Colowyo - grudgingly settling in :P

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From doing the rv thing, we pack mostly in plastic totes and label the tops--writing on masking tape. That way I can change them at will.

 

[colowyo0809]

Colowyo,

Don't know if this will help with organizing while moving, but I have found (through a gazillion moves) that labeling every box really helps. The more time I have, the more detailed my scribbles are (LR- CD's/movies/misc), at the very least, I mark what room I will want them in, in the new house. Plus I not only mark the top, I mark at least one side.

Oh yeah. We've already done this with the books and the cd's. We are doing this the most smartest way we can. We've gone through stuff, donated stuff, given stuff away. I've got a box started of dishes we don't need that another family can use I'm planning every step of this move and it's going to be the smoothest move in existence or someone will die for it

 

[abifae]

i said that about my last two... and they were. no issues at all. Woot! May this next go as well!

 

[colowyo0809]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions

I think in the last 30 years I've lived in roughly 25 different living dwellings - houses, trailers, apartments, fourplexes, etc. I've finally learned that the best way to pack is to give myself plenty of time and do it well

 

[colowyo0809]

So, we had an interesting day yesterday!
First we headed to Ikea, which is located in the South Denver area. I've been told that Ikea is the be all end all of shopping excitement, so I went with my SO. It was definitely something else There was more people there than at a "everything 1/2 off sale" at walmart! It was kind of interesting, especially since in various areas they had little display homes set up, where you could see small sqft type homes on display. Considering alot of European homes are actually small sqft homes, this was kind of interesting. Some of their kitchen set ups were pretty awesome, and gave me some good ideas for our future house. We walked away with a couple solid bookcases that are easy to take apart and put together, we are not taking them out of their boxes until we get to kansas and, we'll be taping the instructions and the little tool that comes with to the backside of the cases so we know how to take them apart when we move again and put them back together in the new place, whenever we have to move again. We also bought some bpa free plastic food storage containers because we needed new ones and I want everything in our container cupboard to be uniform Takes up less space this way. However, we took my car, and when we got the shelves to the car we discovered that I had to move the passenger seat a ways forward so the boxes would fit. That was cramped riding!
After Ikea we went to BD's mongolian grill for lunch. We went because it will probably be the last time we make it there for several years, and it's a special place for me/us. After that we came home to let the dogs out, grab the deviled eggs he made, and go to the store picnic. It started out as a store picnic, and ended up as a going away party for him and the assistant manager, who is leaving to be the manager at the Kansas store SO is transferring to. And people liked me! It was incredible! I never once felt uncomfortable, or like an outsider! People actually came up and made actual conversation, and not just because they felt sorry for me because I was an outsider or something! SO said people kept coming up to him and asking what I would be doing, what my plans were I told him that was only because they already knew what he was going to be doing It was a really fun time. And, we played tug of war, and the team I was on won twice (it was supposed to be best 2 out of 3, but when you win two in a row, there's really no point! ) so that was fun as well! And, we got to take extra food home! Score!

This morning I went and got the chickens from the processing facility. Stopped and got butter on my way home because we didn't have any, and now I have turkey in the roaster! I've had it thawing for several days, but I couldn't make it without butter to spread on top!

 

[abifae]

You drove by my house then!!! And didn't stop in! *sob*

lol.

We're right off the highway on your way to Ikea

 

[colowyo0809]

You drove by my house then!!! And didn't stop in! *sob*

lol.

We're right off the highway on your way to Ikea

well, I could have kidnapped you and made you deal with SO

 

[abifae]

LOL! You coulda stopped in and met the mighty Amira and Pudding

 

[colowyo0809]

My turkey was in the roaster at 325 like the bag said for roughly an hour and a half and it's already done? is this right? it said at least 3 3/4 hours on the bag, but the thingy has already popped so that means its done right? weird!

I am also making pickles. when they say pack they really mean PACK don't they?! in order to make the juice do what it was supposed to I had to FILL those jars full of slices! and some of my cukes were too fat so they will have to wait for next time! The direction on the mix said 14 small to medium cukes, but I only used 5. I didn't think they were all that large to be honest, but when I weighed myself on the scale holding them they were 3.5 pounds, so it must be ok? weird, again!

 

[SSDreamin]

Why would you worry that people at the picnic might not like you? I like you, and I've never even met you!

I like to slather the butter all over the turkey between the skin and the meat- crispy, golden skin and moist turkey - yum!