Have you ever woke up and looked in the mirror and said OH GOD I look like one of those people from the "What Not to Wear" show.
We are staying at a camping site, and it's been pouring rain so my hair is frizzed up, my gray hairs are sticking straight out and I'm still in my warm pajamas. I'm sitting in an internet cafe typing this on my 18" laptop with my blackberry sitting next to me. I'm sure people are looking at me like I'm a homeless person that ripped off the right car. Or on the show were the boss dresses down and goes undercover but still keeps his cool car, watch and gadgets.
So last I left you it was April and I had a month to get out of my foreclosed home. My oldest son had just left for Texas and I was a stressed out mess. SOOO much has happened since then.
The first week of May our family friends from Alaska came down to help me pack up and move stuff to storage. Yvonne and Gary, Yvonne is my moms friend from high school, she has been like an Aunt or a God Mother to me my whole life. Her son Gary who is six years older than me, I didn't really know, we had never had any conversations and I hadn't seen him since I was 7 years old. I picked them up at the airport and showed them the house. They were overwhelmed by the amount of stuff we had (not hoarder status) but enough. I took Yvonne to my Mom's house and Gary and I got started. We cleared a room out and started stacking furniture in it from the up stairs. We said that he wouldn't help me pack cause I needed to deal with the stuff but that he would move the furniture. He has really big muscles so it was fun to watch him move stuff ; ).
We moved most of the furniture from the house to storage. Bunk beds, bed frame, dresser, 2 desks, book shelfs, night stand, fridge, microwave, washer drier, credenza and hutch, conference table and chairs, reception desk, roll top desk, entertainment center, 14 boxes of Tupperware, and the rest was stuff I had to pack. As soon as we were done moving to storage Yvonne and Gary went back to Alaska. I packed boxes one by one but we did leave 75% of it there. Anything we wouldn't cry over got left behind. I think that there is still stuff in storage that could go to goodwill. So we were out of the house my May 14th, we went to stay with my Mom but she is such a nag we couldn't take it. She would criticize the kids for EVERYTHING and then me, she didn't want the kids making noise, she was crazy about the TV, and the kitchen closed at 9pm. We left every chance we could get... TO BE CONTINUED.
