Republican Candidate #17

Whew.  I was ambitious yesterday.  I got up and headed out pretty early in the morning with the intention of preparing my old house for the carpet cleaning it will have today.  That meant I had to clear every single thing off the floors in the front bedroom, the living room, the dining room and the master bedroom.  I had already accomplished a quarter of that before the day started, but that didn't mean I finished fast or anything.

I did get it all cleared away, though.  Everything is pretty much boxed or bagged.  I had a multi-box system going.  I had one box for the trash, one for recycling, one for future charity donations and one or more for actual packing.  In my dining room, I had a kitchen box, a bedroom box and an office box because I had used the room as a staging area after the table went in the garage sale.  Everything was in there.

I was a perpetual motion machine until I decided to break for gourmet lunch.

After that fancy meal, I was back to work.  Nobody had answered the ad I posted on Craigslist about my washer and dryer, either, so I was starting to worry,  They had been in the living room, which had to be furniture-free for the cleaning.  By four in the afternoon, I decided to drive off and handle it later.

The office at my old house was full.

Cas and I decided that it would be smart to play trivia last night.  We needed one normal thing in our lives that didn't involve moving appliances or rolls of shipping tape.  I went to new home, showered, drove back to old home, moved the washer and dryer back to the laundry closet place and went to trivia.  

We got Laura and Jerone to come out and play, and our team was called Republican Candidate #17, since we're pretty sure there are already 16 declared candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. We tied for first place with another team of rather surly individuals.  They had pretty much been glowering at us all night.  We were having fun- celebrating when we were right about stuff and cursing our luck when we were wrong- they were quietly sitting at the next table over, watching us.  It was creepy.  

I didn't even know we were in a race for first with these jokers until much later on.  I just thought they looked rather unpleasant.  

The tiebreaker round was just for us and the other team, and there were five questions.  We got two of them; the grumpy people got three.  Laura turned around and said how much fun we'd had and how exciting it was to have a tight race like that.  The girl on the team (with a hideous nose ring right in the middle of her nose that reminded me of the bull in those old Bugs Bunny cartoons) didn't really respond to that sentiment.  She only stopped to gloat that she got the Elizabeth Cady Stanton question because her name is Elizabeth.  I guess I'd call them sore winners.  They seemed really aggravated that we had the nerve to also know things.  Whatever.  We're an awesome team.  

Cas and I look pretty good, especially since we both spent the day trying to get out of our old homes and into our new one.