My Little Corner of the World

Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004 | 5:51 p.m. Alaska Time

The ~~crap~~ minutae of life

Holy hell, we're moving again. And we have so much crap. Most of it is being moved into a rented storage shed until we can move it to our new place. I'm going through what's already in storage and separating out what we don't use anymore and what's trash. So far, the count is about seven boxes of unused stuff going towards a garage sale hopefully this weekend...and four kitchen-size bags of garbage. And I'm only about halfway done.

We've had rain since last night, sometimes heavy, sometimes accompanied by lightning and thunder. More is forecast. So my garage sale might have to be put off until after we move. Shit, I was hoping to do it before the move so we wouldn't have to move the crap with us.

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In other news, seems every other 5-year old in the country has started Kindergarten except for those in Anchorage. They don't start until the 13th.

I took the girls school shopping. It was really supposed to be only for C, but of course M had to have everything the same too. So both of them got new shoes, backpacks, lunchboxes, and clothes. Still have to go back for supplies, but I'm waiting to see which school C will ultimately attend before buying them because each school has a different list of needed supplies.

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I found out through my sister's diary that our grandmother is now a ward of the state because of her alzheimer's and will soon be sent here to Anchorage to live in an assisted living facility.

So I called our father to see what was up and he basically reiterated everything my sister had written, plus a few more details.

Nanny, as we call her, had been going up to the hospital 4-5 times a day, complaining that she had swallowed her false teeth. She'd become a nuisance, so someone reported the problem and the state took custody. Dad said she's an inpatient at the hospital and someone is outside her door 24/7 to make sure she doesn't go anywhere. She'll soon be transferred to Anchorage. Dad is going to try to become her legal guardian.

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