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MAKING A LIST

June 6, 2015 by Bonnie

It’s cathartic writing this. The last three weeks have been so intense. It’s starting to become a blur so if I don’t document it, I’m certain to forget much of it. I need to record all that transpired between the time we sold the house and the time we moved out. If I don’t write it down and try to recall it sometime in the future, I doubt I’d believe it was possible to do everything we did. There’s not a lot of memory left on my brain’s hard drive. I have to clear out some space if I’m going to make new memories!

I had a revelation. I’m doing this for Jim and me! So, t takes the pressure off. I don’t have to be entertaining! I can bore the shit out of myself if I choose to! And I can be honest.

In no particular order…

  1. Sold the house in one day with 13 offers
  2. Cleaned out 10 years of stuff
  3. Rehearsals and production of my play
  4. NLG dinner honoring Jim
  5. Jim trained new person to take over NLG
  6. End of USC classes; read and gave notes to students; graded
  7. Spent one weekend with SB developing series
  8. Booked hotels in four countries (devoted countless hours due to my massive hotel neurosis)
  9. Found villa in Italy
  10. Found apartment in London
  11. Mapped car route in Europe
  12. Mapped car route from San Francisco to Denver
  13. Set up new bank account, lost new checks, reset up account
  14. Closed out utilities, subscriptions, etc.
  15. Re-did our wills
  16. Dealt with psycho tenant
  17. Narrowly escaped London rental scam by employing skills learned reading Nancy Drew at a young age
  18. Booked cars in LA & Europe
  19. Countless hours spent on clothes (forgot to pack most of them)
  20. Hair cut and colored
  21. Bit off three nails
  22. Dealt with “Mad Men” ending
  23. Three visits to vet
  24. 200 plus hours on research & arrangements for transporting dogs (then the airlines never checked the papers they made us get)
  25. Moved art to friend’s house
  26. Farewell tea party
  27. Farewell anniversary party
  28. Hunted down overdue residuals on two projects
  29. Found place to live for one month when we return
  30. Wrote recommendations for several students
  31. Set up and learned how to do blog
  32. Found international health insurance policy
  33. Found bakery in SF for Zoe, my niece who graduated law school and Wes’s, my other niece Lia’s husband, graduation cake
  34. Moved our cars to Culver City
  35. Picked up rental car
  36. Had yahrzeit for father
  37. Finished one painting, started another
  38. Got new carriers for dogs to match airlines guidelines (one broke five minutes before landing in France
  39. Had numerous meltdowns
  40. Taught myself  pool on  iPad app
  41. Pipe burst in bathroom at midnight, day after closing
  42. Kitchen sink back up three days before move
  43. Turned our magical cottage over to new owner (whom we love, thank “god”)
  44. Set up new phone & data plan for cell (naturally it didn’t when I got here)
  45. Became gypsies. No physical address. Anywhere.

       WHAT’S AMAZING ABOUT LAST FOUR DAYS 

  1. The dogs went from lunatics to chill.   From clean to filthy.
  2. We went from lunatics to chill.
  3. I’ve only had ONE gelato
  4. How many people we connected with in such a short time
  5. I stopped thinking about Mad Men
  6. I haven’t lost anything in 72 hours
  7. My large, delicious salad at lunch cost 2 Euro ($2.13)
  8. A bottle of Prosecco cost $5.00
  9. We found our way back at night from the nearest town, 9 km, Camucia without using our GPS
  10. Jim learned to work the GPS
  11. Jim learned to write on the iPad
  12. The farmhouse we’ve rented is perfect
  13. The realtor let us out of our lease and exchanged the crap house for this lovely place.
  14. Our view is window of the hilltown of Cortona is magical.

More on our charming farmhouse in a tiny town of San Lorenzo outside of Cortona. The name of the farmhouse “Le Quiete di Vigneto”…the quiet vineyard.

 

 

Kukla & Peter Rabbit get some R & R.
Kukla & Peter Rabbit get some R & R.
This is virtually the same picture I posted when we got to Sam Francisco.  Only different country and different bed.
This is virtually the same picture I posted when we got to Sam Francisco. Only different country and different bed.

 

 

 

 

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