i have a small window of opportunity here to make a post.
it has been a tough day. and it is not yet over.
it has been pouring down rain all day. about 30 minutes ago, around 4:30, the sky cleared and the sun shone.
dan picked up the uhaul in the pouring rain and with some very kind help from friends, loaded the truck up in the pouring rain.
another friend came with her van and loaded that up with boxes in the pouring rain.
i in the mean time scrambled around the house stuffing boxes with everything that remained, and cleaning up the scary dust bunnies and bug carcasses that were found behind shelves that hadn't been moved for three years. the pouring rain came inside on everyone's shoes, along with lots of autumn leaves.
things still remain, and quite a few things at that. but really, we are probably 95% there. even though i wasn't doing any of the lifting, i hit a wall in the early afternoon and curled up on the lambswool and started to weep. i couldn't bring myself to fill another box, or sweep another corner of dust bunnies, or use my brain which was struggling to remain sane within my aching head.
dan and tashi (who was happily sitting in the front seat of the uhaul) drove off to the new house to unload, along with two friends in their respective packed vehicles. i stayed behind to chill on the only soft surface in the house, a thermarest. i dozed off for a small while. loki came out of hiding from the closet and curled up next to me. i'm glad i stayed behind so that he at least could have some reassurance that we were not abandoning him.
dan will return in a bit with the uhaul. we will return it to the uhaul farm. we will load up two cars with boxes and food and cats that remain and drive up to our new home to start living there. we will be back down to the blue house over the coarse of the week to pick up the last few lingering items, because we have a week overlap between the two places, both a luxury and curse.
we are almost there.
6 comments:
Hope all is going well!! How nice it will be to settle in and nest in your new place!!
Owww ... so sorry that whoever was in charge of "weather fatigue" for the day wasn't too kind to you all yesterday. And hope you did manage to get rid of that headache for today. So you HAVE now spent your first night there, and hope all went well camping amongst all the boxes which I hope you will take your time unpacking. Hope Sunday was good to you all, that Dan is OK after all the heavy lifting, and that YOU are ok in other ways (and we all know that Tashi will have loved moving)!
Moving :(
I know all about moving.....being in the military and doing it every two years for lots of years....
Our last move being this past April. I know what :( you are going through. But soon you will be settled and enjoying it all. Soon you will start decorating and getting baby's room ready.
We have lots of birthdays in April isn't that your due month?
Wishing you all the very best in your new place.
And through it all is your old trusty white Subaru, which would write its own blog of all the adventures you have put it through, if it could.
Boy, did it ever rain on Saturday! Moving in the rain is never fun, but now the huge haul is over and just the remnants remain at ye olde blue. I would have a headache myself after all of that stress! Hope today is better, you're 90% there!
Change!!!!!!!!!!!!
Moving is so hard, even without pouring rain. Congrats on your new place, good luck with the unpacking!
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