After staying home all day yesterday, I finally left the apartment this afternoon, but only because I ran out of packing tape and couldn’t do any more packing without it! I didn’t get a very good night’s sleep last night, so after I hung up with Eric at 9:00am I went back to sleep for a while. I finally woke up again around 11:00am, had breakfast, worked on the computer, and got ready to go out.
I drove through Starbucks (how I missed it yesterday!) and then drove to PACIFIC BEACH. I first stopped at the SALVATION ARMY. I wanted to find out how to get them to pick up a piece of furniture I want to donate. It’s the entertainment center I actually bought from them last year. I tried to sell it by putting a poster up in the laundry room, but I figure if I can get them to come pick it up, I might as well just give it away, rather than putting an ad on CRAIG’S LIST. I have found from experience that a lot of people from Craig's List say they’re coming, but don’t show up, and I’d rather not deal with that.
After I got the information from the Salvation Army, I went to STAPLES and bought six more rolls of packing tape. I’ve now spent about $50 on packing tape! It’s a good thing I had all the tissue and paper from our last move, and got a lot of boxes from different people. So, the packing tape is my only expense – so far!
When I got back I spent the rest of the afternoon packing until Rosemary picked me up for dinner at 6:15pm. We went to IMPERIAL MANDARIN, our favorite Chinese Restaurant on Convoy. We had our usual – we shared fried wontons and she had Kung Pao Chicken, while I had the Kung Pao Shrimp.
Rosemary told me about a group she went to with another girl from work where there’s a medium who helps you connect with your angels. I thought this was very interesting as I am very interested in angels and believe they are all around us, helping us and guiding us. I believe that our angels are all the people we love who have passed. They continue to love us and support us on the other side. We had a long discussion about our different views on this and other similar subjects. Rosemary is the one I went with to see Charlotte, the psychic, and she and I are both very interested in this type of thing.
Rosemary also told me that she and her sister, Lisa, whom I have met several times and is also really sweet, would like to come visit us in NY in the spring of 2010. I was so excited about that. The thought of having a San Diego friend visit in NY made me very happy.
We thoroughly enjoyed our meal and each took home enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow. Delicious AND good company! It was a lot of fun.
After dinner we drove just a few blocks to TARGET, so Rosemary could pick up a few items. Then, she dropped me off back at home. I’ll see her again Wednesday, at the HR luncheon.
When I got in I started blogging, and then watched DANCING WITH THE STARS and MEDIUM. I really had the urge to do more packing, but it just makes too much noise and isn’t fair to my neighbors.
Tomorrow I have to make another trip to the post office. I tried for the second time to register my change of address online. The first time it didn’t work and I went to the post office. They told me that it was because Eric had just gotten the keys and it might not be in the system yet. I waited 4 days and tried again today. I’m going to try again tomorrow, but if it doesn’t work I’m going back there with the hand-written form filled out. Sometimes the old way is still the best way!