They gave me a two hour window

nǐhǎo,

This is it from this room. 
It is highly unlikely that I will live in this house again:(

The packers gave me an estimated arrival of 8:30 to 10:30.....how do they run a business with such vagaries?  Besides, as much as I dread the next three days, I really want to get on with them. Dragging it out does not help my stress level.

Perhaps then I might sleep past 5:30 in the morning.  Speaking of sleeping, I apologize to anyone who has used our foldout couch in the past few years....Mom and Dad.......I slept on it last night, what am I thinking that I can do that for a month??  Tonight I think the mattress goes on the floor, we will try that.  It didn't used to be like this but I guess everything sags with time, haha!

I am so sad about how little of my fabric and other supplies I think I can bring. It is hard to know what they call reasonable amounts....The things I have selected look like such a pitiful amount.....I will have to come back here as often as possible to pick up more!

Mike is going to look at another house today or tomorrow...hard to be sure as they are going to bed as we get up.  They have used the day we are just starting.  He thinks this will be the better choice.  I trust him to get the right one.  My bedroom will be on the third floor.  My aching knee! I never even came house hunting when we moved back to Florence 6 years ago.  The town is small and I knew the location of the neighborhoods he would look in, he did good!

Enough of this.  I have a bit more to organize today.  I think I did half the work for the movers already. Maybe not, I don't lift furniture anymore:)

zàijiàn!

Pack Day is coming Fast!

Long time no post. 

Mike left for China this past Sunday:(

The past month has mostly been spent sorting through the accumulation of our lives.  We have purged and purged.  I just don't want to come home to tons of stuff that should have been taken care of long ago, ie. if we stay in China five years.

The packers are coming Monday morning, as of this post they have not told me exactly what time.  I don't expect it to be the crack of dawn as they are coming from the beach and that takes about an hour and a half.   (Of course, I scheduled Olivia to have an eye Dr. appointment at 9:00 Monday morning...that was what they had available.  Thank goodness for friends, Martha is coming to my rescue and can take her.) I am trying to figure out what to put in the air shipment....this stuff will arrive first and may be all we have the first month in the house. A box approximately 54" x 54" x 56" , or some such size. These have to be practical items like dishes, blankets, personal items, and a few fun things like books to read and puzzles to do.   And of course a bit of sewing.  I may include my sewing machine...less time in transit to get injured.  And a way to keep my sanity. 
I have been loading up my Kindle like crazy with free books.  I figure if I don't like it after the first chapter I can go on to the next.  I will read most anything except all these vampire things that are out now a days.  Not much in the way of a library with English language books in Beijing.   They do have an English bookstore though.

And, speaking of our house....Mike went house hunting his first full day in Beijing.  He saw nine houses and narrowed it down to 3.  One has a giant bowl for the Master bath tub...looks pretty funky!  When I figure out how to do pictures......
Then another house became available the next day so he will look at that next week.  He thinks that will be the one as the location in the compound is better. 
This is a holiday weekend for China so Mike is having a four day weekend.......Not bad for a first week on the job.....I don't think he knew it when he decided on his start date.

Enough to let you know we are still alive and kicking.
Olivia and I leave here on the 26th of July.
Back to organizing.  I am so over organizing.......