Done and Done
Today is Saturday, the 3rd of February.
Today is the third day that I am completely and fully moved in with Alex.
On Saturday, the 27th of January, we (meaning Alex, Mike, Mal and I) finished off one of the easiest moves I've ever been a part of. We (Alex and I) had been, over the course of the last four or so months, been getting stuff out of my apartment, starting in October or so. Comic books, bookshelves, the computer, the dresser, etc. Every couple of days, we'd swing by my apartment and get a couple of armfuls or a carful of stuff to bring over. Slowly, but surely, the apartment began to empty itself out.
By the time the Thursday before hit, we only had maybe a carful of stuff to empty out, not counting the big stuff we'd need a U-Haul to do (Uha! Ul!) and my mom and sister came over to help me clean the place up.
Well, I say "help"...but I was still battling a bug (which I'm still finishing off) which made my mom say "no - you lay on the couch - you're too sick to help." So really, they did while I rested.
Anyway, most of the place was clean by Saturday and we get to the aforementioned move. Actually, the hardest part was getting the truck. Did you know UHaul actually asked for the name and phone number of "a person who is not helping with the move?" When I asked why, they said it was for insurance purposes. They then proceeded to call my mom at 730 AM to verify that yes, I wasn't a Libyan terrorist or something.
Anyway...
I got the truck and was back to my place at 8AM with Mike and Mal and Alex just arriving. We had everything packed in the truck by 930 and headed out. (Like I said, we only had a few big items to move, everything else was done and gone.) The only bad part was we had to go to 5 different places to drop stuff off, including St. Vincent DePaul’s, my mom's house, Alex's mom's house, etc.
All in all, it was pretty stress free and easy....the truck didn't need a professor of spatial geometry to help get everything loaded in one shot, we had dropped off the truck by 11:30 and had a nice lunch. All in all, very simple and easy.
Oh, and before I forget, a quick shout out of help to my mom, Carie, Mal, Mike and especially Alex for all the help in closing out my apartment.
On Thursday, February 1st, I dropped off the keys. It was a good apartment - actually belonging originally to my friend Elliot - but I had it for 7 years whereas he had it for 18 months. It was my second apartment, but the first one I didn't really love. This one I did.
And while I will miss my old place, I don't for one second regret getting rid of it. I've never lived with anyone before in my life (not counting my family) and living with Alex these last couple of months has been the absolute best.
Today is the third day that I am completely and fully moved in with Alex.
On Saturday, the 27th of January, we (meaning Alex, Mike, Mal and I) finished off one of the easiest moves I've ever been a part of. We (Alex and I) had been, over the course of the last four or so months, been getting stuff out of my apartment, starting in October or so. Comic books, bookshelves, the computer, the dresser, etc. Every couple of days, we'd swing by my apartment and get a couple of armfuls or a carful of stuff to bring over. Slowly, but surely, the apartment began to empty itself out.
By the time the Thursday before hit, we only had maybe a carful of stuff to empty out, not counting the big stuff we'd need a U-Haul to do (Uha! Ul!) and my mom and sister came over to help me clean the place up.
Well, I say "help"...but I was still battling a bug (which I'm still finishing off) which made my mom say "no - you lay on the couch - you're too sick to help." So really, they did while I rested.
Anyway, most of the place was clean by Saturday and we get to the aforementioned move. Actually, the hardest part was getting the truck. Did you know UHaul actually asked for the name and phone number of "a person who is not helping with the move?" When I asked why, they said it was for insurance purposes. They then proceeded to call my mom at 730 AM to verify that yes, I wasn't a Libyan terrorist or something.
Anyway...
I got the truck and was back to my place at 8AM with Mike and Mal and Alex just arriving. We had everything packed in the truck by 930 and headed out. (Like I said, we only had a few big items to move, everything else was done and gone.) The only bad part was we had to go to 5 different places to drop stuff off, including St. Vincent DePaul’s, my mom's house, Alex's mom's house, etc.
All in all, it was pretty stress free and easy....the truck didn't need a professor of spatial geometry to help get everything loaded in one shot, we had dropped off the truck by 11:30 and had a nice lunch. All in all, very simple and easy.
Oh, and before I forget, a quick shout out of help to my mom, Carie, Mal, Mike and especially Alex for all the help in closing out my apartment.
On Thursday, February 1st, I dropped off the keys. It was a good apartment - actually belonging originally to my friend Elliot - but I had it for 7 years whereas he had it for 18 months. It was my second apartment, but the first one I didn't really love. This one I did.
And while I will miss my old place, I don't for one second regret getting rid of it. I've never lived with anyone before in my life (not counting my family) and living with Alex these last couple of months has been the absolute best.
posted by ValhallaOne @ 15:17
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