Welp. I’ve moved! New house, who dis? Unpacking is going to be a looooooong process – I’ve only just gotten started, really. The kids have basically unpacked and set up their rooms, which is the good news, and Steve and I have churned our way through about two-thirds of the reusable boxes that we rented; we still have a ways to go but things are looking good for all of the reusable boxes being empty when the rental company comes to pick them up a week from today. The bad news is that my books are all still in a sea of cardboard and will be for awhile yet – I wish unpacking books was a priority but I’ve got to get the kitchen and closets done. The result of all that is, predictably, I didn’t get much reading done last week.
I spent most of the week over A Sultry Month, which was really well-written and interesting, but probably not the best choice to engage my limited attention during moving week. I finally wrapped it up on Saturday and spent the weekend over The Thirty-First of June. How you can tell that reading time and energy is limited: at full power, I’d read that in one sitting and it would take me less than two hours; a comedic novella about time travel is very my jam. I did really love it, but it just took me longer to read than normal. (Also not helping: the lighting situation in my soon-to-be-set-up reading space is not finalized yet; once the sun goes down all I have is my cordless floor lamp, and the kids left that on and drained the batteries so the light was too dim to read last night. Blah.)
Anyway, I finally finished The Thirty-First of June over my coffee this morning and moved on to The Last Chronicle of Barset, unpictured in the gallery above because I started it today. It’s the last book in my Classics Club challenge – final reviews coming over the next few weeks – and it might be the longest at 930 pages. I’m on page 14, so. Won’t be finishing this one in a week.
Does this picture say “summer” or what? I’m setting a goal to find the best soft-serve in northern Virginia this season. Nugget and I made our first ice cream mission of the season on Saturday, to Nathan’s Dairy Bar in Manassas. Creamsicle-vanilla twist with rainbow sprinkles FTW. Do you say sprinkles, or jimmies?
What are you reading this week?
covered in flour 
You can rent moving boxes? I wonder if I can do that here?
You sure can! I have done it twice now and highly recommend – it’s a win/win/win for me. They tend to be less expensive than buying cardboard, better for the planet, and there’s a deadline to unpack them so I am forced to clear them out and not let them sit around for months. The company I use does a white-glove doorstep delivery and pickup and you can set how many boxes to rent and how long you want to keep them (anything from 1-4 weeks). I don’t know how it would work with a long-distance move (there might be national companies that can do drop-off in one state and pickup in another; I’ve only used them for local moves and that has been really convenient. I’d just google something like “rent reusable moving boxes [your zip code]” and see what comes up – I believe that’s what I did the first time, and for this move I had records of the company I’d previously used and just contacted them again. Happy moving!
I’ll look into it. I’ll be moving at some point before May