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lifting_heavy_things2011-05-15 10:24 pm
azurelunatic) wrote in lifting_heavy_things2011-05-15 10:24 pm
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Futon frame
According to the internet, the futon frame from my old and very broken bed is about 80 pounds. The thing is bulky and unwieldy and inconvenient, and just about at the limit of what I can pick up one-handed with a straight arm when deeply annoyed, but I can, and I did, and I hauled that sucker out of my apartment by my own self (I'd planned for it to be removed by the fellows delivering the new bed, but I learned quite belatedly that they don't take away futon frames unless they've been taken apart) and laid it gently atop the freakin' dumpster.
I stopped and rested several times, and alternated hands -- I possibly could have done it all in one go, but I wanted to be kind to my body -- and I was successful, and I did it.
I'm not yet quite in the headspace where the triumph over doing it myself is overriding the annoyance of my confounded expectations, but it's starting to get there.
I stopped and rested several times, and alternated hands -- I possibly could have done it all in one go, but I wanted to be kind to my body -- and I was successful, and I did it.
I'm not yet quite in the headspace where the triumph over doing it myself is overriding the annoyance of my confounded expectations, but it's starting to get there.