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I hate it when you beat around the bush, rivka. For once, could you just tell us how you feel?
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Tomorrow it will be two weeks in our new home, and while I love the new home, and have gotten used to the drastic decrease in internet speed, having boxes EVERYWHERE and having not even a single room looking tidy is making me nutso.
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I am moving tomorrow. I have confirmed with the movers.
Today so far, instead of actually packing boxes, I have:
Run over to the new place to deal with the phone company. Yay! $125 to have phone jacks installed! (The good news is that my landlord will have to pay it.)
Tried to get my DSL functioning. No joy so far. Good news: fugu is amazing. But you knew that!
Discovered that despite ensuring that I have this piece to connect the hose to the sink, I cannot find this piece to connect the hose to the waterbed. I know I own at least three of the darn things. So, I will be heading out to the waterbed store, 30 minutes away, later.
Not gotten very much packing done. >_< The good news: since it's my parents' house, whatever doesn't get moved tomorrow won't cost me anything but the time and effort of moving it myself.
quote:Run over to the new place to deal with the phone company. Yay! $125 to have phone jacks installed! (The good news is that my landlord will have to pay it.)
D'oh! My dad has the equipment and experience to do this himself.
quote:Tried to get my DSL functioning. No joy so far.
Are you sure you have the right modem? When we moved, they sent a technician out who tried everything, then finally switched the type of modem we were using-- and it instantly worked.
quote:Discovered that despite ensuring that I have this piece to connect the hose to the sink, I cannot find this piece to connect the hose to the waterbed. I know I own at least three of the darn things. So, I will be heading out to the waterbed store, 30 minutes away, later.
Where? Is there one on our side of town that Jeff or my dad could stop by on the way home from work?
Let us try to make it easier for you any way we can. We're out to dinner tonight, but we'll be available in the next week or so if you need us. Really.
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I'm so sorry, rivka - I have not actually looked any further into buying a house simply because I DO NOT want to deal with the packing and unpacking.
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*plaintive* Someone remind me why I thought it was a good idea to move into my parents' place for the year they were away? Is anything worth having to move twice in twelve months?
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Bob moved three times in seven months. I hope he thinks it was worth it. My stuff only moved in the last one, but I was involved in the packing/transporting for all three.
You have our sympathies.
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I feel for you, honey, I do. I can't picture myself going through it again in under a year. In fact, when I moved into the house where I am now, I declared that I would never move again. My heirs will have to deal with the packing up. I'm staying.
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I feel for you. But honestly, I love moving. the feeling of having stuffed everything you own into such a miniscule space, and now having it all there and easily accessible is fantastic. Then, looking into your room/house/domicile and glorying in the space you have! Positively delightful. I always like to imagine that the moving truck explodes and falls into a sudden ravine, totally destroying everything I have. Imagine the freedom! The glorious bouyancy of unattachment! Regardless it sure is stressfull. Good luck.
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TimeTim . . . uh . . . well . . . I'm glad SOMEONE likes moving, I guess. Tell ya what. Next time, you can do it for me. Deal?
Getting to the waterbed place at 8:05 (ridiculous amounts of traffic combined with my confusion as to its location) sucked. Target and Kmart both really meant it when they said they didn't have 'em.
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4 am. I have been trying to get the @#$%^& waterbed to drain for 5+ hours. I remember now why I desperately wanted to start on this yesterday morning -- I always have trouble with this! In fact, last time I swore I was going to buy a pump. I forgot.
That one is $90, and the store is less than an hour's drive away . . . but then I found something better! Uhaul rents the same thing for $8 a day! But they don't open until 7. Well, the movers won't be here until 9 . . . and those pumps are supposed to empty a bed in 20 minutes. This just might work! *plans feverishly*
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I gave up on the siphon about 40 minutes ago, and just left the end of the hose in the shower, so it wouldn't get water everywhere.
I just noticed that the water level in the bed is actually dropping. Not very quickly, and I will still need the pump. But I am amused by the irony.
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I restricted myself to a backpack of clothes, a milk crate of books, and my guitar for most of my early 20's - then I settle down and became a mom, and the gypsy life just ain't a breeze.
I have FURNITURE now for heaven's sake! Including a piano!
Rivka, I'm sorry - you just keep going - that bed will drain in no time! The boxes will fill Mary Poppin's style; and the movers will be timely and gracious . . .
*waves wand and says in favorite Jean-Luc style: Make It So*
*casts jaundiced eye back on monologue and decides more coffee before going to work is definitely needed*
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The co-op program alternated four-month school terms with four-month work terms, with one eight-month stint of school right at the end. I suspect that by this winter I'll be feeling a little antsy, like it's time to move to somewhere new.
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Said the puny mover to the massive truck Do you know what I know?
A pump, a pump squishing with all its might It will make our water bed light. It has made our water bed light.Posts: 516 | Registered: Aug 2004
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Do you see what I see? Do you see what I see?
The books are shelved neatly left to right by their authors and alphabatized Was a librarian here tonight?Posts: 5609 | Registered: Jan 2003
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I'm sorry rivka; I hope things continue to improve during your move. Every single time I've moved I've felt clinically insane for at least a week. We moved 8 months ago and there are still boxes in the basement. But, that's why you buy a house with a basement.
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I might have to move in the next 6-9 months. I guess I should look into some of these boxes from my last move...
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Sadly, I have no basement. I really hope the sofa doesn't get delivered for at least a week; the spot it should inhabit is more than filled with boxes and boxes and yet more boxes!
Hopefully, the housekeeper who is starting work for me tomorrow (and just for this week, is coming twice) can help me get a handle on things.
Not that the books will be alphabetized or anything . . . but maybe on the shelves.
I'm going to go sleep on my just-refilled waterbed. Nighty-night! Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I'm moving into my dorm room right now. I'm sure it's nowhere near as bad as moving into a house, and my parents are helping. Then again, I have to do this twice a year, and I semi-move another two times every year for winter break. Good practice, I guess!
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The guy from the Gas Company is over. (Incidentally, I think he's the same guy who used to come over to my mom's and dad's houses when they needed a technician since, oh, I can remember!) We haven't been able to get the stove or oven working. My dad got the gas flowing to them by opening a series of valves, but they won't start, and while we can manually light a burner, we can't find a way to light a pilot. (The guy has been in here half an hour and is still fiddling with the stove, so I think he's having some issues, too.) Grrr...
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Well. Our oven will work if we wait for it, but we might want to make sure it works on a simple cake or some biscuits or cookies before we try cooking anything important in it. Also, someone put oven cleaner in there and didn't burn it off. So we might want to burn that off first.
The stovetop we will need the pilots replaced on, as well as the feed tubes, since they are completely blocked and corroded. (We got this in writing from the guy so the landlord will have to take care of it, as it's not our responsibility what happened to it before we moved here.)
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I am steadily working toward increasing visibility in the apartment. Right now, I can see about 3 feet in every direction. I hope I can get to the door when the Chinese food delivery guy gets here. I hope I've left a clear path to the bed and bath areas...I hope Rob comes looking for me soon.
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Good luck with the stove, kq! That sucks, although I guess it would be worse if it sort of worked now and you had to deal with it in a month. Then you'd have to prove it wasn't your fault . . .
bunbun, does that mean you're all moved in? Yes, the boxes everywhere phenomenon does suck. I totally know what you mean about creating pathways! In my case, a number of them CAN'T get unpacked until after I finish assmbling cabinets/shelves/etc. to unpack them into.
Most of my books are unpacked onto shelves. Completely in the wrong arrangement, but it's easier to move 'em around than unpack them in the first place. At least that's my theory. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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