me in the new place. Maybe this weekend. We’ll see.</p>
<p>Next hurdle. Computer, TV, internet, high def cable, coffee maker, and bean grinder at the new place. Life’s essentials!</p>
Probably Friday night. My internet, my TV, and my bed will all be moved at that point, and the option here will be a sleeping bag on the floor as all the old sofas and mattress are gone already.
I will come back Saturday, move kitchen stuff and try to round up the cats.
I haven’t moved any food, so I’m gonna be a bad boy the next two days. I’ve been driving by my old favorite fried clam joint every night, so I’m going to have a treat tomorrow night with take out (minus the onion rings) – it’ll probably be a late night getting ready for the movers. Friday night might be country ham dinner at Cracker Barrel – maybe I can skip the hash brown casserole and go with green beans and corn or something! I’ll have to move the coffee maker on Friday, but I bought some ground coffee and have the old manual pour boiling water thru a Melita filter rig here for the final few days.
Things are coming together pretty well. I’m in good shape, I think. I hope so, because I’m crazy tired. Probably a day moving misc clothes and little odds and ends from closets. Probably a day moving the food and dishware and stuff – I’ve moved most of the pots and pans. Probably a day of sorting and clearing out the garage.
Okay, so peer pressure has kicked in, and although, fortunately I am not moving, y’all did motivate me to do some organizing. I have another out of town visitor coming to stay and a full house at the moment, so I am playing musical chairs with the guest rooms. In the process of rearranging, I decided to de-clutter, get rid of and pack away a bunch of stuff. Of course it now looks WAY worse than it did before, but I am making progress.
<p>I’m not moving either, but at work I have gone on a cleaning spree. I think we’re safe to throw out catalogs from 1993…</p>
<p>I did some yard work this afternoon. My dad and a neighbor cut some branches over the weekend and I had to finish cutting them up and hauling them off…</p>
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Short workout tonight… 5 minutes on the spinner bike. Gonna take some adjusting for my rear end!</p>
<p>I decided to buy some file cabinets. Will go to Staples tomorrow or Friday and get a pair of them and start moving papers from plastic organizers and paper moving boxes. I’ll need Pendaflex folders too. It should be far more space efficient for storing records and I can put stuff on top of the filing cabinets too. I think that three should be good for de-cluttering a chunk of the basement and then we’ll go from there. I think that the rearranging is going to take a few weeks but maybe only an hour a day - that should be little enough time so that I can get back to running and tennis.</p>
<p>Got the van, moved the mattress, box-spring and desktop and returned it. Things went relatively smoothly. The hard part was getting those big pieces down the stairs, across the street and into the van. What really helped was a perfectly sized on-street parking spot - it was about 1 3/4 cars long and I was able to get the van in with minimal effort. I brought my daughter along to open doors and push from the inside to take the stuff out of the van. We’ll see if I injured anything tomorrow. At the moment, I feel like I’m in good shape though a bit drained.</p>
<p>Couldn’t get a tennis court for this afternoon that would be long enough so I’m going to the office to work for the rest of the day - then I’ll clean the apartment (vacuum, clean counters, bathroom, shower, etc.) and we should be done with it. I’ll bring my running stuff to try and squeeze in three miles.</p>
I did my first NROL for life work out today. I enjoyed it. It’s a lot of the same as I already do, but I needed to add in some upper body & the metabolic things. I had to walk around the gym a bit to find something that I could do a pull exercise on. All those cable things are kind of intimidating. I also ran 2 miles, walked .2, ran 1 mile. I’m going to at least make a show of it at my 5k race.
<p>I bought a bunch of used office furniture from DEC in the 1990s - they were closing offices and moving the furniture to storage and they let employees buy stuff at really cheap prices. When we set up a new place, we start with chairs, a stool and some kind of table.</p>
<p>Son is sleeping on an air mattress right now in Boston. We need to find something more permanent but cleaning out the old apartment had a higher priority.</p>
<p>My scottevest arrived today. This is what I will use this summer for walking around in Boston (and just about everywhere else).</p>
<p>3 miles, 9:11 pace. This afternoon I took apart a computer desk, tossed it and replaced it with one of the desks from the old apartment. We now have enough room in the basement to vacuum the boxspring and mattress that I drove from the apartment. I want to set up the bed in one of the bedrooms as my wife likes that old bed (it’s quite firm and I bought it in my early 20s when I moved from my mother’s house). I’d like to assemble the big desk too but I don’t think that I’ll have time to do that. So the apartment is empty but I still have stuff to do involving moving furniture around. Tomorrow is tennis day with the better player (regular guy is out with an injury). I hope that I’m up to it.</p>
<p>I gained about three pounds over missed exercise during moving and dropped one after picking up running again and watching the calories more closely. You can definitely eat more calories running six miles a day.</p>
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