Surfacing

[ellid]

My furniture is largely in storage, which means that my living room and dining room are the barest they've been since the awful day I came home from work and found that my ex had walked out and taken the living room suite with him. Oddly enough, this time it's actually sort of cool seeing the rooms bare. The contractors are starting work on Monday, with painting first and then new flooring by the end of the week. I still have to pack up two bins of stuff in the kitchen, but it's nothing major.

Trivia:

- 90% of my SCA wardrobe was in my Pennsic tub, and is now in Sapphy's back seat since I had to reuse the tub to pack books. Very strange.

- I now know what it felt like to be a Collyer brother, since there's only a tiny path through my bedroom to the bath.

- The cats are massively freaked out, not that this is a surprise.

Comments

[tena524.livejournal.com]

Ah, but this time, the empty living room is a sign of good things to come!

An aside, one of Alan's GE buddies is well on his way to Collyer-hood (is that a word?). The one time I was in his house (about 15 years back), the piles were between knee- and waist-high, and the back yard piles (old radiators, at least three old franklin stoves, car parts, elderly refrigerators, etc) was well over 6 feet, with barely shoulder-wide pathways.

He told us last summer that he and another friend had started hauling out the backyard stash and selling off the metal - for the first time in over 20 years. His town started doing curbside recycling a couple of years ago, so he decided to get a couple of extra bins and work on getting the old newspapers out. He's still at it. Alan has been there more recently, and says the piles are lower now, and you can actually see most of the furniture.

[tree_and_leaf]

that my ex had walked out and taken the living room suite with him


... what? I mean, who on earth takes the living room suite when they walk out?


Anyway, I'm glad the living room is a positive sign, this time round.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, the furniture he took had belonged to one of his relatives and had been given to us out of the estate. What I objected to (and still do) was the complete lack of warning that he was planning to leave.

[tree_and_leaf]

Ah, I see. Crachingly inconsiderate, but not as bizarre as it sounded...

[tena524.livejournal.com]

Believe you me, it looked pretty damn bizarre. Took the furniture, left the rabbit poop in the other bedroom, and a bloody awful mess elsewhere in the house.

And while it is theoretically possible to leave in an even more hurtful manner, it's difficult to think of a more cowardly one.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Dear God, I'd forgotten about the rabbit poop....

*shudders*

[tena524.livejournal.com]

I am never, ever-in-this-lifetime, getting a rabbit.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Agreed.