Maybe not every monday but this one is mighty fine with me. So you are probably thinking that I have made a typo and monday should really read friday? Well this weekend we made the move. Yep, we did it! We moved from Capital Hill and now reside in Ravenna, for how long who can say? After this moving experience I could stay in Ravenna for the rest of my life.
The move itself did not go as smoothly as I had hoped, which is why I am glad that it is Monday and I can sit at my desk, and relax....pure joy. I had arranged for the moving company to arrive at noon. Perfect time? I thought so at the time, until I was informed that they were running late and would be arriving closer to 1pm. Still ok with me. Well 3pm rolls on and a couple of phone calls later, the movers arrive. By this time I am thinking we should just forget it and reschedule? On the other hand, how long can the move really take? Last time we moved we used the same company, Action Moving Company, and they moved us in a record 5.5 hours. Way to go... but this time it took them 8.5 hours....what the hell! I might add that they are paid hourly which works out at quite alot at $85 per hour!
I really don't understand what took them so long? I mean we have an elevator in the building, they parked right out the front, the stuff that was packed was well organized. The only difference between this move and the previous one is that I had gotten serious about book collecting. In the material sense, this meant about 3 bookcases and an extra 100 books. Still not worth the extra time spent.
Just in case you didn't know already, moving is pretty stressing. It is right up there with marriage, divorce and dealing with death. Hey, interesting side note, death can be applied to all the above. Marriage is dying to self, and joining with another; divorce is dying to a part of yourself that you gave to another; and of course dying is exactly that. Which, I can only imagine must be quite stressing, until it happens and then there is not much to stress about? Unless your not the one dying. Interesting....
So with all this stressing going on I can't say it was a real fun time in our household. But by 11pm we were working as a team and trying to get the bed set up so we could crash for the evening. The poor little babies didn't know what was going on. We basically set them up in a room in the basement and let them go for it. I should add that these are ferret babies and not the human kind, I wouldn't want Child Protection knocking on my door only to find this out.
So to shorten a long and tedious story, that is made up of me carrying boxes upstairs and downstairs for 2 days, the place is finally looking pretty good. But it was still great coming to work today knowing that I can sit and do exactly nothing! (Ok so don't tell anyone else that this was my expectation for the day). I guess all is well that ends well.
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