It's a good thing that moving usually means you get to be in a "new" place. Otherwise I think it would be too exhausting for anyone to do it. The excitement of the "new" place gets you through the drudgery of lugging your worldly possessions all over and the grueling deep clean of the "old" place and the heavy lifting and such. I'm tired of moving...and I know we'll be doing it at least one more time.
In our cross country move, there was a sense of urgency at the "new" place to get the TV/stereo system set up because a new episode of LOST was on that night. The receiver was placed directly on the carpet and kept turning off (or malfunctioning in other annoying ways) because it wasn't getting proper air flow. In his haste to ready the system for LOST viewing, Dave grabbed a small, unopened box marked "living room" and used it as a pedestal for the stereo components. We had every intention of replacing the box with a more permanent solution, but, until this past Sunday evening, there that box sat.
Over the past nine months the "living room" box became quite a mystery. What was inside? I didn't seem to be missing anything. From time to time we'd comment on the presence of the box beneath the stereo equipment. Maybe it's some candles, or picture frames, we'd say. These conversations would frequently lead to one of us suggesting there may be a million dollars in it.
The mystery has been solved. And, like many other things, the opening of the box was rather disappointing. Inside were boxes of votives and tea-lights, some favors from my cousin's wedding, some Christmas ornaments and decorations, and the candles we used to light our big candle at our own wedding. Damn...I was really hoping for a million dollars. Or at the very least,
Gwyneth Paltrow's head.
In our cross country move, there was a sense of urgency at the "new" place to get the TV/stereo system set up because a new episode of LOST was on that night. The receiver was placed directly on the carpet and kept turning off (or malfunctioning in other annoying ways) because it wasn't getting proper air flow. In his haste to ready the system for LOST viewing, Dave grabbed a small, unopened box marked "living room" and used it as a pedestal for the stereo components. We had every intention of replacing the box with a more permanent solution, but, until this past Sunday evening, there that box sat.
Over the past nine months the "living room" box became quite a mystery. What was inside? I didn't seem to be missing anything. From time to time we'd comment on the presence of the box beneath the stereo equipment. Maybe it's some candles, or picture frames, we'd say. These conversations would frequently lead to one of us suggesting there may be a million dollars in it.
The mystery has been solved. And, like many other things, the opening of the box was rather disappointing. Inside were boxes of votives and tea-lights, some favors from my cousin's wedding, some Christmas ornaments and decorations, and the candles we used to light our big candle at our own wedding. Damn...I was really hoping for a million dollars. Or at the very least, Gwyneth Paltrow's head.
3 comments:
mystery box's are so annoying to me!! i always think it's gonna be something I haven't seen in years and could make use of (i still have a couple of box's unpacked from our move 4 years ago) and it turns out to be that junk i wanted to get rid of when i moved from the apartment but the husband swares he couldn't live without it. they have yet to be treasured by him and even packed back into other box's by him and so those annoying mystery box's keep surfacing over and over again. but maybe, just maybe, with a little faith even, those annoying mystery box's will resurface and contain a million dollars next time. =P
I'm surprised that after two moves you guys still haven't found my mystery item yet.
they thought the hairball was from hudson.
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