Avert Your Eyes If The Word “Sex” Offends You

The moving company is coming on Monday to pack up all our shit.  And when I say they “pack” for us, I mean they actually come into my home and daintily wrap all my knick-knacks and wine glasses in bubble wrap before placing them in boxes.  It’s part of the relocation package, and I’m not complaining at all.

Last time we moved, it was from a crappy little upstairs apartment into our house.  I was pregnant with Julie, and a baby practically escaped from my hoo-haw much too early on the stairs from the strain of moving all that stuff into our house.   Which still looked nearly empty by the end of the day, I might add.  I had been the one to pack up nearly everything, which wasn’t all that much, and I pretty much single-handedly unpacked all of it into our new home as well.

This time, it’s different.  Not only is the moving company responsible for packing all of our stuff up for us, but because they’re insured, if I happen to pack a box or two, they’re going to unpack and repack it to make sure it’s up to their standards.  For real.

My dance students (all adults, no kids… you’ll see why that’s relevant in a second) have all been really impressed that I can just spend the day in pajamas if I so wish while big, burly men unpack my cupboards full of office and school supplies and stick all that crap into boxes for me.  They’ve all told me how nice that’s going to be.

And you know what has poured out of my mouth nearly every time?

“Yeah, it’s really cool, except I keep thinking, ‘how the heck am I going to hide all of our sex toys and my naughty underwear and James’ Playboy collection and shit?’”.

Yes.  Yes, I say that.

And I keep kicking myself in the butt and telling myself, “Dude, Tamra, what is wrong with you?  You don’t just tell everyone that sort of thing!”.

And I am so horribly amused by my own lack of ability to censor myself that I decide to write about this on my blog, which gets an insane number of page hits a day so that all of my readers know we have a set of fuzzy handcuffs and a paddle and all kinds of fun toys hidden in our drawers.

Oh my gawd, someone stop me. The brutal honesty is pouring out of me like a bad case of the ultra-fiber-diet-induced shits and I just can’t hold it back.

Um, I’m dreaming that I just wrote that, right?  More coffee, please.

I asked the moving company if I had some *cough* personal items that I didn’t want seen, would it be okay if I packed them myself?  The sweet lady on the phone said, “Oh sure, just mark the box ‘private’ and they won’t open it.”

And all I could think was,  “Is going to matter?  How much you wanna bet I’ll still be standing there guarding that box with my husband’s ninja sword braced between my hands and warning the movers to stay away from our naughty box lest they be subjected to a pile of flavored lubes.”

Maybe by next week I’ll develop a little self control.

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10 Responses to “Avert Your Eyes If The Word “Sex” Offends You”

  1. Erin Says:

    Oh Tamra you make me laught, I love your blog. Good deal on the marking the boxes private. I wonder though how many things these moving guys have already seen anyways?

  2. LaRaeven Says:

    Pack it all in a box and mail it to your new residence if you want your privacy. Marked private pretty much says “hey look in here!” But on the other hand they move stuff all the time so it probably wouldn’t phase them at all.

  3. Mica Says:

    Tamra darling, you’ve had 28 years to develop self-control and it hasn’t happened yet, do you really think it’ll magically happen over the weekend? I’m just saying….Besides it’s part of your charm and we love you for it!

  4. Misty Says:

    BWAHAHAAA awesome!!!

  5. Rikki Says:

    If I were the mover and saw a box marked private I’d so peek, lol! I’m nosy like that.

  6. J Says:

    i bet they see that kind of thing all the time. prob’ly even own some of it themselves. you’ll just go down as another funny story to tell their wives when they get home, and they’ll promptly forget about you. i wouldn’t worry about it too much. :) although if it was me, i’d put it in a suitcase or something and leave it in my car so i could bring it up there myself. :)

  7. Sally Says:

    I’m with J. I would put it in a suitcase or a box in the car or something until after they have everything packed, then I would bring it back in and mark it private. When we moved I had to bring all of Chance’s Playboys before so my parents wouldn’t see them when they helped. My dad would probably try to steal them and my mom would flip completely out! : ) lol

  8. Kathryn-the-Great Says:

    Tee hee, when I was in school and the police had to search our apartment (because of the crazy roommate) we were so embarassed because we all had toys stashed away, and they searched the whole place… Nothing they haven’t seen before I’m sure!

  9. Kimberlee Says:

    You are freaking hilarious! I love how incredibly honest you are!

    Let me know how your box marked Private goes….

  10. Rosanne Says:

    Again – F-’em if they can’t take a joke.

    I have such trouble with these captcha things – I apparently don’t see what they want me to see. Fortunately, I’m persistent and you’re worth it.