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Operation: Emptying the Box Thing Begins
Mar. 10th, 2019 10:42 pm9:59pm: Yes, indeed. Yesterday Mum had to go over to the apartment in Newtown because the currend tenants are leaving at the end of the month so new ones need to be found.
Originally, she hadn't asked me to come along, but then she phoned me up to ask something else and I mentioned I probably should come along because I need to start clearing out the Box Thing over there, especially if I'm going to have one put in here. Mum thought this was a great idea, partly since having some company on the drive over would be nice. :OP
Plus the material to make covers for my new couch finally arrived at Fantastic Furniture so we were able to pick that up to on the way.
The good thing about having Saturdays off these days is getting to the city is waaay easier, peak hour traffic on the weekdays can make life difficult, but we made good time.
While Mum was off dealing with the apartment - apparently the current tenants are not the neatest...in fact they're even worse than I used to be before I got into the apartment here! Which if I'm honest with you is like...one step down from hoarder. I didn't see it for myself, but it sure was awkward when the two prospective tenants showed up to take a look...pretty sure neither of them will decided to rent!
So, yes for the first time in about four years I finally opened the Box Thing (which seems to have lost its locks! Fortunately, it's so messy in there if anyone did decide to go in there they wouldn't be able to find anything to steal :OP) and tried to figure out where to start.
I mostly went over there to get my Sweet Valley books, I have the complete set of Sweet Valley High and most of Sweet Valley University as well as various books from the other series. And sometimes one just wants to kick back and read a trashy novel, so I wanted to bring them over here to the new place. Luckily they were pretty easy to find and I managed to clear out pretty much one side of the Box Thing doing so! I also found a box of old kitchen stuff and a Christmas tree (LOL). Mum has taken them away, she's not going to give the kitchen stuff away until the apartment gets rented because the kitchen there might need some restocking.
The Sweet Valleys were in four different small boxes and one plastic crate and aside from them I also took three other cardboard boxes and a case to sort through, which I did last night after I unpacked the Sweet Valleys (would you believe I fit them all in on three shelves of one of my storage wardrobes? Love those things!) Mum wants to put up the rest of the bookshelves, I'm not entirely sure if they'll fit on those since they're four deep on one of the storage wardrobe shelves right now.
After that I dived into the two big cardboard boxes, one was only half full of soft toys - which fit just find in the plastic crate and in the second one, there was mostly just junk - I kept some weird stuff!
In the small cardboard box were books that I don't read and don't want to keep - however, I'm not sure if they're suitable for most of the second hand charity shops, so I might just have to throw them into the recycling bin - which seems wrong, but what can you do?
Then I moved onto the case, which is like a giant pencil case, which I got waaaay back in 2001 (or possibly 2000) when I somehow ended up as part of the Model UN for like two days. I have no idea how this happened quite honestly - I think they were down a person and I volunteered and was the scribe - primarily because I had done no research and couldn't possibly have represented a country.
So yes, we got this big case with M.U.N.A on it and aside from the notes from the meeting, I'd also shoved all the Christmas cards and letters (ha ha remember those :OP) I'd got in there. Also, my Grandparents Christmas cards for some reason? (I think I liked the pictures on them? Some of them are very nice looking so I might scan them.)
The Christmas cards that were to me included ones from high school! Which I realised was almost 20 years ago, as well as letters from my first best friend from Dubbo, which are over 20 years old, and shiiit doesn't that just make a person feel old! I'm always a bit sad when I think of my first best friend - we exchanged letters for years after I left Dubbo and then one time she never replied and after sending another letter or two to her I gave up writing. I think I've mentioned before that many years later I ran into her, in an elevator at my university and I sort of hoped we'd get into contact again, but it never happened. I do wonder why she stopped writing...I guess she found more interesting things to do?
I also discovered two movie passes my Godmother gave me, unfortunately long since expired LOL. I don't see many movies, but I sure hope I didn't go and see some in 2009 because I could have got in for free!
So yes, it was quite the trip down memory lane, although this morning I was, for some reason, inexplicably sad and cried - I think maybe it was because one of the last cards I looked at before going to bed was one from a family friend known to us all as Uncle David - he and my Grandfather worked together in the Navy - he died many many years ago now, but the thing is, I wonder if I ever replied to the card (which was sent for my 21st birthday) and I have a terrible feeling I didn't. There's also cards from internet friends I've sort of lost touched with when I used to do online roleplaying - before my creativity decided to take a hike. Those people though I can probably get in touch with again though, so...not so sad.
There was even a few cards in there from my brother and his first wife - she's an artist - so that was weird too. And finally for some reason I had a whole bunch of Christmas cards my parents got from co-workers, which I think also made me sad because it's so long ago now...when I was in my 20s.
Obviously, I'm still a young person - 35, but despite no desire to have a relationship or kids or any of that jazz, it's more than a little weird to think that even my father - who married late - had two kids at my age. As for Mum, at my age her daughter (aka me) would have been...6 or 7? - it's pretty wild and weird.
So yes, I was feeling quite bummed this morning, although since then I've gone to work - which was madly busy and enough to banish any feelings of nostalgia - since let's not forget for most of those years in which I was looking back on I was either unemployed or working in a job I didn't want to be in at all.
Now though I'm working at the library, go me! :O) I actually have an update about that, but I have to head for bed, I didn't get all my zzzs yesterday so I'll have to report on that tomorrow. Let's hope I don't forget! ;O)
For now, goodnight!
Originally, she hadn't asked me to come along, but then she phoned me up to ask something else and I mentioned I probably should come along because I need to start clearing out the Box Thing over there, especially if I'm going to have one put in here. Mum thought this was a great idea, partly since having some company on the drive over would be nice. :OP
Plus the material to make covers for my new couch finally arrived at Fantastic Furniture so we were able to pick that up to on the way.
The good thing about having Saturdays off these days is getting to the city is waaay easier, peak hour traffic on the weekdays can make life difficult, but we made good time.
While Mum was off dealing with the apartment - apparently the current tenants are not the neatest...in fact they're even worse than I used to be before I got into the apartment here! Which if I'm honest with you is like...one step down from hoarder. I didn't see it for myself, but it sure was awkward when the two prospective tenants showed up to take a look...pretty sure neither of them will decided to rent!
So, yes for the first time in about four years I finally opened the Box Thing (which seems to have lost its locks! Fortunately, it's so messy in there if anyone did decide to go in there they wouldn't be able to find anything to steal :OP) and tried to figure out where to start.
I mostly went over there to get my Sweet Valley books, I have the complete set of Sweet Valley High and most of Sweet Valley University as well as various books from the other series. And sometimes one just wants to kick back and read a trashy novel, so I wanted to bring them over here to the new place. Luckily they were pretty easy to find and I managed to clear out pretty much one side of the Box Thing doing so! I also found a box of old kitchen stuff and a Christmas tree (LOL). Mum has taken them away, she's not going to give the kitchen stuff away until the apartment gets rented because the kitchen there might need some restocking.
The Sweet Valleys were in four different small boxes and one plastic crate and aside from them I also took three other cardboard boxes and a case to sort through, which I did last night after I unpacked the Sweet Valleys (would you believe I fit them all in on three shelves of one of my storage wardrobes? Love those things!) Mum wants to put up the rest of the bookshelves, I'm not entirely sure if they'll fit on those since they're four deep on one of the storage wardrobe shelves right now.
After that I dived into the two big cardboard boxes, one was only half full of soft toys - which fit just find in the plastic crate and in the second one, there was mostly just junk - I kept some weird stuff!
In the small cardboard box were books that I don't read and don't want to keep - however, I'm not sure if they're suitable for most of the second hand charity shops, so I might just have to throw them into the recycling bin - which seems wrong, but what can you do?
Then I moved onto the case, which is like a giant pencil case, which I got waaaay back in 2001 (or possibly 2000) when I somehow ended up as part of the Model UN for like two days. I have no idea how this happened quite honestly - I think they were down a person and I volunteered and was the scribe - primarily because I had done no research and couldn't possibly have represented a country.
So yes, we got this big case with M.U.N.A on it and aside from the notes from the meeting, I'd also shoved all the Christmas cards and letters (ha ha remember those :OP) I'd got in there. Also, my Grandparents Christmas cards for some reason? (I think I liked the pictures on them? Some of them are very nice looking so I might scan them.)
The Christmas cards that were to me included ones from high school! Which I realised was almost 20 years ago, as well as letters from my first best friend from Dubbo, which are over 20 years old, and shiiit doesn't that just make a person feel old! I'm always a bit sad when I think of my first best friend - we exchanged letters for years after I left Dubbo and then one time she never replied and after sending another letter or two to her I gave up writing. I think I've mentioned before that many years later I ran into her, in an elevator at my university and I sort of hoped we'd get into contact again, but it never happened. I do wonder why she stopped writing...I guess she found more interesting things to do?
I also discovered two movie passes my Godmother gave me, unfortunately long since expired LOL. I don't see many movies, but I sure hope I didn't go and see some in 2009 because I could have got in for free!
So yes, it was quite the trip down memory lane, although this morning I was, for some reason, inexplicably sad and cried - I think maybe it was because one of the last cards I looked at before going to bed was one from a family friend known to us all as Uncle David - he and my Grandfather worked together in the Navy - he died many many years ago now, but the thing is, I wonder if I ever replied to the card (which was sent for my 21st birthday) and I have a terrible feeling I didn't. There's also cards from internet friends I've sort of lost touched with when I used to do online roleplaying - before my creativity decided to take a hike. Those people though I can probably get in touch with again though, so...not so sad.
There was even a few cards in there from my brother and his first wife - she's an artist - so that was weird too. And finally for some reason I had a whole bunch of Christmas cards my parents got from co-workers, which I think also made me sad because it's so long ago now...when I was in my 20s.
Obviously, I'm still a young person - 35, but despite no desire to have a relationship or kids or any of that jazz, it's more than a little weird to think that even my father - who married late - had two kids at my age. As for Mum, at my age her daughter (aka me) would have been...6 or 7? - it's pretty wild and weird.
So yes, I was feeling quite bummed this morning, although since then I've gone to work - which was madly busy and enough to banish any feelings of nostalgia - since let's not forget for most of those years in which I was looking back on I was either unemployed or working in a job I didn't want to be in at all.
Now though I'm working at the library, go me! :O) I actually have an update about that, but I have to head for bed, I didn't get all my zzzs yesterday so I'll have to report on that tomorrow. Let's hope I don't forget! ;O)
For now, goodnight!
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