Claire - Unpacking Nightmare

Can I just tell you how much I hate having to unpack everything? How did we accumulate this much stuff?? And where am I supposed to put it all? It's not like I'm really moving back home, so I don't want to fully settle everything in, but at the same time it's not like there's any other place for everything. I wouldn't even be worrying about it yet if it weren't for the fact that Dave gets in on Tuesday (yaaay!) and so it has to be tidy by then. That, and the fact that it was dangerous to move around my room because 90% of the floor space was covered in some sort of box or bag of my belongings. I've made progress on it today, but there is still plenty more to be thrown in the corner of the closet Tuesday afternoon before Dave's plane lands.

Also, today I spectacularly failed at giving my dad his birthday present. It's his birthday today, and I went to Target with Kate to pick up the deck chairs that he wants for the back yard. So we bought them and took them to the car, and they didn't fit. Now, I tried every way I could think of to fit even just one of them in there, but to no avail. So then I had to go inside Target, ask the nice customer service boy if I could use the phone (since somehow both Kate and I managed to leave our cells at home) call Mum to ask Dad to come to Target with his truck to pick us up. Not awkward at all.... So while we're sitting in the parking lot waiting for him to come I improvise I bow out of a sweater tie that I have in my purse, plus some tin foil to make it sparkle, while Kate makes a card out of note paper and puts it in the envelope that just happens to be in with my other papers. It may have been less than perfect, but I must say, he did look surprised!

And that has been my day. Tomorrow promises to be more exciting. I have to get up and take my mum to work at 4:20am so that I'll have the car, and then I'm off to lunch with Cait. So good times in store for me tomorrow. And then Tuesday the boy gets into town!