7 Days
I have so few days left now that I have a pretty good idea of what I’m going to be doing each day.
Monday: Buy groceries, I hope for the last time before moving. I was going to run a lot of errands today, but it’s rainy and cold, so I’m going to spend the rest of the day going through my storage space, throwing out everything I can part with (and finding the AC power cord for my boom box.)
Tuesday: Take a last tour of the area, photographing everything I don’t want to forget, particularly places that appear in my novel and screenplays. I’d be upset to have to rework these for a new setting, so I need to visit the Virginia Living Museum, Fort Monroe and Phoebus. I hope the weather is good for photos–overcast but not rainy.
Wednesday: This is my very last chance to get my filing done, to scan documents that I don’t want to file, shred others and in general get my paperwork under control. If I don’t, then I’ll have to move a box of unorganized stuff from the top of my desk and start my first week in Colorado trying to remember what it all is.
Thursday: I will spend most of the day NOT watching the parade or football, but watching the TV shows I have saved on my DVR while I get together the things I’m going to be taking with me in my truck so the movers won’t pack them. My plan is to get as much packed in the truck as possible and then go to Thanksgiving Dinner in town, followed by a movie.
Friday: The packers and movers come. I have a collection of canned soft drinks I’m hoping they will drink. I’m keeping out my folding chair and will (if weather permits) sit on my balcony to watch the movers without being in their way. Afterward I check into the Embassy Suites across the street.
Saturday: I will thoroughly clean my empty apartment so my landlord has no reason to hold back any of my deposit.
Sunday: I have firm plans to do nothing. Read, rest and nap. Maybe swim.
Monday: The carpet cleaners come at 9 a.m. I turn in my keys about 10 a.m. I will be on the road by noon and will be having dinner in West Virginia.
I have no food for thought to offer today because I’m going to be too busy going through my kitchen cabinets, trying to figure out what I need to cook to use up the half box of rotini, the 3 carrots left in the bin. . . .
Two weeks from now I’ll be watching movers again.
