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November 09, 2002
I survived the movers (but got no t-shirt)
I packed up my computer on Tuesday night in preparation for the movers on Wednesday. I remembered to print off my Quicken, my address book, Cheryl's pay information but FORGOT to write down the url for updating my blogs AGHHH!
The move went very well. Day one, the movers showed up and suddenly I saw my house through their eyes. I was scared for them. I cannot describe how much I hate the fact that I am a pack rat. I swear, I am turning over a new leaf in Italy (I say this each move). Anyway, their task seemed daunting but they were amazingly cheerful about it. Seth toddled around happy as a clam. He was so excited, all that paper to eat and all. Around lunch time, Cheryl says ummm, where are the Yu-Gi-Oh cards? Insert record scratching to a halt. If there was ever a tragedy in the making, this was it. These are the new version of Pokemon cards and are not only worth alot of money but are my two older sons prized possesions. The mover guy was just putting the sealing tape on the second school desk - he looked at us like we were crazy but obliged. Ahhh, whew. Insert happy soundtrack restarting. The guy packing at the back of the house says "Do you work with pregnant women or something?". Fifteen minutes later, the guy at the front of the house says "You have alot of books on breastfeeding and pregnancy." Gee, ya think I need to cull?
We moved into the hotel on Wednesday night and promptly got into the pool. Let me just tell you how loud three little boys are in a hotel room. We are on the third floor and their feet sound like a cacophony of drums. The boys school bent over backwards for us and actually has made the hotel a temporary bus stop! The boys are doing fairly well, we have had a few meltdowns (mostly by me). The main task will be to get big exercise and eat as healthy as possible.
The movers finished up on the second day. Most of the appliances and garage junk are going to permanent storage so I had to clean up the lawn mowers (yes I have two, don't know why, given the fact that I don't mow), the deep freeze and the refridgerator. Please explain to me WHY I had 5 bags of frozen spinach? I simply must start taking an inventory before shopping. I ended up giving a huge box of frozen food to a friend of mine but all of the open stuff went into the trash. It is amazing how much food you can horde in a refridgerator.
Today, the permanent storage guys came and did their thing. I had to go into work and get my obligatory end of tour award. I hate this. It is similar to giving a kid a cookie when they behave at the restaurant.
As I said before, major upset in the itinerary. I am now flying out of Norfolk on December 1st. This lops off 4 days of visiting, wahhhh. Fortunately, I had five or six days planned for the Chicago part, so I will just decrease it to three. I will post the new itinerary in a few days when I've contacted everyone affected.
Posted by DebC at November 9, 2002 12:00 AM