I learned earlier today that Eric was flying to Baltimore late tonight to attend his student's PhD defense. I realized that he would arrive home and discover that I had done very little to prepare for our move. I waded through five patients an hour at the West side hospital clinic where I am doing a locum, and then to my office for a few hours. Maya and I were invited out to dinner at the Benichous, which would have been lovely, but I felt obliged to return home and try to make some order out of our belongings.
I organized a pickup from the 'Purple Heart' charity next Thursday, and I committed to ten bags of clothes, bedding and shoes. When I went through my linens, I discovered that most of the pile of sheets and blankets were infested with some sort of insect. I looked online and learned that this is not unusual for unused clothing and that simply washing the materials and storing them in plastic was required. I wasn't sure I was ready to wash so much, so I moved on to my closet and started the process of deciding what to keep and what to give away. I ended up keeping almost everything, and was disappointed that I was not better at reducing the massive load of stuff that I have accumulated.
I moved on to Maya's clothes, which should be an easy task, because by the time we return from Ecuador, nothing will fit her. Unfortunately, when Tara was visiting, she left many of her old clothes for Maya, so the pile to keep is greater than ever, and for all that I am giving away, there is twice as much that Maya wishes to preserve.
And so I have a bag and a half for the charity, and much more than I imagined to store. I am trying to separate clothes for Ecuador from a pile for Baltimore visits, and keep another bag for skiing clothes/cold weather when we travel to Edmonton. The logistics are challenging.
The best part of this endeavor is that it APPEARS that I am accomplishing something, or at least I hope that is what Eric will think.....
I organized a pickup from the 'Purple Heart' charity next Thursday, and I committed to ten bags of clothes, bedding and shoes. When I went through my linens, I discovered that most of the pile of sheets and blankets were infested with some sort of insect. I looked online and learned that this is not unusual for unused clothing and that simply washing the materials and storing them in plastic was required. I wasn't sure I was ready to wash so much, so I moved on to my closet and started the process of deciding what to keep and what to give away. I ended up keeping almost everything, and was disappointed that I was not better at reducing the massive load of stuff that I have accumulated.
I moved on to Maya's clothes, which should be an easy task, because by the time we return from Ecuador, nothing will fit her. Unfortunately, when Tara was visiting, she left many of her old clothes for Maya, so the pile to keep is greater than ever, and for all that I am giving away, there is twice as much that Maya wishes to preserve.
And so I have a bag and a half for the charity, and much more than I imagined to store. I am trying to separate clothes for Ecuador from a pile for Baltimore visits, and keep another bag for skiing clothes/cold weather when we travel to Edmonton. The logistics are challenging.
The best part of this endeavor is that it APPEARS that I am accomplishing something, or at least I hope that is what Eric will think.....
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