We did it! We moved!!!!
Jul. 8th, 2022 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaSo we finally learned that we were going to move on the first! ...except then it got delayed to the second! But then we finally got to spend the whole long weekend hauling boxes and struggling to move furniture! (The furniture was a real adventure - Z did noooot want to drive a U-haul, but it's impossible find last-minute movers in June or a friend with a car that can fit a mattress, so he very kindly sucked it up and we moved most of my furniture in it. After almost giving up because his hand started to give out from exhaustion, and after I had to literally run to our new place to get screwdrivers. One of his friends showed up at the end to help out, and a Good Samaritan helped us with the couch, too.) We finished in time to go watch fireworks from afar with some friends and unwind before going back to work.
There is still a lot of unpacking that needs to get done, of course - and cleaning, too, this place was not left in the neatest condition. We also have had to rearrange it a lot; we shifted two queen boxsprings and bedframes and a mattress and a metal futon into the basement to make room for my furniture, and today we had to shift the washer into storage too to make room for our portable clothes washer. (The machines already here are coin-operated. The landlord said he'd change them since it's just us, but judging by how long it took anything to happen in Z's old place, we figured that we'd like to be able to do laundry sometime in the next few months.) But we are making progress, and the kitchen is mostly in place, which is very important. We can make meals! We can run the blender any hour of the day we want if I feel like making mango lassi at 11pm!
We were without much internet for a couple of days - real fun trying to attend meetings on Zoom on a flickering mobile connection where I could hear one-third of what was said - but the tech they sent out was very kind and helpful. Last time I issues with our ISP, they told me to install theirmalware program to let them control my computer because that was absolutely the only way they could check my router settings and the problem could absolutely be nothing else (and I couldn't install it anyway because I had no internet to download with), so that was a nice change of pace.
I am thinking of what to plant for an autumn garden harvest and trying to figure out how much sunlight each part of the yard gets. We had to go to the hardware store today, so I picked up a lemon mint on sale to add to an empty container and go with my other contained mints. We are already enjoying the views on the yard because there's always a chipmunk or robin or cute bunny running around back there to watch.
Koro the cat was, of course, very upset to be moving, but he's calmed down considerably and is enjoying the basement. We'll let him explore the rest of the house when there's less trouble for him to get into by poking into everything not yet unpacked.
Also, a final strange update from the manager of my old place - she asked if I had any maintenance issues to report while we were doing the move-out survey, and I was like, 'uh, the furnace issues that you never fixed?'. And she went, 'wait, they never came to add insulation? Because we got billed for it'. Anyway, that's not my problem to deal with any longer! I hope they get my security deposit back to me quickly and I never again have to contact them.
(Oh, and my insurance got borked again. I could almost hear the scream of frustration from the HR person who is trying to help me. Fingers crossed that the update next week fixes it for real really.)
There is still a lot of unpacking that needs to get done, of course - and cleaning, too, this place was not left in the neatest condition. We also have had to rearrange it a lot; we shifted two queen boxsprings and bedframes and a mattress and a metal futon into the basement to make room for my furniture, and today we had to shift the washer into storage too to make room for our portable clothes washer. (The machines already here are coin-operated. The landlord said he'd change them since it's just us, but judging by how long it took anything to happen in Z's old place, we figured that we'd like to be able to do laundry sometime in the next few months.) But we are making progress, and the kitchen is mostly in place, which is very important. We can make meals! We can run the blender any hour of the day we want if I feel like making mango lassi at 11pm!
We were without much internet for a couple of days - real fun trying to attend meetings on Zoom on a flickering mobile connection where I could hear one-third of what was said - but the tech they sent out was very kind and helpful. Last time I issues with our ISP, they told me to install their
I am thinking of what to plant for an autumn garden harvest and trying to figure out how much sunlight each part of the yard gets. We had to go to the hardware store today, so I picked up a lemon mint on sale to add to an empty container and go with my other contained mints. We are already enjoying the views on the yard because there's always a chipmunk or robin or cute bunny running around back there to watch.
Koro the cat was, of course, very upset to be moving, but he's calmed down considerably and is enjoying the basement. We'll let him explore the rest of the house when there's less trouble for him to get into by poking into everything not yet unpacked.
Also, a final strange update from the manager of my old place - she asked if I had any maintenance issues to report while we were doing the move-out survey, and I was like, 'uh, the furnace issues that you never fixed?'. And she went, 'wait, they never came to add insulation? Because we got billed for it'. Anyway, that's not my problem to deal with any longer! I hope they get my security deposit back to me quickly and I never again have to contact them.
(Oh, and my insurance got borked again. I could almost hear the scream of frustration from the HR person who is trying to help me. Fingers crossed that the update next week fixes it for real really.)
