38

So we have obtained two bids from movers to take our stuff from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Austin, Texas. We have one from Atlas Moving (Alexander Van Lines) and United (Suddath). So keep in mind that this involved having the representative visit my apartment to assess its contents and then visit Rob’s 3-bedroom house to view its contents and listen to our input regarding what is going to move vs. what is not.

Besides providing a dollar estimate, they also provide overall weight of our stuff in pounds…. and the bids of the two competitors only differed by 38 pounds! Is that not astounding?!

35.7

Number of inches of snow we’ve had in February so far. Snowiest on record. Likely to also be "38” by the time February ends.

3

Today I decided to pool together and organize the contents of both bathrooms. We have three hair dryers and three tubes of antibiotic ointment.

Bathrooms aside, I’m pretty sure I also have three shovels, one of which is mini which I keep in the car in case I have to shovel my way out of parking space (see “35.7” above).

8

Number of sunblock bottles. Except during trips to exotic locales, they don’t get used a whole lot here in the godforsaken hellhole of MN. Plan to use more often in TX.

Eight is also the number of seconds for this Texas Toad to sing his thing.