My book club book for this month is going swimmingly. Last month, you might say I dropped the ball. Or, to continue the metaphor, I drowned or got snub-nosed by a shark or got a side ache. After I swore, aloud and publicly, in this blog and to anyone who would listen, that I […]
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Every Book (Except the Crappy Ones) in Its Place
I’m in Week Four of our move, the highlight of which is putting books on shelves. It’s a good day to be Diane when you get to spend all Friday and most of Saturday putting away books. Don’t laugh. It could be worse. I could be putting away tools in the garage or trying […]
Not Bittersweet, Just Plain Bitter
This kind of how I was feeling today. Except I was holding my mammograms. I think I may have experienced my Moving Low Point today. God, at least I hope it was my low point. Because I made a fool out of myself in the radiology department of the Lexington Clinic and I’m hoping […]
The Big Purge of 2008
Moving Day T-Minus 10. The purge continues. Project Alpha – Successfully talked nephew and his friend into taking two couches, three chairs, two table desks, office furniture, a sentimental-albeit-ugly rocker and three bags of toddler play clothes and onesies on the condition that they also take a box of half-filled vodka bottles. Project Beta – Had […]
Houses That Fantasies Are Made Of
My husband, Bobby Sherman, and I plan to fix this place up I’m getting a little weary of looking at houses. Normally this is my favorite part of moving. You get to walk through people’s houses, look through all their stuff and not get arrested. It’s cool how the law works that way. Not […]
What I Refuse to Move
“Moving is good, because you’re forced to get rid of a lot of stuff that’s been building up over the years.” This is what people are telling me. They say this after they see me walking to the curb on garbage day, sobbing, carrying bags of perfectly good, cool stuff, and dragging the Barbie […]