Monday, May 8, 2006
We had such a busy weekend I had to come to work to get some rest!
I remembered this morning a funny thing I forgot to report about Saturday. We have sheet music that was my grandmother’s, that was published in the early 1920’s. Then we have books and sheet music I bought when I was taking piano lessons. I have a book of pop songs from the 70’s that includes a photo of Michael Jackson before he had all the surgery. I took it into the family room and showed Al
Yesterday it was pouring rain so we skipped church and got some more cleaning out done – this time it was books. We went through every book in the built-in bookcase in the family room and took out all the old novels and books of Dad’s that we don’t need to keep. We ended up carting 5 big boxes of books to Goodwill! There will likely be at least three more boxes when we get the bookcases upstairs cleaned out.
It was so funny when we went to the Goodwill place in back of Northlake Mall, because I was thinking there is no way I can unload those boxes; I am just exhausted. When we got there, all we saw was one black guy with a cell phone to his ear and he seemed totally uninterested in helping us. I told Al Al
We still have boxes in the garage, and I dread going out there, but I am determined we will get that thing cleaned out and organized in the next few weeks. I am determined to get Matthew’s room fixed up, too, in the near future. I am going to trade dressers in there and take out one of the bookcases. I think we can get it looking like a boy room without too much hassle. My new preoccupation is mentally rearranging the furniture upstairs.
