Sunday, July 31, 2005
Last post from downtown...
The loft is nearly empty. There are just a few cleaning supplies, the fish tank, and some odds and ends. One more carload will do it.
Friday and Saturday were hellish. Thank God Mark came up from Austin to help us at the last minute, after none of the movers we contacted returned our calls. We got all of the super heavy stuff yesterday. I think we nearly killed Mark; God knows that we were about to die ourselves. I couldn't sleep for a while last night because my body hurt so much.
Today would have been much better if I hadn't had an eye problem. I'm still not sure what's wrong, but I think it's a safe bet that I somehow scratched the hell out of my cornea. My eye hurts like a mother, and we can't seem to find anything in it that could be causing it. I flushed it out with saline, water, and eye drops - nothing. Sunlight really irritates it, and driving to and from the two apartments was agony. We also went to Eurway to get a new couch, and I sat in the truck with my head in my shirt while Victor bought it. Turns out we didn't need to take the rented truck over there after all; the couch we wanted is backordered until mid-August. We bought it anyway because today was the last day of their sale. When we returned the truck, I drove my car to the rental place (thirty minutes away at DFW airport) so that Victor would have a ride back. Tears were streaming out of my eye, and I looked like an idiot with sunglasses over my glasses. On the way back, we picked up an eye patch for me at CVS, and that helped a little. This afternoon, I've stayed out of the sun, cleaning the old place. We should be out of here in a couple of hours.
I didn't get a chance to get rid of my clunker car this weekend (yes, we are procrastinators), so I still have that worry looming over me.
The next three weeks or so we will not have any cable or internet. My old email, the iqmail one, will be out of commission. Anyone who needs me should either use my work email, my gmail (same as iqmail but with gmail.com instead)... or you can use the old-fashioned telephone. I'll update from work.
The loft is nearly empty. There are just a few cleaning supplies, the fish tank, and some odds and ends. One more carload will do it.
Friday and Saturday were hellish. Thank God Mark came up from Austin to help us at the last minute, after none of the movers we contacted returned our calls. We got all of the super heavy stuff yesterday. I think we nearly killed Mark; God knows that we were about to die ourselves. I couldn't sleep for a while last night because my body hurt so much.
Today would have been much better if I hadn't had an eye problem. I'm still not sure what's wrong, but I think it's a safe bet that I somehow scratched the hell out of my cornea. My eye hurts like a mother, and we can't seem to find anything in it that could be causing it. I flushed it out with saline, water, and eye drops - nothing. Sunlight really irritates it, and driving to and from the two apartments was agony. We also went to Eurway to get a new couch, and I sat in the truck with my head in my shirt while Victor bought it. Turns out we didn't need to take the rented truck over there after all; the couch we wanted is backordered until mid-August. We bought it anyway because today was the last day of their sale. When we returned the truck, I drove my car to the rental place (thirty minutes away at DFW airport) so that Victor would have a ride back. Tears were streaming out of my eye, and I looked like an idiot with sunglasses over my glasses. On the way back, we picked up an eye patch for me at CVS, and that helped a little. This afternoon, I've stayed out of the sun, cleaning the old place. We should be out of here in a couple of hours.
I didn't get a chance to get rid of my clunker car this weekend (yes, we are procrastinators), so I still have that worry looming over me.
The next three weeks or so we will not have any cable or internet. My old email, the iqmail one, will be out of commission. Anyone who needs me should either use my work email, my gmail (same as iqmail but with gmail.com instead)... or you can use the old-fashioned telephone. I'll update from work.
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