The only "Sure Thing?" Moving stinks

Hurray for the cable guy, I'm finally back online after my long move. Actually, it was a move of about two miles, but you try packing and unpacking 236 DVDs of 80s movies in 48 hours. Still looking for my copy of "The Sure Thing." I'll cry myself to sleep tonight if I don't find it by sundown.

Having just completed my first move in 8 years, I'm suddenly feeling empathy toward Tom Hanks' character in "The Money Pit," a movie I absolutely depised and couldn't connect with until my fourth trip to Target yesterday. (Not a good thing when the cashiers all know you by your first name and noticed that you've changed shirts twice during the day.)

Thanks to all the well-wishers out there concerned over my physical and mental well-being over the last few days. I can report no scrapes, bumps, broken bones or other ailments at this time. However, I'm pretty sure my downstairs neighbors will beat me to a pulp if they have to endure another two days of listening to me drop boxes and smash into walls all hours of the night.

For now, just a quickie list.

TOP 5 "OH, I HEAR YA" QUOTES FROM THE MONEY PIT:

5. "That's why I've gotta sell the house. It turns out, Carlos was Hitler's pool man."

4. "UP and DOWN, UP and DOWN! Strong strokes! PAINT! Don't tickle. And don't smoke!"

3. "Here lies Walter Fielding. He bought a house, and it killed him."

2. "I'm speaking so loud I'm hallucinating! For a while, I thought the Care Bears were here!"

1. "Ahh, home crap home!"

Comments

[Walter Cox]

I like the part where the tub breaks through the floor and Walter has that crazy laughing fit.

[Marissa]

Steve, I'm glad you survived your move into the bachelor penthouse pad.

I'd offer to bring my copy of "The Sure Thing" over for viewing, but I'm certain I can't get there before sunset. Good luck!

[VineyardWoman]

Glad you survived the move! And I can sympathize with your 4 trips to Target in a single day. Just wait until you're a homeowner...those Target trips turn into 4 trips to Lowe's/Home Depot! (And yes...everyone there knows my name! There, and the liquor store. Coincidence?)

Also, I have to throw in another line - phrase, actually - from The Money Pit that anyone who has ever worked with a contractor understands: "Two Weeks" as the response to how long it will take to complete ANY project, regardless of the scope. I actually watched this movie holed up in my room while the contractors had my entire downstairs "under construction" during week FIVE of a "two week" project. Brought tears to my eyes...

[Miguel]

Your lost made me think how important it may be to own The Sure Thing, so i`m going to watch it tonight in your honour.Ah!Ah!
I loved The Money Pit when i was a kid, i rewatched it on cable a couple of years ago and it was really,really bad!

[jane]

Four trips to Target in one day? I think that even beats my record.

Glad to know you and all your worldly possessions made it to the new digs in one piece.

[Eric62]

Could be worse. The cashiers could have noticed you for NOT changing shirts twice on a day of moving in sunny and humid Florida.

[Brad]

A bit of musical trivia for you. When Shelley is playing viola in this movie, she's basically playing all the recognizable viola parts ever written all glommed together.

(These are the things you learn when you manage a theater with your sister, who also plays viola.)

[Marissa]

In other 80s movie related news: I'm watching, "BLUE VELVET" and totally reliving the first creeped out feeling I had. ::shudder::

[JIM]

Best line: "Just tell me that you slept with him and I won't be angry."
Fine, I slept with him. SL@T!!!!"

[Marissa]

Sorry I jumped the thread, but some things are just too disturbing not to share.

Brad, who would have guessed that the Money Pit would toss in a scant amount of culture.

[Bassnote]

I hated the movie The Money Pit. I refuse to ever watch it again, even though I am a home owner who is selling his house. Two words describe why I hate this movie.. Shelly Long. I like Tom Hanks, but he was wasted on this movie.

[Jeff in Cuba]

As a frequent mover (I'm in my 11th house since I joined the Navy in '86), I've come to embrace the cleansing quality of a move. Nothing inspires you to toss things out quite like the prospect of having to pack, move and unpack them.

We've been in our house in Cuba for almost 4 years now (a family record) and I'm starting the feel the urge to move!

[Spears]

Oh, there has been plenty of cleansing. A practical enema of cleansing in this move. Already victim: my three signed sports jerseys are going into storage and possibly eBay.

Also, it appears my desktop computer won't be compatible with this place, so it may find an early retirement in favor of the PC laptop I inherited from my dad, which I'm using now.

NOT in danger: All my DVDs, my Hemingway color print from Cuba and my life-sized poster of Molly Ringwald from The Pick Up Artist.

[Jeff in Cuba]

Some things are beyond cleansing.

For the last 5 moves, we've been hauling around a plastic tote filled with Washington Redskins merchandise: Paper plates, balloons, streamers, napkins, everything you'd need to throw a big Redskins party.

Harriot is saving it for the 'Skins next trip to the Super Bowl. When (if) that day arrives, and we crack open that box, it will probably all disintegrate like the Dea Sea Scrolls.

Nonetheless, I know with religious certainty that when we leave Cuba, that box will leave with us.

[Marissa]

I purged my life of everything but the shirts on our backs and photos when we moved from Georgia back to Illinois. OK, our clothes and my upteen pairs of shoes. A girl has priorities, ya know.

[jane]

HA! Jeff, I have a similar box that I've been hauling around from place to place for 15 years, containing books and my notes from my English grad school studies. I shudder to think what's in that box, given the fact that it's been stored in a garage in humid, hot Florida for 12 of those 15 years.

However, I just can't give it up, despite the fact that I'm sure the notebooks are most likely completely unreadable and the books are a hot mess.

[Walter Cox]

I remember how, back in the day, everything I needed or cared about could fit in the back of a 1989 Ford Escort

[Spears]

I'm at the stage where everything fits in a mid-sized moving van. Short of selling furniture, that's the best i can do.

[Carla]

Walter... You nailed it!! The only reason I would watch The Money Pit, is for the part where Tom Hanks cracks up when the bathtub falls through the floor! LOL, I can hear it now!! Hilarious!!

Close second... when the racoon or whatever it was, jumps out of the d-waiter onto Shelly Long! LOL

[Spears]

I always liked the scene where he pats the cement cherub on the butt to get him "peeing again" with water.

[Emily]

We're moving in three weeks. I fully expect some full-blown verbal stoushes with my husband and divorce threats. I haven't even started packing.

I luuurve the Money Pit!

[specialkness]

Oh Jeff the joys of moving with the military!
I was just out in our storage closet digging through rubbermaid containers and actually FORGOT why I went out there in the first place! The joys and benefits of rubber maid!
I did find more stuff to throw away... good thing kidlets are at school today. If they saw it all of a sudden all these wonderful memories come flooding back even if they haven't seen the stuff in years!

[Former Producer Dave]

Steve, since you're all moved in, I guess I can come back to Florida. Is the beer cold? Dave

[Spears]

Hey Dave -- you can help me hang my collection of framed Duran Duran posters on the wall.

[funcatholicgirl]

Come on Money Pit is a great movie.
Best lines from movie:

Walter: It's a big house, we'll divide it up! You stay in your half, I'll stay in mine!
Anna: That is such a dumb idea. Sometimes it amazes me you ever passed the bar.
Walter: I'm sure it does, you've never passed a bar in you life.
Anna: You are so much less attractive when I'm sober.
Walter: Thank goodness it's not that often.