a brief update…

A brief update before I go racing off to catch the train to Cobh. I came out to Athy at about 9pm last night and spent an hour and a half getting the downstairs as straightened up for the movers as I could, ie, getting rid of scraps of paper, moving things that weren’t going with us somewhere else, doing laundry and dishes, that kind of exciting thing. I got up at 6:10 this morning to do the same thing to the upstairs from about 7 to 8:30, when the…

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bam bam bam bam bam

We’ve scheduled the movers for tomorrow, so I’m up in Dublin doing laundry right now (I left all my clothes here when Ted broke his arm) and when that’s done I’m going down to Athy to do as much housecleaning as I can, and to, um. Well. Wait for the movers to come in the morning. They’ve just called to ask if it’s okay if they come at half eight instead of nine, which is, y’know, fine, so maybe if I’m lucky I’ll get out of Athy tomorrow afternoon and…

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:/

Well, Ted’s been laid off from his job. It’s hard to blame them, since you can’t really cook or cut things up when your right wrist is broken and you’re right-handed, but what a pain. They said to come back when he’s healed up and they’ll be glad to hire him back again if they’ve got a position for him, so we’ll see. Either that or he’ll just get to job hunt again. Um. That’s about the sum total of excitement that I know about right now. It looks like…

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