I stayed home from work today to sleep. I slept for 12 hours. I am so physically and mentally exhausted from moving it's killing me. And making me lose weight. :)
Well, I would say we are 85% done so we're almost there!! I just have to make it through 2 days of work (it's been pretty stressful at work too -- enough for my jaw problems to come back) and then we have a looong weekend including a half-day on Friday and a day off on Memorial Day, yay!
Last Friday we stayed up to get the house as ready as possible for the movers. We didn't get to finish packing as much stuff as we wanted since we didn't have enough boxes but we got to a good start. The movers came on Saturday morning at 8:45AM. They moved for about 6 hours straight while Steve and I did some last minute packing and started moving smaller boxes, stuff we wanted to take over ourselves. The movers also lent us some wardrobe boxes so a lot of our time was spent packing those up and unpacking them at the new place.
After a long (hot!) day of moving and monitoring things coming in and out of the truck, we tried to clean up the new place as much as possible to make it liveable. I think the dogs were confused because both apartments were such a mess. They were still really anxious about the new place and felt more comfortable at the old place even though it was empty. We dropped the dogs off at Roxbury (since they were too barky at the new place) and went to Ikea. We bought a wardrobe, computer desk, hall closet and a shoe storage system. It was 110 degrees in the valley and by the time we carried everything out and packed the car, it was pretty late in the afternoon. Then we went home and Yusuke and Vina came over to help make some of the furniture.
That evening Steve built the bed (not an easy feat, that thing is huge and heavy!) and I went back to the old place to do some laundry, bring some more stuff over and bring over the sheets.
On Sunday we continued on with furniture making and I started unpacking. Then we went to Target to buy some stuff like contact paper for the kitchen and some screws/tools we were missing. I've forgotten how complicated and difficult Ikea furniture can be. Mark my words this is definitely the last time I'm buying Ikea furniture. I also put new contact paper on all of the kitchen shelves/drawers which took a good 2 hours.
Yesterday I left work early to go home and check on Lulu. She has been barking so much at the new place that we had to get her a static collar. :( I was scared leaving her alone at home for the first time wearing the collar so I came back around 2. So I worked from home for a few hours, then when Steve came home we finished building the rest of the Ikea furniture.
We took a break around 8pm when Elaine came over to practice some Wii bowling. We ate some Ralph's chicken (been eating Ralph's chicken all weekend!) and she left around 10pm. Since the wardrobe in the room was finally built, I unpacked the rest of my clothes, jeans and bags and started putting them away. I can't believe how much clothes I still have, even after putting 5 TRASH BAGS aside to sell/donate to Goodwill. Steve went to Roxbury to pick up our bikes and then we brought them up to the new place. We finally went to sleep around 3AM.
Ahh, I guess it's no wonder I woke up today with extreme exhaustion. I slept til about 2PM. Tofu kept trying to wake me up to play but Lulu and I ignored her. At about 2:30 I was feeling very awake and energized and decided to take the dogs for a walk around the corner to get something to eat. Not the best idea. The dogs were so excited and pulled the leash so much it took what energy I had left to control them. When I went home, I took another nap.
Now it's almost 6PM and I'm preparing myself for another round of moving. When Steve gets back we're going to eat at Soup Plantation (just 1 block away!) and then going to Roxbury for another round to pick up all of our kitchen stuff. It's been so hard living half and half like this... my clothes are here but my makeup is there. Our dishes are here but our silverware is there. Our TV is here but our computers are there.
I really, really, really can't wait until we're done moving! I swear after this we are moving into a permanent house and never moving again. Takes way too much energy when you have this much furniture -- I don't know how Mommy did it when we were growing up! We used to move so often.
Oh and I took some pictures, just gotta go to the old place and find my camera cable so I can start uploading them. :)
Well, I would say we are 85% done so we're almost there!! I just have to make it through 2 days of work (it's been pretty stressful at work too -- enough for my jaw problems to come back) and then we have a looong weekend including a half-day on Friday and a day off on Memorial Day, yay!
Last Friday we stayed up to get the house as ready as possible for the movers. We didn't get to finish packing as much stuff as we wanted since we didn't have enough boxes but we got to a good start. The movers came on Saturday morning at 8:45AM. They moved for about 6 hours straight while Steve and I did some last minute packing and started moving smaller boxes, stuff we wanted to take over ourselves. The movers also lent us some wardrobe boxes so a lot of our time was spent packing those up and unpacking them at the new place.
After a long (hot!) day of moving and monitoring things coming in and out of the truck, we tried to clean up the new place as much as possible to make it liveable. I think the dogs were confused because both apartments were such a mess. They were still really anxious about the new place and felt more comfortable at the old place even though it was empty. We dropped the dogs off at Roxbury (since they were too barky at the new place) and went to Ikea. We bought a wardrobe, computer desk, hall closet and a shoe storage system. It was 110 degrees in the valley and by the time we carried everything out and packed the car, it was pretty late in the afternoon. Then we went home and Yusuke and Vina came over to help make some of the furniture.
That evening Steve built the bed (not an easy feat, that thing is huge and heavy!) and I went back to the old place to do some laundry, bring some more stuff over and bring over the sheets.
On Sunday we continued on with furniture making and I started unpacking. Then we went to Target to buy some stuff like contact paper for the kitchen and some screws/tools we were missing. I've forgotten how complicated and difficult Ikea furniture can be. Mark my words this is definitely the last time I'm buying Ikea furniture. I also put new contact paper on all of the kitchen shelves/drawers which took a good 2 hours.
Yesterday I left work early to go home and check on Lulu. She has been barking so much at the new place that we had to get her a static collar. :( I was scared leaving her alone at home for the first time wearing the collar so I came back around 2. So I worked from home for a few hours, then when Steve came home we finished building the rest of the Ikea furniture.
We took a break around 8pm when Elaine came over to practice some Wii bowling. We ate some Ralph's chicken (been eating Ralph's chicken all weekend!) and she left around 10pm. Since the wardrobe in the room was finally built, I unpacked the rest of my clothes, jeans and bags and started putting them away. I can't believe how much clothes I still have, even after putting 5 TRASH BAGS aside to sell/donate to Goodwill. Steve went to Roxbury to pick up our bikes and then we brought them up to the new place. We finally went to sleep around 3AM.
Ahh, I guess it's no wonder I woke up today with extreme exhaustion. I slept til about 2PM. Tofu kept trying to wake me up to play but Lulu and I ignored her. At about 2:30 I was feeling very awake and energized and decided to take the dogs for a walk around the corner to get something to eat. Not the best idea. The dogs were so excited and pulled the leash so much it took what energy I had left to control them. When I went home, I took another nap.
Now it's almost 6PM and I'm preparing myself for another round of moving. When Steve gets back we're going to eat at Soup Plantation (just 1 block away!) and then going to Roxbury for another round to pick up all of our kitchen stuff. It's been so hard living half and half like this... my clothes are here but my makeup is there. Our dishes are here but our silverware is there. Our TV is here but our computers are there.
I really, really, really can't wait until we're done moving! I swear after this we are moving into a permanent house and never moving again. Takes way too much energy when you have this much furniture -- I don't know how Mommy did it when we were growing up! We used to move so often.
Oh and I took some pictures, just gotta go to the old place and find my camera cable so I can start uploading them. :)
1 comments:
that sounds tiring +_+ seems like you're done now though? and the heat must have made it worst! its like 50 degrees here!
thats what you always say about ikea furniture now then you'll forget again!
yeah i dont remember how we did it so many times. i only remember daddy putting things together. the rest is a blur haha
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