May 8, 2017

 I am exhausted. And I have a pretty big headache. I want to go to bed.

Today was a long day. I got up around 7:30AM, ironed my pants for the week, got ready, ate breakfast, and then went to pick up my sister (getting gas on the way) so we could head out.

The trip to our aunt's house was thankfully uneventful and we made good time getting there. When we arrived, our aunt was at a hair appointment so we sat and talked with our grandma for awhile. After our aunt arrived she popped lunch in the oven (Papa Murphy's) and we went down to the basement to get an overview of what we were dealing with in terms of the bookcases and books.

After lunch we went back down to the basement to start sorting through books and emptying shelves. That was a project that took several hours. Everyone else showed up around 2:30PM and that is when my brother and I started taking the bookcases upstairs as we were able to empty them. In the end I got eight bookcases, the pieces for a barrister bookcase, and eighty books. I'm a sucker for free books.

My brother and I loaded all the bookcases onto the trailer and he and my Dad got them secured into place. We stopped a couple times on the way home just to re-secure things and make sure nothing was moving. My sister and I loaded up my car with the barrister bookcase pieces and all the books we picked out. And then, a little after six o'clock, we headed home.

On the way home I got up to 37.2 miles per gallon, which seems pretty good to me. I can't remember the highest I've seen it but that has to be close. Also, we passed a car while in the right-hand lane, that was in the left-hand lane, coming toward us, on a divided highway. It was a little terrifying. They had to have been an idiot, which I'm thankful fore because they could have done some serious damage if they were doing it on purpose. The only way they could have gotten on that side of the road, without driving through the ditch, was by coming down an off ramp, ignoring the two Do Not Enter signs, and the fact that all the other signs were facing away from them. By the time we passed them they were quite far from that off ramp. It got the adrenaline flowing. My Dad had to make a stop so he was pretty far behind us and when we talked to him later he said he hadn't seen a car or an accident, but there was a cop in the general area sitting in the median with the lights going. That couldn't have been a coincidence.

When we got back to town I dropped my sister off so she could let her dogs out. When I got home I ate some pitas and hummus until my sister came over and then we started unloading my car. Not too long after that my Dad arrived with the bookcases. My brother and I got them unloaded and for the time being they are going to sit in my garage. I want to clean them all off and figure out where I want to put them. There are three different types so that will be the main choice to make. I should be able to wrestle them inside by myself once I get that all sorted out.

After all that was done I was finally able to sit down and eat my stir fry leftovers. At 9:45PM. It was a late dinner but it was also delicious.

Now it is 11:13PM and I have to wake up at six o'clock tomorrow morning so I am going to wrap this up so hopefully I can record a quick audio journal and then go to sleep. My fingers are crossed that I can sleep off this massive headache. And that my body isn't completely broken in the morning.