The floormat weighs three pounds?

Who knew that a single rear floor mat weighs three pounds. Even considering that it's one of those heavy rubber ridged ones, three pounds?

It's been a long, hectic day. I worked until 2pm, saying goodbye to everyone I liked. I got home, had about 15 minutes to settle a bit until my neighbor came by and took almost all the food I had left in the house (this is a very good thing!). They also helped me move three boxes into my rental car to drop off at the post office.

I then took the cats to the vet, where I waited for about 1.5 hours until all the paperwork was completed. I got them home, turned right around and got to the post office, where a very nice man helped me get the boxes out of my car, and told me the weights of all three. The first was 39 pounds... a lightweight. The second was 57 pounds, a little more formidable, but still handleable.

The third was 73 pounds. 3 pounds more than the maximum that can be mailed. I knew that the floormats were in there, and certainly taking a couple of them out might slip me below that 70 pound limit. I had no idea that it would only take a single, rear seat floormat to get me to 69.4 pounds. The nice man retaped the living heck out of the box and took it from me. Total for those three boxes - 88 dollars, including 5 bucks for insurance on the megabig box.

After that I got home, loaded up the car again, and headed off for an evening trip to the dump. Goodbye to almost all of Ray's computers (I didn't get the two monitors there yet). There were also about 7 big bags of clothes and clothes-related items that I tossed. It really made a big difference, getting rid of all that stuff.

With all that done I think that I can actually get through tomorrow morning without heaping amounts of stress. I expect one run to Goodwill, one last run to the dump, and a fill up before I return the rental. I think that once I get rid of this terrible headache I have (must be from not eating all day) I'll be up most of the night just trying to get to a place where I can execute all my plans and just go when I get up tomorrow.

You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men, though....