After breakfast, I went downstairs to start sorting through all of those boxes. I was in the basement for about an hour when I realized I'd need somewhere to put everything besides a cardboard box. I don't trust cardboard boxes in a basement. Some smaller things would fit in the dresser drawers and I already had a bin for the pans, but that one bin wouldn't hold everything. I finally grabbed my umbrella and headed out to run errands, ignoring the cloudy day and light showers.
Stopped at WaWa first. I needed money from the ATM machine. Since I was there, I treated myself to a Green Pineapple Smoothie. Oh, yum. Matcha, pineapple, and other tropical fruit. Earthy, fruity, and very green. I'll have to get that again sometime.
Family Dollar is closer to WaWa than Dollar General. I grabbed the three largest bins they had, plus a smaller narrow rolling bin for the glasses and mugs I wouldn't be using upstairs. Cost me a bundle, but I did get them. Stopped at A&A Pretzels for lunch. They didn't have the regular cheesesteak-stuffed pretzel, but their gluten-free turned out to be even better (and more stuffed) than the originals. Grabbed two regular pretzels as well.
Had lunch upstairs while watching PAW Patrol. "The Pups Save a Snowboarding Competition" when they first help husky miss Everest clear the course during a snowstorm, then rescue the Kitten Catastrophe crew after they go off-course. Cap'n Turnbot and Mayor Goodway are horrified when a cat and her pet chicken Chickaletta get trapped in his computerized diving bell. "The Pups Save the Diving Bell" after they finally get the two to decide if saving the bell or the animals is more important.
Spent the next three hours going through everything in the boxes. Most of it did stay downstairs. In fact, I ended up transferring the box of dishes and bowls and bag of kitchen towels from my closet to the third bin. There were a few things that were moved to my rooms, including my Garfield McDonald's glasses, my old Donald Duck Melody Time jelly jar glass, and my favorite brick-red mug with the pretty gold and brown flower print. I can use that retro strawberry-print colander to hold fruit again, too. (Alas, a few things didn't survive the multiple moves. My Three Caballeros jelly jar glass was the only one that broke, and a big piece broke off the lid of my mini-crock pot.) Cleared out a bunch of old tea bags, spices, and sugar sprinkles, too, and moved the remaining ones into tins or the metal shelves upstairs.
I was so worn out from running up and down stairs all afternoon, all I was up to after I finished was watching Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story. I go further into the harrowing tale of an R&B diva who survives drug addiction and domestic abuse to make a comeback in the 2000's at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Switched to Match Game Syndicated while eating dinner. They're now on the week with Randi Oakes, one of three cast members of the police procedural show CHIPs to appear on Match Game. David Doyle has far less luck with the Head-to-Head for pretty much the whole week.
Finished the night with The Best of Stevie Nicks: Time Space on CD while I worked on my Love Under New Management review. Though I've heard Nicks in one way or another all my life, I didn't recognize a lot of these songs. There are some pretty big hits here, though, including "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "Talk to Me," "Edge of Seventeen," and "Leather and Lace."
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