Moving day is tomorrow and we’re almost packed. I lost a couple of hours on the couch- it’s too long to fit out the door and into the elevator so I had to remove the arms. It’s something of a process. It’s real furniture and you have to carefully undo tacking strips beneath the trim to reach the frame, but it took long mostly because I had left both sets of tools over at the new apartment. I ended up borrowing from the Superintendent. A little embarrassing.

So much packing. Somehow there’s always more in an apartment than anyone can estimate but we thought we had enough of materials. Not quite. I had to scavenge additional boxes from some people who recently moved into the building. They even had a tall wardrobe box. Later, I had to pull newspapers from the building recycling bin. Even now, close to midnight, there are still some things left out. We’re getting up early tomorrow to finish and I’ll return on Friday and Saturday to get whatever is left.