BETTER

A full day. Slept, which helps, despite fucking coyotes am convinced are circling the house and have megaphones.

Up and out bright and early and off to Kushi Center around the corner to let them know house is coming on the market, they have no money but seems polite to notify them, then to Hinsdale post office to mail $54 worth of stuff to deserving folk, on towards bubble wrap and plastic sleeves at Staples, which I was pleased to note had a United Parcel Service desk, so went back to the car for the 3 huge frames of ancestors which is going to someone related I've never met in Michigan, and it would have helped if some Staples employee actually MANNED this desk more frequently than once a half century but, finally, all got sent. 

And it was onwards to Price Chopper, then Tina's for a $35 haircut, then to the bank for those paper coin sleeves for the 9000 pennies in dishes around this place, then to Goodwill in Lee, then to friend Tory's in Lee to exchange Saab for Subaru (again, we're getting quite good at this), then to Baja Charlie's with Tory for Mexican lunch of veggie quesadillas, onwards to Lucky Nails for a pedicure Vietnamese style, meaning they don't care to your face if you have disgusting fungus on your big toenails but you can be sure yak non stop in Vietnamese to everyone else who works there about your nasty toes, then across the street to Greylock Federal Credit Union to discuss possible line of credit, then home and onto to phone ASAP for meeting with DK's website magic man in the UK to get All Things KEY CHANGES, DK's memoir, onto deniskingmusic.com with all the right links, then rush rush rush to get all garbage that's been piling up for weeks from the back entry onto the driveway so friend Jenkins can collect in his truck and hit Middlefield Town Dump (open Wed from 5- 8 PM), then back here to feed him Shepherd's Pie made from lamb from Peg Freezer, which hasn't made a dent in the lamb she's got frozen, looks like it might be a whole herd of sheep in there, plus maybe a collie or two, and now here I am, 9:15 PM, and not feeling nearly as sad as I did last night.

Full day out an about is the answer.

I think I was OD-ing on scanning yesterday. And there is no doubt that the pedicure has brightened my outlook considerably. It's a bright neon orange polish I have chosen, too. 

Plus another relative I've never heard of has got in touch via the family Facebook page to say she wants all the family letters plus a glove box plus the antique sugar scoop and a slew of other things and--I am happy. Off they will go to Lincoln, Nebraska tomorrow. 

Remind me when I get back to England to never save anything ever again.

Tomorrow I start dealing with realtors and a company that can ship all this shit I'm saving over to England.