Today, my husband and I got out of our residence to purchase a mattress for our new condo.

 

If you would like to join me in this journey from the beginning, please start with Day One.

 

 

Today I roasted a pumpkin and sweet potatoes.  I fixed salmon burgers for breakfast along with sweet potatoes and made a chocolate pumpkin shake for lunch.

 

I ordered a batch of groceries and received a bottle of dill pickles.  We cooked the salmon burgers in dill pickle juice and served them with a spear of dill pickle.  We buttered the sweet potato and sprinkled it with sea salt, ground pepper, and cinnamon.

 

The pumpkin shake was lukewarm rather cold.  It was made with warm pumpkin, chocolate Orgain whey protein, barely-cooled Berkey water, oatmeal, cinnamon, lecithin granules, and a couple of Brazil nuts blended together in the Vitamix.  My husband said it kind of tasted like an original recipe.

 

 

This afternoon, my husband and I went shopping for queen-sized mattress.  We wanted to go to sleep on the first bed we lay on.  Afterwards, we tried another cheaper mattress, hoping it would have the same effect, but it was a bit too firm, so we decided on the first mattress.  We bought it today and will have it delivered to our condo after we move in.

 

After buying the mattress, we stopped at Wendy’s on the way home for junior burgers and chili.

 

 

This coming week is going to be packed with activity.  I am almost afraid to do anything for fear that I will not do something else that is more important.  On September fourteenth, I made an extensive to-do list that I included on this book/blog.  Over the next several weeks I got almost everything on the list done.  Perhaps I need to do that again, except now everything needs to be done in a week and a half.

 

1	Acquire a second copy of the move-out handbook.	26-Nov
2	Arrange for cleaners at this retirement complex to restore our residence to like-new condition.	26-Nov
3	Ask my husband’s son if he will 1) help us execute the move-out handbook instructions, 2) find a doctor for my husband who will accepts his insurances, 3) find an auto mechanic for my husband, 4) find cleaners for the condo, and 5) set up our new TV and an antenna in the condo.  Follow up with a text reminder on November 26th about 11:00 AM and say I will call Tuesday.	26-Nov
4	Get the wire transfer scheduled for the condo on November 26th or 27th.	26-Nov
5	Have consultations with two moving companies on November 26th and choose between them.	26-Nov
6	Keep track of meal credit tally, so we know how many more times we can eat here before we move out.	26-Nov
7	Negotiate with the cable company for a better rate on November 26th, Cyber Monday, possibly cancelling old contract before the 30-day limit.  Lower the bandwidth on our Internet, if needed.	26-Nov
8	November 26th call to re-schedule counseling on December 6th to December 13th.  (I will be too exhausted to go the day right after the move.)	26-Nov
9	November 26th, write a letter to the executive director, informing him of our intention of move out.	26-Nov
10	Arrange for cleaners to clean carpets, clean out cabinets, etc. at the condo.	27-Nov
11	Call information to arrange cancellation of meals starting at the next cycle.	27-Nov
12	Organize all our stuff before December 5th, so that when it is packed and unpacked, it will get put in the right place.  Mark items to discard and mark where all items are going.  Default all boxes to the second bedroom.	27-Nov
13	Check with my husband’s pharmacy by November 28th if they have not yet called to see if they have contacted his doctors yet.	28-Nov
14	Get property insurance for the condo by November 28th.  Our realtor gave us a couple of contact numbers.	28-Nov
15	Check for my husband’s new coat in the mail between November 29th and December 4th.	29-Nov
16	Get the condo’s building manager’s contact information from our realtor and inform him/her three days by November 29th of our intention to move in and pay the move-in fee.	29-Nov
17	See a doctor on November 29th.	29-Nov
18	Close on condo November 30th.	30-Nov
19	Do a walk-thru inspection of the condo on December 3rd after the current residents move out.  Determine if cleaning will be needed the next day.	3-Dec
20	Move out old mattress on December 3rd.	3-Dec
21	Clean condo, if needed December 4th.	4-Dec
22	On December 5th morning, pack bedding into jeep to move to condo.	5-Dec
23	Pack and move out December 5th.	5-Dec
24	Turn in keys December 5th.	5-Dec
26	Move mattress to condo on December 6th.	6-Dec
27	Order medicine for myself December 7th.	7-Dec