tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-05-29:907415truth in the thunder, love in the lightning, and isn't it exciting?Karolina KeeneKarolina Keene2012-07-30T22:07:03Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2011-05-29:907415:8847killerkaleidoscope @ 2012-07-30T11:48:002012-07-30T22:07:03Z2012-07-30T22:07:03Z"Exurgency" -- Zoe Keatinggroggypublic0My stepmother gave up on her vow of silent enmity in order to call me Saturday afternoon and let me know my brother and a friend of his were in town with a half-empty U-Haul. They were headed north Sunday morning, and I'm <em>moving </em>north, so she told us we should work something out so long as he had a moving vehicle and big muscles on hand to be lent to us. Great idea, right? Turns out that my stepmother's idea for a short-notice mad scramble to move some of our things with the aid of my brother and his friend's rented U-Haul and borrowed muscle was <em>ill-advised</em>, to say the least. How ill-advised? Let's see:<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://killerkaleidoscope.dreamwidth.org/8847.html#cutid1">so very, very ill-advised</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />It was a very, very long day. I feel like a dishrag last used to scrub out the inside of a tractor and then left to dry all crunchy and gross in a corner somewhere. Today is going to involve nothing more strenuous than picking up a book.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=killerkaleidoscope&ditemid=8847" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments