New Stuff, New Responsibilites

Man we worked our tushies off this weekend. We went over to Mom's to get the new bed and hang out with them on their last day here. We ended up working almost non-stop for 4 hours. Mom kept asking me, "Would someone buy this?" I don't think the woman has been to a yard sale in her life. She was asking me that about picture frames and candles and all sorts of other stuff. I even fished out an inexpensive clear oval frame that she'd thrown in the trash. I said, "Mom, someone will buy that for a dime." While I was there I decided to look for something to replace our old cheap particle board TV stand that's here in the computer room. I bought this thing in 1995. It's the sort of thing that comes in a big flat box and you put it together. I remember it took My Sweetie and me what seemed like forever to put it together. We had just moved in together (I first just typed "into gether" and it made me laugh, I don't know why) and were in a hurry to fill up our great big rent house, so we weren't being too picky. Actually it wasn't that bad for 1995. As you can see, the bottom drawers went all askew over time. (I took this after I cleaned all the stuff out.)
I found this dresser type thing in one of Mom's guest rooms and I knew it was perfect. It's smaller than that other thing but actually has more storage, AND the TV is 13 inches higher which is great because it is in front of my treadmill and I never could see the bottom of the screen without leaning over the "dashboard" or whatever it's called. (That's part of the treadmill in the first picture.)

We took the three doors off the old stand and added it to the other random things in the cat room. They seem to like it. Maxie, the inherited cat, sleeps in that little round thing (the opening is around back to give him a sense of privacy.) As you can see, Lilly likes it.

Well, we did all of this on Saturday. Today, we took apart our old bed and assembled the new bed. I LOVE it. It is very tall. We used two box springs along with the new mattress, so the sleeping surface is 34 inches above the floor. That's a king-sized bedspread on a queen bed!

And below is the mirror that matches the bed. As I mentioned before, my parents just decided to sell the house. They were originally coming here to meet with their accountant to do my stepdad's business taxes for the last time, and then when things went a little off about the arrangement with my daughter living there, they decided to sell. I don't know why they didn't take their time here, but Stepdad just had to get back. And they are retired. So, Saturday was very hectic as they were leaving Sunday morning. Every 15 minutes one of them would call me from another room and say things like, "This is where all of the appliance manuals are." or "Here are extra copies of all the house keys." I thought a lot of it was funny because I am going to be the one doing the estate sale and emptying the house. I mean, I will find everything. I'm even going to be doing all the dealing with the realtor. I have a lot of it organized in my head, but my daughter is moving out the day I go to Vancouver (the 1st of June) and I will be there until the 6th and then I will be in North Carolina from the 14th until the 21st. Because the house has a pool, we want to get it on the market as soon as possible, but realistically I think it will be the second week of July. I hope to have the estate sale on the 28th and 29th of June. That gives me one week between vacations and one week after my second vacation. I will be very busy for a while it seems. I think in July I'll probably need another vacation.