Today, I worked on cataloging all of the items in the house for the big move. My sister-in-law helped out. With the two of us, we catalogued roughly 160 items in 5 1/2 hours. Granted, she ran into scheduling complications and was only able to help for a couple hours, this indicates how brutal this process will be. Thus far, all of the DVD's and VHS's are catalogued as well as 3/4's of one kitchen cabinet. Put into perspective, though, the dining room will have few items, as will the garage and most of the living room. The killer is in the little stuff...and the basement. My wife and I have a LOT of CD's. All of the kitchen items are proving to be intensive as well. The basement...TONS of little things all boxed up. I'm already starting to designate items that will not come with us.
I'm attempting to label everything with a sticker or a tie-on tag when I can. Some things, like towels and linens may have to go unmarked. I am also taking pictures of everything, so that should help. I'm choosing to catalog using webcams connected to laptops and desktops to take pictures. The resolution is not as good as a regular camera, but the image goes directly into the computer and can be immediately cataloged and noted in excel. I cannot think of a faster way to do it. Based upon today's progress and how mentally exhausting it gets, I will get done by next week at the soonest...IF I catalog every day until then. I'm still not sure about the best way to catalog paperwork. I'm thinking I'll put them in enclosable folders or something like that.
Etsy was very chill today. I honestly think she's better when she spends more time with me. From here on out, I'll be diligent about walking her for 20+ minutes twice a day. I had recently fallen to once a day as my parents were walking her before I pick her up from work. My new thing with her is to train her to fetch my keys when I leave each day for work. I'm hoping it will give her a sense of contribution as she often paces or stands by and watches when I get ready for work.
At the end of the day, I redeemed some Stripes rewards for TGIFriday's and ate like a hog whilst working on my genealogy project. Being that my last name is Jaeger, very German indeed, I figured I could try to hunt down the family line when I'm in the motherland. My mother's side also has a good slug of German, but my maternal extended family paid for a real genealogist to trace that down. Her father's side is actually pretty well publicly documented too. My father's paternal side, though, is a bit of a mystery because the Jaeger that emigrated from Germany died when his children were younger than 10, and their mother died about 6 or so years after that. He did not talk about his life in Germany, and did not immigrate with any relatives. At best, he had a few friends in Milwaukee, where he immigrated to for work. I'm still working on this, and after interviewing my grandfather I have a lot of leads to follow through on. A mystery is always exciting :)
That's all for now. Gotta sing at church tomorrow, so time for bed.
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