Our Ship Finally Came In

... and our Stuff is here. The ship they originally told us our stuff was on is still somewhere in the Persian Gulf -- apparently they moved our container to a faster ship. We are relieved. Also very tired. The house is full of boxes, a few of which have been unpacked.

Fortunately, Monday is also the day when our housekeeper, N", is here. At some point she's going to help us move excess boxes into the storage unit we haven't rented yet, because we took an awful lot more stuff than we should have. Much of that is books; some is CDs and maybe DVDs.

Right now it's about 8pm here, and it does NOT feel like Monday. I'm also feeling cold, and there are boxes between me and the thermostat. I did manage to make sure a few other important items -- like the coffee, and the boxes of cardboard that were already staged to go out Sunday night for pickup next Monday.