Adventures were had today.
Initially I told Doug he was off the hook for coming to the house with me, but he decided to come. I'm incredibly glad he did. I wouldn't have been able to do all of the things that needed done to the depth that they needed done. He took on the basement, I finished the refrigerator. R and I had taken it apart, and she cleaned the entire inside. I left all the shelves sit on the counter saying I'd take care of them today. Which I did. And it took much longer than I thought it would. Then, the stove, the counters, the sweeping of the entire main floor. I didn't mop. I should have but I did not.
The freezer got cleaned out but, I didn't clean it with cleaner - it still being in freezer mode, stuff didn't want to come off when I tried to clean. So I left a note. Best if cleaned when defrosted and stuff.
I had posted our queen-sized bed frame on nextdoor and someone came by to look at it yesterday. It wasn't going to fit in his car, so he was going to measure another vehicle. I didn't hear back from him.
But. Another guy had posted on my posting for the free bedframe that he does yard cleanup and trash hauling, and he would be happy to take it to goodwill or another county outfit that accepts furniture. Since I'd heard from the other guy first, I gave him right of first refusal, and when he didn't get back to me, I reached out to WA.
He agreed to come by this afternoon, and he asked me for pictures of what I needed taken away. We had about 20 bags of trash and 3 trash barrels, two of which did not stand up on their own. One did. So take away all the trash, the 2 dead barrels, and hey, can you take away the tree trimmings and yard stuff? Oh. And we have a giant flat screen TV and a giant console TV. If you could take those to the transfer station, we'll pay that fee.
He came over as promised, looked over what we needed, and quoted me $350 for everything (about 50 of that was fees for the recycling of the TVs). Hell yes. Thank you.
Before I knew it, everything except the tree related stuff was in his truck. Even the console TV which probably weighed over 80lbs.
"Did you take the TV to the truck by yourself?" I asked
"No," he answered and then did the flexy arm muscle thing with his right arm. "This guy," and then the left "and this guy. They did all the hard work."
"Aaaaaaah! Your good friends Pancho and Lefty saved the day!"
He laughed and said "From now on, I'll call them that!" We had a great laugh.
He's coming back tomorrow to get all the yard stuff, and I threw him an extra twenty bucks to take the cardboard recycling. The county does not like it when you overload the cardboard recycling containers or leave the cardboard next to the container. So I didn't want that to be a problem. I sent him a picture and he said he'd happily take it all and send me a picture when done.
I thanked him for reaching out on the bed frame post. Initially I didn't think we needed hauling help but yeah, we did. And I'd recommend him 15/10 to anyone in the area.
I don't have a good machine for vacuuming the stairs, so I recently bought a doohickey from Uproot Clean to rake the wall to wall carpeting on the stairs in hopes it would help. Then it sat in a box in my bedroom because I sometimes forget I impulse buy stuff I see on Instagram. Happily, I pulled it aside to save for this task.
Man alive is that thing outrageously good. I may get the big rake for all the carpeting in the new house! Not normally impressed with shit, but hey. I'm impressed
The stairs were brushed and groomed, and the giant pile of dog hair and ...whatever else came up was in the trash, I then got to vacuum the downstairs.
It is all wall to wall carpeting, and, because Doug's office was down there, the vacuum only ever went down there once in four years. I'm absolutely ashamed to say that. But. It got vacuumed. I vacuumed the absolute living hell out of it.
Geoff's room, the storage room, the entire basement - done. perfect. Amazing.
As we put the remaining things that were still in the house into the car (plants, some kitchen shit, blah blah blah stuff from the basement and somehow MORE OF GEOFF'S SHIT! How he didn't get all of it the other day, or, how we didn't make sure the movers packed his stuff and didn't overlook pieces is beyond me. But. It all fit in the car.
Somehow. By miracles.
We stopped at Dairy Queen to grab something for dinner. Part of me just wanted to go home but there is nothing really to eat here. So. Chicken strip basket and coke zero. No ice cream or shake, as much as that sounded perfect.
Toffee was out of dog food, and Geoff was worried about driving the mini to the store because it's been throwing the check engine light. He fed her doggie treats for dinner. We stopped into a grocery store that was open for 5 more minutes. I ran in, grabbed a small bag, and made it out fast.
And I should have grabbed toilet paper. Well. I'll send Geoff first thing in the morning.
Home. For real, home. No more Montgomery county. I don't have to drive up and down, or down and up, I should say, I-270 again until I really want to.
No picture. Just know I'm showered, tired, and going to bed and wondering how I'm going to consistently hit 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.. thousand steps every day like I have since Saturday last week. Damn. Moving will do it to your step counter, I'll tell you that!
Digits below.
digits
exercise: 12/12 hours. Measured 15 min exercise (vacuuming!) for .4 miles. 13k+ steps by bedtime
blood glucose:
9am: 110
xpm: x
11pm: 125
food & meds:
9am: jardiance+phentermine
11:30am: zero sugar yogurt+granola bars
beers while cleaning
3pm: met+glip
8pm: Dairy Queen chicken strips w/buffalo dip, a few fries, and weirdly... garlic toast slice (no ice cream!)
9:30pm: met+glip
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