We are all to some
extent creatures of habit, me perhaps more than some and perhaps more so as I
age. Today my routine was upset. Movers were due at nine o’clock this morning to
take three pieces of furniture from my bedroom—a mahogany bed with a six-foot
headboard and a four-foot footboard, a matching mahogany buffet with a marble
top, and a sewing stand. The buffet is not so heavy, but the bed and buffet
are. The plan is for the movers to store the furniture until the new floor is
in.
I was not
surprised that I woke up at four-thirty and could not go back to sleep. Anticipation.
Worrying about those few last-minute things I had to move—a drawer to be
emptied, the bed to be stripped. With the help of Jordan and Jacob, I had emptied
drawers over a two-week period and moved chairs and gotten everything off the
floor and much of it stored in the main house. But there was that nervous
anticipation.
The movers arrived
promptly, and all seemed well. But then they had trouble dismantling the bed frame,
and that made me nervous. It’s the bed my parents slept in—probably the one in
which I was conceived—and it’s a memory from childhood, the place I would go
for comfort. I remember once having nightmares—the only time in my life—and going
to sleep with my parents. And I remember as a tiny child being invited to
cuddle in the mornings. No, I don’t want anything to happen to that bed. The
buffet was always in our dining room. Now its marble is broken into two pieces,
and I am never sure if it always was or if that happened in one of my moves
since I’ve had it. The sewing stand, also a piece of childhood memory, is light
and not a problem—and it makes a great bedside table. I love being surrounded
by family antiques.
They got
everything moved in fairly short order once they figured out how to deal with
the bed. And Omigosh! The mess under the bed. And the difference in color in
the carpet where it was trafficked from where it was under the bed. That carpet
was a mistake from the beginning. W will leave it in the closet simply because
clearing out the closet was too much to even contemplate. I took pictures of
the mess, but even as I did, I heard Jordan’s words, “Don’t blog about this.” I
am not sharing those pictures.
The floor people
had said they’d be here “after lunch,” but time ticked away. By two I decided
to take a nap on the couch, figuring I could hop right up if they arrived. They
didn’t, and now I hear that they will be here at nine-thirty in the morning. I
can sleep late, provided the couch lets me sleep soundly.
I was delighted
that with all this today I got quite a bit of writing done and am headed in the
right direction on research. But I sure will be glad to have my house back in
order and to sleep in my own bed. Who knows when?
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