Because I have tried in vain to write this post in a way which made sense and couldn't, instead here's a postcard, in the style of Post Secret .


 
26.11.06 19:44


Should I be sensing panic right now?

Teh move has been moved forward by about 3 weeks.

I have a mountain of boxes but no idea what I actually need to come with me to the flat.

I feel if I am not ruthless with deciding what I should leave behind I will need another couple of mountains of boxes. 

I have not packed a single item yet.

I have found more ways of procrastinating about this than I thought I would be capable.

 
28.11.06 18:57


77

Geofftech has asked me to pick a number. I have chosen 77. If you follow the link to his blog on the sidebar and listen to the podcast he will be posting tomorrow (well I think it's tomorrow, I get confused with time zones) then you'll find out which tune it corresponds to.

I have no idea what the tune is but it can't be as bad as this one, found on you tube while looking up tunes from my teenage years. This one would not have been to my taste, yet it was such a hit at the time I still know all the lyrics by heart and remember the metro shots of the video.

Anyway, this was packing avoidance tactic number one on my procrastinating list which goes a bit like this

  1. Randomly search videos of French 80's songs on You Tube. Liking the song or not is irrelevant to the search.
  2. Dig up a knitting UFO which has been untouched for months and somehow complete the neck band and top piece ready to start on the middle part.
  3. Spend ages playing with photoshop to try and rescue the way too dark shots from the Gomez gig in order to put them on flickr. Ah the time that can be wasted trying to decide how much noise I am willing to compromise on to add a little light.
  4. etc etc etc

I think I'll start tomorrow. It shouldn't take long. After all as Him Indoors reminded me today it's only "8 year's worth of accumulated junk minus a skip load".
29.11.06 23:10


Mr Trebus' spiritual daughter

After much threatening on the part of Him Indoors of reducing the packing workload by hiring a skip I have at last made a start on the packing. Admetedly I have only filled 2 boxes, but that's 2 more than yesterday. I have also managed to throw some of my hoardings.

I couldn't quite get myself to throw away the letters I have accumulated over the years, though the pile did stop growing when email became more widely available. I have trimmed them down though, birthday cards which just said happy birthday have been binned. The little notes accompanying cheques from my grandparents have resisted the cull.

Talking about hoarding and packing at work today a colleague was mocking her mother for keeping buttons from used garments. I owned up to cutting the buttons off shirts that are worn. Apparently not everybody does that (if you use them as rags you don't want the buttons to scratch things anyway, though I suspect not everybody does that either, or cutting out the still good bits if it is a particularly nice material to recyle them in a quilt at a later date).

"what's the point?" she said. "When you need the button you can't find it again anyway, or it doesn't match". "Of course I can find it" I replied, "I have a button box. It was my grandmother's, so I have inherited her buttons as well". Apparently, not everybody has a button box either. And it's easy to find what you are looking for if every so often you remember to rethread them by colour and size. The look on their faces told me that for sure, not everybody does it.

I guess next I should make a start on packing the needlecraft supplies and various UFOs.
30.11.06 21:52


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