Sorting a Packing

I am temporarily home between jobs. When I arrived home, My stuff was transported into Heather's room, Heather is not using it, and put onto the ground. Heather's room has residual junk from both Heather and Jessica and by the time my junk arrived, it was getting pretty cramped. I did a brief sort out of things and junk, including the lounge box in the family room where mum had put my junk so our boarder could move in. This included books from my bookshelf, all jammed in with the other junk. I have a LOT of books so I moved them back to my bookshelf and thus made a mess and room for more stuff.

Today I began to sort through what I would take to Perth and what I could begin to pack now and how to go about it... The theory was to turn this
And this

Into this

And this

As you can see there was some degree of success, The stuff I won't be needing till Perth is packed and the other stuff is sort of sorted into appropriate places including the bag to take to Summer School and Maitland Alive... And the lounge box is shut!

Cars

I drive a revolting car that we have christened The Seacow. There is a good reason for this, it is ugly, it smells funny and it is slow and unresponsive and corners terribly. The other thing I discovered today is that it is a front wheel drive. This would not normally be a problem except that today, when I went to get my pay, the kids said not to park in my usual spot but to go round the corner and park in a "better spot". I did this and felt the ominous dip as the front wheel went into a puddle that reached its hub cap. I figured it would be OK since at the time I assumed it was a rear wheel drive and the back wheels would pull it out.

It took a little while for me to admit defeat and get some help and it took 2 blokes and a lot of pushing to get it out. I will NOT miss the Seacow when I go home