I am not making it UP

Everything is smaller now. I have checked and boxes I have bought to pack in, the newspaper I get everyday, the jars of food stuffs I buy, the towels, the everything I buy is smaller. Costs a little more and it is smaller so it costs a lot more, really. Wardrobes used to be 24 inches wide, now they are 18 inches, even the book boxes are 1 inch smaller....my books should fit but now they need to be packed differently. The newspaper is smaller with fewer pages so I use up a few days worth in minutes. I am out of paper, so I have stopped packing for now, the Sunday paper should be enough to finish. I know these things because I have moved across country many times, I have packed these same items for years, decades. The one thing that is not smaller are dinner plates. I was packing the few left from my mother with the few new ones I bought and the new ones are as big as her "chop" plate....a serving platter for pork or lamb chops. Dinner plates as big as a serving platter! I am not hard on my clothes and i have bought from the same company for decades and I have the same size top from 10 years ago and a new one from last fall...the new one needed to be 2 sizes bigger than the old one (and the old one is not stretched out....and I have not gotten fatter but lost weight...) I look at the measurements in a new catalog and have an old catalog in my mother's box of magazines I just brought from her house and have just gotten the emotional energy to go through and guess what!? The sizes measurements have been changed! There is a 3 inch difference between the size X of ten years ago and the size X of today! My hand cream used to be 6 ounces now it is 4.5 ounces. And the old one is just from 2010! No inflation? Cost of living is stable? Not on your tin type! If you think you are going through anything faster than you once did it is not you....It is the Big Corporations making a bigger profit with out telling anyone they have raised the prices. They made the package smaller not raised the price! Logic like a child, no? Logic of the greedy bastards. Many of you will not notice but since I have time I notice and that is why I go all granny on the world! By the way it is interesting to think that most of the "nice" glasses I have came with nice beverages as holiday sets. I have lived like a refugee since 2006 and I look forward to a stove, my real pots and pans, flatware and china....ooooh and cloth napkins, too. 6 years is a long time to live with hand me downs and goodwill finds. 13 days to go.

No yet set in stone but close

Attention: here is the first draft of the Itinerary. Day one Texarkana, Ark, 448 miles. Day 2, to Nashville Tenn. Day 3 489 miles, Roanoke, VA 438. Day 4 Scranton, PA 411 miles. day 5 Lowell, MA 300 miles. Day 6 Milbridge, Maine, 272 miles. This is with good weather and good health(cats and me) So we are getting close. I still have some packing to do. But I am feeling loads better as compared to this time last week. We will be a convoy the Toyota Carolla in the lead( me) and the Ford F-150 following. This should be an adventure.

Room at the Inn?

I am trying to get a route map and places to stay that will accept pets. It is not like we will even spend 24 hours at any place. I always leave the place cleaner anyway. What I HATE is not getting a straight answer from anyone. We are not going on vacation. I would never drive 2500 miles for vacation I hate the roads and hassle. We are driving because we are moving and we have cars and pets. How else are we suppose to get to the new house with the cars and pets? Is there a train to park the cars on and a stateroom and a nice kennel car for the pets? NO! Why because no one here in the USA cares about people and their need to travel in safety. We have crappy public transportation because the Auto makers wanted to sell cars. I have no idea why the trains are so neglected....like poor relations at a rich mans table. We are staying in any place for more than a night since we do need to arrive at our destination before the moving van filled with our stuff gets there. Is no ones else moving? Does anyone really move across country anymore? I guess not. I will blog from each stop and let you know how awful the day was or how well it went.

Whatever minus 3 days

I am getting better. I packed a box today and cleaned out 2 cupboards. I am still coughing but not as bad or deep. Today was sunny after old 10am... at new 11am.... I do not like this messing with the time. It is like putting the scale up 5 pounds and looking like you have lost weight. For idiots really who can't just keep summer hours and winter hours. Here it just means it is sunnier)therefore hotter) longer and getting to sleep is harder since the sun is in the window. Bleah! :-P The Toyota's rear seat is a waste to put down ....will not help with cat crates. Trying to find a positive side I did decide now we can pack the trunk with more things we will need like clothes and cat supplies. Everything feels harder to do. Yet there is really less to do. I guess since it is because we leave no one behind this time. Yes that again. It is weird to move and no one is left behind to miss or say good bye to. Mom's and Dad's ashes are packed.... first box I packed. Nothing remains of the babies that are buried in the back yard. The Birds and the Possum will miss me. The trees are showing a little spring but mostly showing how much they are dead from the heat and drought. Not going to miss the heat and drought. I was able to walk across the lawn and make dust last October and there were ground cracks over 3 feet deep( I only had a yard stick. Not going to miss the heat. I feel like saying oooooo brisk morning, I need a sweater......

Whatever

Still sick. I am in a deep blue hole of despair. The house is sold the movers are on their way and I can't breath with out coughing. I can think of six people I know that I'd rather be sick then me. Yeah I am that type...bring it on my worst enemy, if not them there is no enemy.  I am enjoying my new song. One good thing. Yesterday the A/C was on today the damn heater is back on and I am sweating no matter if I am cold or too hot. Yeah virus, yeah doctors who stop the idea of universal health care because they do not want to be tied to the kind of salaries in Canada...They only get $150,000 a year and they do not pay for their office staff and stuff. I never made that kind of money if you add up my three best years .

T MINUS WHATEVER

Today we closed on the house. The futz factor price was well worth it. I am less sick. But still wheezing hacking, coughing. The weather is warmish and thick with the promise of rain that will be broken. It is a familiar pattern. A few sullen drops from the heavy clouds above but then they move east and the sun heats up the evening and the night is uncomfortable. Not the best weather for a bad clogged cough. I have a new favorite song. http://home.earthlink.net/~gholibaz/     I posted the link to my website I have had it for years no one reads it but the song is there.

I have no idea if this works  but the group is Canadian. This country produces a lot of talent.
I am not packing for 3 days now. And I am not worried as I should be because I know there is not much really.

T MINUS 24 DAYS

No that is not a mistake. I am sick enough to delay the move as long as we could. Either that or drop dead. The moving company is being very nice... Orion/Verizon...lines. They had a good review and so far they were not the cheapest nor the most expensive. They had the least complaints. I feel like crap my whole body hurts from coughing. I am one step from pneumonia but if I try hard I will keep that step back! It is so hard to lie in bed and look at all that needs to be done. Much of the time I am thinking how to pack stuff with out ......the thought are leaving the brain and the coughing is coming back...but this time it is less.......