Move In Time!!

We couldn't move into our new house right away because John could not get home for another week. I drove down to the new house the day after I got the keys and cleaned, although there wasn't really much I could do with no water or electric turned on in the house. I didn't have to work that day because the center was closed for the tropical storm that never hit us.

After doing what I could at the new house, I drove back to the old house and started packing what I had not already packed. I called the utility companies and had the water and electric turned on. I set up a moving truck and set dates with the utility companies to turn off the utilities at the old house when we left. And then I had to wait...and wait...and wait...until John got home and we could move.

I took a long weekend off from work and we moved all of our crap in one day. We started loading the moving truck early on a Saturday morning and had the loading done a little after noon. We drove down to the new house and started unloading stuff right away. We had left John's pickup at the old house with the utility trailer attached and would drive back up for that the next day. It was around 6:30 that evening I think when we got to the master bed in the moving truck. Once we got the bed unloaded and set up, we looked at each other and said "We're done for tonight." We hadn't eaten and we were both tired, dirty, and hungry. The water and electric were on in the house and all I wanted was a shower and sleep. I didn't even really care about eating at that point. Frankly, thinking about the energy it would take to chew whatever it was we decided to eat was exhausting in itself. But we needed food. So I drove down the street to KFC and brought back a bucket of chicken. Yep, the first meal we ate in our new house was the Colonel's finest. We were tired. And we didn't have a fridge yet. And none of the boxes were unpacked.

We ate, showered, and promptly fell into bed. I think I just threw a sheet over the mattress and called it good for the night. The next morning we were up and rolling to get the pickup and then straight back to the new house to finish unloading. We had to have the truck back that night.

All in all, everything went well with moving. It was exhausting and the house was a mess for weeks later trying to get everything organized. I'm still organizing and it's been six months since we moved in. I think I walked around in a daze for a while just thinking It's ours.