I’ve been quite remiss in blogging lately but I’ve been consumed by the move. I spent over a month slowly packing up the house and then had a mad dash the last two days to pack the remaining items (ie the kitchen and our clothes) up. Last Saturday was moving day and we had planned on having a moving truck, my father’s trailer, and my father to assist. What happened was that we woke up to cloudy and drizzling skies and my father calling to say he was running late. Hours late in fact, and he didn’t bring the trailer. We picked up our rental truck and started to load. It’s amazing how many boxes you don’t realize you have until you have to haul them out to a truck. We managed to get most of the boxes in the truck before our $20 an hour movers arrived to help with the heavy stuff. They cost us $90 total and were well worth it but the pace definitely slowed down after they arrived. My father finally arrived with his brother and the hand trucks. We managed to fill the entire moving truck up in 5 hours. The drive between our old house and our new apartment takes about two hours and it took another two hours to unload everything. We simply dumped stuff where it would fit and decided to sort it out later. We only had the rental truck for the day to Sunday we had to use our vehicles to haul the rest of our stuff to the new apartment. It took us two trips with two small SUVs and we still have stuff in the house! I plan on getting it out before doing our final walk through Thursday.
The past two days have been spent setting up the bedroom and kitchen. Everything else will slowly be sorted out over the next couple weeks. I don’t feel settled in yet but at least we have the move itself behind us. We will definitely have to downsize to fit into this apartment but I’m okay with that. Mostly because I know we will have to move again and I want to have as little stuff as possible!
So glad to hear you are (almost) through the move. I hate the whole process of moving. I’ve only moved 4-5 times but I think it rained each and every time. YUCK! Good luck in the new place! =]
Yah! Your back! Glad the move went well…well you know, as good as moving can be x
Oh, I feel your pain. I just recently did a move, and moving SUCKS. Its so the opposite of fun. Giving birth is more fun than moving. Seriously. When I moved we had a distance of 8 hours between our old and new place, and we ran out of room in the rental truck. Thats right, we had to make two trips. Thats 8 hours there and back and there and back. Ugh!
gorgeous picture by the way.
Moving is one of the hardest things ever … I’ve done it too many times to count! Think my hardest move was this last one. Moved from Southern California (Costa Mesa) to Portland, Oregon. Thank goodness we had movers. I had lived in Costa Mesa for 16 years and, needless to say, I had accumulated many memories, friends, things, etc. We had a bunch of yard sales, many tears saying goodbye and were on our way!
Loving living in Portland, but miss my friends a lot … first, thanks for talking about moving, it was good for me to write this and second, congratulations on your move! Hope it’s a good place for your creativity!