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Authors: Edeet Ravel
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change my mind. They caught me just in time.
Now I have to find my French dictionary and make sure I know how to say three rooms, heat and electricity included, $950.
Yours forever,
Fern
Wednesday
December 12
Hi Xanoth,
I took the bus down to Clanranald this morning to clean up the new apartment. I had to buy another strip of six tickets.
The apartment wasnât that dirty, actually. There are lots of cupboards in the kitchen part. The fridge is about a hundred years old, the kind you have to defrost, but it was clean too. I took the weird black roof cover off the table and put it in the equipment closet. You never know when youâll need something like that.
I also took the table and chairs down to the cellar. They arenât as nice as our table and chairs. Maybe at some point I can sell them for five or ten dollars.
When I finished cleaning, I went to the library and wrote down the phone numbers of a few movers from Saturdayâs
Gazette
.
At first I got into a huge panic, because everyone I called was saying $700 and $1000 for a move. And they were mean too, like they were angry at me for bothering them. That makes sense. Advertise your services, then yell at anyone who calls.
But finally there was one ad that said SMALL MOVES, AFFORDABLE . And the guy was normal. He didnât yell. He said if I had another person to help it would be $200. That was a lot cheaper than everyone else, plus he said he could come tomorrow morning, so I said OK.
I donât know how Iâll fit all my furniture into one room. Actually, our place came furnished, so the furniture doesnât really belong to me, but I donât think the landlord remembers. What happened was that the old woman who lived here died. No one came to get her furniture, so when we rented the place the landlord raised the price from $400 unfurnished to $450 furnished. Thatâs an extra $600 a year times ten years, plus all the rent hikes which would have been lower had we started off with $400. I think weâve earned the furniture by now, especially since it didnât belong to the landlord in the first place.
Apart from the kitchen table and chairs, I have my bed, my night table, my bureau and attached mirror, Momâs double bed, her two bureaus, a sewing table, a cabinet with glass doors and a sofa.
The sofa I can leave behind. Itâs just junk by now. But everything else is made of nice dark wood.
I also want to keep Momâs belongings. The only thing I got rid of is her toothbrush, because it gave me the creeps. I couldnât get myself to throw it in the garbage, so I wrapped it and buried it. Iâve been collecting nice paper since I was a little kid, and I have a whole box full of prettyscraps. I chose a piece of light blue tissue paper to wrap around the toothbrush, and I buried it under some loose linoleum in the closet.
Iâm going to miss this place a lot. We lived here a long time. Plus itâs where I lived with Mom. Once I leave here, sheâll really be gone from my life.
Yours forever,
Fern
Friday
December 14
Hi Xanoth,
Iâm in my new apartment. I just woke up and remembered where I was. I must say I was happy that I have a safe place to live in. I took a long shower. It was weird using a different shower with different types of knobs.
Beauty canât figure out whatâs going on. Sheâs going from corner to corner sniffing and meowing and making sure her foodâs still there.
The mover, Jeff, was nice. He has this old beat-up truck, and even though it was around minus 20 with the wind chill, all he had on was a sweater and a jean jacket. He thought for sure some guy would be there when he arrived. When I said it was only me, he laughed. I said, âIâm stronger than I look.â
He didnât believe me at first, but when he saw how I lifted things he was impressed. The furnitureâs pretty heavy, but at least we didnât have to move the fridge and
Now I have to find my French dictionary and make sure I know how to say three rooms, heat and electricity included, $950.
Yours forever,
Fern
Wednesday
December 12
Hi Xanoth,
I took the bus down to Clanranald this morning to clean up the new apartment. I had to buy another strip of six tickets.
The apartment wasnât that dirty, actually. There are lots of cupboards in the kitchen part. The fridge is about a hundred years old, the kind you have to defrost, but it was clean too. I took the weird black roof cover off the table and put it in the equipment closet. You never know when youâll need something like that.
I also took the table and chairs down to the cellar. They arenât as nice as our table and chairs. Maybe at some point I can sell them for five or ten dollars.
When I finished cleaning, I went to the library and wrote down the phone numbers of a few movers from Saturdayâs
Gazette
.
At first I got into a huge panic, because everyone I called was saying $700 and $1000 for a move. And they were mean too, like they were angry at me for bothering them. That makes sense. Advertise your services, then yell at anyone who calls.
But finally there was one ad that said SMALL MOVES, AFFORDABLE . And the guy was normal. He didnât yell. He said if I had another person to help it would be $200. That was a lot cheaper than everyone else, plus he said he could come tomorrow morning, so I said OK.
I donât know how Iâll fit all my furniture into one room. Actually, our place came furnished, so the furniture doesnât really belong to me, but I donât think the landlord remembers. What happened was that the old woman who lived here died. No one came to get her furniture, so when we rented the place the landlord raised the price from $400 unfurnished to $450 furnished. Thatâs an extra $600 a year times ten years, plus all the rent hikes which would have been lower had we started off with $400. I think weâve earned the furniture by now, especially since it didnât belong to the landlord in the first place.
Apart from the kitchen table and chairs, I have my bed, my night table, my bureau and attached mirror, Momâs double bed, her two bureaus, a sewing table, a cabinet with glass doors and a sofa.
The sofa I can leave behind. Itâs just junk by now. But everything else is made of nice dark wood.
I also want to keep Momâs belongings. The only thing I got rid of is her toothbrush, because it gave me the creeps. I couldnât get myself to throw it in the garbage, so I wrapped it and buried it. Iâve been collecting nice paper since I was a little kid, and I have a whole box full of prettyscraps. I chose a piece of light blue tissue paper to wrap around the toothbrush, and I buried it under some loose linoleum in the closet.
Iâm going to miss this place a lot. We lived here a long time. Plus itâs where I lived with Mom. Once I leave here, sheâll really be gone from my life.
Yours forever,
Fern
Friday
December 14
Hi Xanoth,
Iâm in my new apartment. I just woke up and remembered where I was. I must say I was happy that I have a safe place to live in. I took a long shower. It was weird using a different shower with different types of knobs.
Beauty canât figure out whatâs going on. Sheâs going from corner to corner sniffing and meowing and making sure her foodâs still there.
The mover, Jeff, was nice. He has this old beat-up truck, and even though it was around minus 20 with the wind chill, all he had on was a sweater and a jean jacket. He thought for sure some guy would be there when he arrived. When I said it was only me, he laughed. I said, âIâm stronger than I look.â
He didnât believe me at first, but when he saw how I lifted things he was impressed. The furnitureâs pretty heavy, but at least we didnât have to move the fridge and
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