Awesome friends help you move freezers!

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Well, most times on the weekend I can spend one day just veggie in front of the computer, and maybe do a lot of mylotting. Not this weekend. Tomorrow we have to go out to the roomie's folks so she can see the niece that lives out of state, who's here for a visit. But today we arranged to work on the "cat room." Used to be, we had the cat boxes in the cat room, but last summer, when the roomie was coming home to work, we needed a safe place to put stuff that the cats couldn't ruin, and so we took the boxes out of the cat room and the stuff in the cat room. Now, this was a YEAR ago, mind you... So, those boxes have been moved around, and more stuff has been put in there, and so on, and so on. Meanwhile, the freezer, that is also in there, has started a most annoying round of beeping. Well, the service guy that came for the fridge, said that the fridge needed to be cleaned of cat fur, so we figured the freezer needed it too. So, a very dear friend, "J", came over and helped us. Understand, that the roomie and I are not in good shape and while she's a strapping gal, I'm only 5 feet tall. "J" is a guy, and in much better shape than either of us. He pulled all the boxes out of the room, and moved around the freezer and cleaned it. Meanwhile, I was repacking the boxes. All books, all video tapes, all craft stuff, etc. It only took about an hour and a half to get the room to the point where we could run off to Walmart to pick up a few things we needed. Now, some of these objects could've waited until another day, but one item was really needed, and that was an extension cord so we could plug the freezer into a different plug - outside the cat room. Now, understand, I have 2 big refrigerators, I know, weird, and 2 small fridges for mostly soft drinks and the roomie's meds. And a big standing freezer. We moved the freezer out of the cat room and put it next to (back to side) of the bigger of the 2 fridges. We ran the plug behind the fridge to the freezer. Now we can pull them both out and clean behind them at the same time. Then "J" helped put the now repacked boxes back into the "cat room." We took a few things to Goodwill, we threw a BUNCH of stuff away or recycled them. So, there is NO way we could've done this ourselves in one day, probably couldn't have done it even in 2 days, considering how much we hurt NOW. Yes, we would've probably taken longer than 2 days, but we'd've still needed to get the boxes out and then what would keep them safe from these bad cats? So, "J" is our hero of the day! Probably of the SUMMER! Now, if we can free up a whole weekend, a few more friends and do my front room!