My To Do List, and other verbal vomit

So I'm sitting here, amid the chaos that is our house, fresh off a thrill-a-minute V-Day excursion to Bed Bath and Beyond and Wal-Mart. There's furniture everywhere, there's bedding and new luggage where the dining room table had been this morning - and my mind is racing through the Mt Wa-Wa-Wachusett of stuff I need to accomplish. We move 2 weeks from Thursday. Let that marinate for just a second.

Did I mention I have Jury Duty tomorrow? Yup - the universe, or at least the Commonwealth, has a sense of humor. I swear, I can't make this stuff up - only me. Jury Duty tomorrow, this past Friday I had a root canal. Last week I went to pick up my dry cleaning (and get language barrier patience training) and found my dry cleaners had been shut down for "Failure to comply with State Compension Policy" - so Saturday morning I had a clandestine rendezvous with my dry cleaner in the parking lot behind a Lutheran Church. I poop you not.

This morning, the "Global Relocation Consultant" came by to get an idea of what we are shipping to Singapore. The process leading up to that was Kellie and I walking through the house and pointing. Then I re-pointed for Hal. Looks like we're shipping by sea (like boat, big slow boat) instead of air - mind you - it will take 6-8 weeks for our gear to show-up on the Singapore-side. Why is this worth blogging about? Why do you care? Because it means it all has to go this week so it's there in time for us moving into our perm flat (would flat perm be an oxymoron?).

Jury Dury

Here is my To Do List (or a portion thereof):
- I have $381 worth of rolled change that I need to write my account number on and forklift into the Supermarket
- Get my taxes done (Thursday night) to find out how much money I have to sent the Government of a country I'm moving out of
- I've got to bring a Crosstour full of stuff to Fitchburg and come back with the carpet cleaner
- I have to create Bank Accounts with Mom for Rent Checks and Bank Accounts with Kellie in Singapore as evidence of our Domestic Partnership (more on that later. . . . )
- Get the motorcycle ready to sit dormant and sad through 2 riding seasons
- Clean the fireplace
- Sort through the stuff we'll need in Singapore and decide what's going in the Shipment and stuff we're carrying (mind you, we need to survive on the stuff in our baggage for the 6-8 weeks before we get the shipment)
- Give back our cars to Honda
- Shopping - we've done a ton, and many things (anything with a plug) we'll have to buy in Singapore - I'm sure that'll be a blog all on it's own. Do they even HAVE coffee makers there? Can we get Maxwell House there? How will Santa Claus and the Girl Scouts find me in S'pore?
- Download copious amounts of stuff to iTunes

Good news - I have checked off some items from the list. I got a haircut, vacuumed (yup, that's spelled right) the garage, you know, the critical elements of the relocation battleplan.

Now, some asides - this is where we'll be staying prior to finding our apartment: http://www.panpacific.com/pan_pacific_service_suites_singapore/index.html - it's a serviced suite, keep the comments PG

Since we're not married, this is what Kellie wrote, signed, and had notarized today so that I won't spend 2 years at Singapore airport:

"I, Kellie A. Kilcoyne, of North Grafton, Massachusetts do solemnly declare that I am in a common-law relationship with Christopher L. Leger.  Christopher and I started our relationship in December 2007.  We committed to living together, and providing emotional support and domestic interdependence in August 2008.  Commitment of our intentions to become legally married occurred in May 2010 when we became engaged to each other." Ahhh romance

Remarkable - someone would notarize their love for me. Anyway, I'm glad she did it, my version went like this: "Dear Singapore, I like Kellie and Kellie likes me. We're more than friends. Love Chris"

Should have our flight info tomorrow, unless I'm not clever enough to dodge getting put on a trial