...and one or two steps back!
Oh man
Oh man
This moving, is hard.
Stressful
My stomach was acting up a bit, so I was home today.
Great, a weekday to make phone calls.
AT&T...25 minutes later, speaking to someone in another country
(so some communication barriers)
...after going through EVERY step to turn my service off,
she tells me to "call back to turn it off".
After a tooth pulling, Who's on first? type dialog...
I finally get her to explain that they will shut it off the day you call.
Period.
So, I hung up to call back on the appropriate day.
Fun.
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The girl who made a plan with me on FB to buy my washer and dryer...
messaged me back to say that, NO she needs a stack unit after all.
The first girl never even replied after I answered her questions.
Really? My gosh, at $25 buck each, let's just get it done!
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Southern California Edison stopped their: Pick up your old, used
energy hog fridge and give you $50 bucks program "years ago" I was informed.
Okay then.
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Trying to sell a few pieces of antique furniture...
so far the two shops I've had conversations with have not emailed or called me back.
I have no idea where we stand on this.
These pieces need to go, yesterday!
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All things posted on FB have had zero luck.
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Place a few misc. items out front for FREE!
All went really quickly, except the infamous
GREEN CHAIR
This chair I've tried to get rid of several times before,
with no luck.
Today...the FREE sign worked!!!
45 minutes later it was gone!!!
I was SO EXCITED!
And then it was BACK!
Someone actually picked it up and brought it back!
Who does this?
My neighbor thought it was super funny.
Nice gal. Not.
I won't even go into that.
sigh
There is more, but I've even bored myself tonight.
Man, I'll be glad when this is done.
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So, now for something far nicer.
After years of work and procrastination and whatever,
I've finally finished and mailed the cloth to
Wendy and her Travel Show for Children!
YAY!!
The last thing I added was one of Jude's moons.
Can you see the dark rust spots leading to it?
They represent the highway from years back...
On my way home from my job North, my Big Commute.
after rounding a slight curve, at a slight rise in the hill...
I see the full moon ahead of me...
Blood red and I swear it was sitting
on the end of the highway, where it met the freeway.
The moon was low and huge and the most amazing color I've ever seen.
I actually gasped and cried
It was that truly awesome
I added a ring around the moon,
because I've seen some amazing one recently.
ONe just a couple of weeks back,
the biggest, furthest from the moon ring I've ever seen.
And also, because that sweet little lullaby,
"I will draw a ring around the moon..."
When my daughter was a toddler, her super nice and cool
Gymboree teacher would close the session with a small group experience
It involved a lit candle in the center of the circle
and he would play his guitar and sing a soft song.
Sometimes, he'd have us move to gather by the piano
where he would play and sing this song.
I'd hold my girl and sway gently back and forth to the music at the end of the night.
It seems like a lifetime ago, yet this song, this image of us together,
this feelings invoked by this simple ritual have lasted this lifetime.
I remember that girl.
Gifts for Wendy's kids or Wendy or...
May your days allow for moving past the crap and into the sweetness.
xo
Photographs by NAE ©2019
Photographs by NAE ©2019
