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The Move (part one)
May. 26th, 2006 12:44 amI'm sitting in a (nearly) empty house, with pat and tessa and the cat (and pat's mom, who is sleeping). We're moving vaguely in the direction of a packed car and an even emptier house.
Today. Wow, today. I don't move much. Or at least, I haven't moved much. Certainly not across the country much. So this whole process of life destruction is really wacky. Destruction because we're cutting all those daily links that connect you to a place, like grocery stores and bills and addresses. So yeah, its wacky for me.
We started off by finishing up the packing and beginning the cleaning. The absolutely darling Tessa made the bathroom and kitchen sparkle, for which I will be eternally grateful. And Pat's mom washed the walls, which was amazingly helpful. So we packed. Eventually, I looked out the window and noticed that there was a space right in front, where our mighty U-Haul could go. So Pat's mom went to go move it up the street from its previous location.
This was when we found that the front passenger window had been smashed in. This was also about two hours before all of our moving help was due to show up and pack the truck with a giant hole in the side.
After Pat spent many hours on the phone with various people in connection with said hole, we were finally told we could bring it to a glass place to have the window replaced. While we waited for the truck to be fixed (all told about an hour-and-a-half wait) we played dominoes with our moving buddies -- probably the largest round of dominoes I've played in. 'Twas delightful.
Eventually the truck was gotten and filled. Everything fit well enough. We discovered that the wall next to our bed had been leaking water from the bathroom the whole time we've been living here and that mold from the water had glued the box spring to the wall. Apparently, when they went to move it, the wall actually ripped off with the box. Delightful.
It was really nice to see everyone one last time before we head off into the...sunrise I guess, since we're heading east. Yeah, I'm real tired and real punchy, and yet I just can't sleep yet. Even with a long, long drive ahead of us.
I suppose there's one other unhappy thing that happened today. Sat down at my comp to use up my turns in Kingdom of Loathing and immediately noticed that there was a tiny comet heading for the moons. With the way my luck runs I am certain that the comet will hit and cause new content while we are still driving and without internet, more than likely on monday. Wah!
So yeah. I took a bunch of pics of the move so far, and I'm planning to take more, so eventually you'll all get to see our lovely broken window and our moldy wall. Mabye I'll take a pic of KoL as well.
Today. Wow, today. I don't move much. Or at least, I haven't moved much. Certainly not across the country much. So this whole process of life destruction is really wacky. Destruction because we're cutting all those daily links that connect you to a place, like grocery stores and bills and addresses. So yeah, its wacky for me.
We started off by finishing up the packing and beginning the cleaning. The absolutely darling Tessa made the bathroom and kitchen sparkle, for which I will be eternally grateful. And Pat's mom washed the walls, which was amazingly helpful. So we packed. Eventually, I looked out the window and noticed that there was a space right in front, where our mighty U-Haul could go. So Pat's mom went to go move it up the street from its previous location.
This was when we found that the front passenger window had been smashed in. This was also about two hours before all of our moving help was due to show up and pack the truck with a giant hole in the side.
After Pat spent many hours on the phone with various people in connection with said hole, we were finally told we could bring it to a glass place to have the window replaced. While we waited for the truck to be fixed (all told about an hour-and-a-half wait) we played dominoes with our moving buddies -- probably the largest round of dominoes I've played in. 'Twas delightful.
Eventually the truck was gotten and filled. Everything fit well enough. We discovered that the wall next to our bed had been leaking water from the bathroom the whole time we've been living here and that mold from the water had glued the box spring to the wall. Apparently, when they went to move it, the wall actually ripped off with the box. Delightful.
It was really nice to see everyone one last time before we head off into the...sunrise I guess, since we're heading east. Yeah, I'm real tired and real punchy, and yet I just can't sleep yet. Even with a long, long drive ahead of us.
I suppose there's one other unhappy thing that happened today. Sat down at my comp to use up my turns in Kingdom of Loathing and immediately noticed that there was a tiny comet heading for the moons. With the way my luck runs I am certain that the comet will hit and cause new content while we are still driving and without internet, more than likely on monday. Wah!
So yeah. I took a bunch of pics of the move so far, and I'm planning to take more, so eventually you'll all get to see our lovely broken window and our moldy wall. Mabye I'll take a pic of KoL as well.
