Starting the Day EDIT

EDIT: I found my cell phone!  I went into the bedroom to make the bed and right in the middle of doing this, I glanced over to the box on my bedside table where I keep Ipod cords, the card reader I attach to the laptop and various sundries of this kind. I thought, "That looks like…." and it was! I have NO recollection of putting it there!
Fred made a FANTASTIC potato salad yesterday. It was slightly spicy with lots of crunchy things in it just the way I like it and I ate two plates full! So, today it is time to eat lightly to balance that out. Fortunately we have a watermelon!
I really hate this being in Limbo feeling. We know we are going to move but we don’t know the date. We know where we are going to move to but we can’t get started on it because Mike and Melanie have to move out first!I still have not found my cell phone. And it suddenly occurred to me it would do no good to call it {even if I knew the number} because I keep it turned off anyway!  So, you may wonder, why do I even HAVE one if i keep it turned off and no one {including me} knows what the number is? Well, I got it when Fred had surgery and a heart attack a few years ago. I was desperate to get out of the house occasionally for a walk and so got this so he could call me if anything happened while I was out. So, you may ask, doesn’t Fred have the number? Well, he did. I wrote it on a card which used to be on his desk. but he recently started cleaning that off and so, no card! Well, I am doing my best to put it out of my mind and hope it will turn up. And if it doesn’t, well, I will cancel the service because I seldom use it anyway…Yesterday was hot and horribly humid. I spent a lot of the day in the air-conditioned bedroom. Which reminds me that another good thing about moving downstairs is that Mike redid the wiring so they could have air conditioning when Melanie got pregnant and Gretta was born. So, when they move, and when we move, we can have air conditioning for days like yesterday. Actually, I think Fred is going to make Mike an offer for the air conditioners he had in already which will save us having to buy more. {Hmmm, I must remind Fred he said he was going to do that before Mike starts taking them out of the windows…}
Positive things about moving downstairs:

• I will have an art room! {dances around ecstatically!}
• We plan eventually to also put a couch/bed/futon in that room too so that we can have overnight visitors.
• The only stairs are two shallow ones off the deck.
• There is a porch which will be great storage space. In fact, a lot of our "stuff" will go in there, we have decided, until we find a permanent place for it.
• Only one flight of steps to the basement when laundry is being done
• There is also a dedicated line in the basement for a freezer. I don’t know if Brice {new owner} is going to use it but if not, we might. I would like a freezer.
• It will be SO much easier to bring groceries home–no lugging them upstairs!
• There is a dishwasher. {Actually, this is not a big thing for me. I really quite like doing dishes but there is no doubt a dishwasher gets the dishes cleaner than I do! }
• We get to stay in the same area and with the same very nice neighbors. This also means I can still walk to the library and the drug store and we are still within reasonable driving distance of the supermarket, and the doctor’s office.
• Mike, Melanie and at least one neighbor have offered to help us move.
• Oh, and have I mentioned I will have an art room???

Negative things about moving downstairs:

• The rent almost doubles {cringes and runs away screaming}
• Moving is a hassle. But, since Brice as the new owner wants to live in our apartment, we would have to move anyway.
• I don’t know how complicated it will be to get the computers set up downstairs and the network operational again. {Actually, I am hoping I can get Mike to do this for us}
• I HATE moving utilities. I have NEVER had it go easily!  We have the cable, the phone and the gas and electricity…oh, and the mail, but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem since it is only from one mailbox to the one next door.

Ok, time to drink coffee, play a game of Bookworm and start my day by taking a walk. It is cool and sunny this morning so far…

Until later….