10:47 PM
Observatorium Days

Spent a chunk of the day with my mom, figuring out what needed to come out of storage and out of their garage apartment so they can (finally!) move back into their house this weekend. It started off in typical family fashion (B=my brother, M=my mom):

10:55 am.

(ring,ring)
B: Are you on your way to pick me up?

Me: No, mom hasn't called yet to say she's on her way and there's no point in sitting at the storage place in the heat. I'll call as soon as I hear from her.

B: Okay but I have to be done by 2pm!

11:05 am.

(ring,ring)
M: (croaky voice) Can we postpone an hour?

Me: Well that would be fine with me but B has already called to see if I'm on my way and he says he has to be done by 2pm...

M: Okay (sigh) I'm leaving now.

(Mom always likes to procrastinate on her days off and sleep in and I never mind because I just do stuff on the computer instead.)

I pick up B and go over to the storage place. We get there, no Mom, I call her on her cell phone...

11:30 am.

(ring,ring)

Me: Hey did you remember to bring the storage locker keys?

M: Well, yes but they're in my purse and I forgot my purse which I just realized so I'm on my way back to the house to get it and then I'll be over there.

So B and I go get gas and stop at a cafe so I can get OJ and we meet Mom back at the storage place at....

12:00 pm.

Moral of the story: If we'd just said okay, we'll wait an hour, she would have remembered her purse and we'd have been there at the same time but with less hassle. :)

Now I've got to get with the cable guy to get the cable/network jacks in so that we can get their cable and net access turned on soon! And set up the movers for next Friday so my stepdad can at least move back over there and my mom will probably move back the next Friday. Stepdad is having hip surgery in three weeks (the day after Father's day!) and we have to get the basics done so that he can live fairly comfortably there. But the construction guy still has to seal the stone floors in the kitchen and downstairs bath before they can use the kitchen - which looks absolutely beautiful! It was nice before (they'd renovated the kitchen about five years ago) but now it's even better, really wonderful stone floors with inlaid deep blue tiles and a SubZero fridge (only fridge, no freezer, they have in the laundry room) with a wooden door cover to match their cabinets and ohmigawd, a leather, real leather! padded handle! yowza! Plus a hidden pantry room and a huge laundry room with the old fridge/freezer and washer/dryer and workbench for stepdad plus cupboards and counter space next to the washer/dryer. And the spiral staircase looks great plus the incredibly heavy light fixture above which is this Frank Lloyd Wright thing that looks great up there!