Moving months

We’re moving Colin in with me! Well, actually he’s been moving in with me for a couple of months now. Well, actually, he’s been living at my house for quite a while, and we’re just in the past couple of months getting around to getting his Stuff over from the Badship (nickname for his house) to the Dinghy (nickname for my house) and making the Dinghy ours communally.

Here’s the plan:

• Move Colin to the Dinghy – check
• Help Alissa get her Stuff and move it up to her new life in Port Townsend – check
• Pack up Colin’s stuff from the Badship – almost all done
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• Pack up Owen’s tools and other stuff and find a new home for it – mostly done
• Take loads and loads and unbelievable loads of stuff to Goodwill – mostly done
• Take loads and loads of stuff to the dump – still in progress
• Clean up the Badship and get it ready to sell – hella work, still in progress, but starting to look nice
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• Unpack Colin into the Dinghy, so we’re both home! – still got a bunch to do here
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Whew! Every weekend, and some of the week, we work on work on bullet points above. Every day there is still more to do.

This weekend so far, we cleared out a room behind the outside of the house and took a load to hazardous. I always like going to the hazardous waste center. There’s something just a little off and wonderful about the people that work there. They’re dealing with all of the stuff that people accumulate that is just too dangerous to throw in the dump. They have to deal with mystery jars that say “cashews”, and have a bunch of residue in the bottom that might be cashew juice, but might just as well be paint thinner. They have to be scientists and risk-takers, and they have to wear practically full-body armor in all weather.

We also went to Home Depot and picked out some carpet for most of the house and linoleum for the kicthen. The inside of the house is almost done being painted, and it’s starting to look really nice.

Tomorrow, we start in on the back yard. By putting ads on Craigslist and a sign out on the street, we’ve gotten people to come and take most of the wood left over from the approximately 6 trees that the city cut down from Colin’s back yard. There are still a bunch of huge rounds of Cottonwood back there, and we’ve got to stack them or something. We’ve gotta get rid of a shed of junk, weed whack, and I’m not sure what else. Somehow make it not look like a jungle.

Well, that’s just a small taste of what I’m up to these days. My brain is full of the list of things to be done and things we have still to do, but I’ll spare you all that :).