Adios, Efficiency!

This picture was taken the morning that we left the efficiency for the airport, by the mister's father (thanks!).  For anyone who didn't get to enjoy the full tour, it was crammed full of stuff and things, leaving not-a-whole-lotta-space to walk or move around in.  

I barely fell asleep that night, teeter-tottering between "worriedness" and "excitedness".  So, in the interest of privacy {and shielding from my awful morning face}, our head regions are somewhat blurred out. Having been wrapped up in the GO-ing part of moving, I forgot to eat breakfast.  Thankfully, we stopped at a drive-through, nommed on some calories, and managed to prevent food-tude.  Phew, what a relief!  

The efficiency had only one "room": the bathroom. Other than that, it was an open area.  No more seeing the kitchen from my bed. Yay!

I still can't believe how many boxes we had in there, and how well everything is fitting into our new place.  Finally... no more cramped mini-storage!

Vanishing Boxes

Sounds like a bad magic trick, right?
A person/group of people/company is coming to take the boxes away early this afternoon.

FINALLY!

I'm supposed to move them closer to the entry way.  hopefully I wasn't supposed to break them all down by myself, but I'll find that out soon enough...

Empty apartment

I'm glad I took a video of the empty, clean apartment since it won't ever look this empty again while we're here! I tried leaving a commentary with the video, and you can hear my breathing since I must have held the camera too close to my face or something. I'm new to the video thing, so be patient with me, please!!  Hopefully this works! :]

Anyone need a box?

We've got plenty of boxes to spare!  These are all the empty boxes...there are boxes stuffed with packing paper, boxes inside of boxes, boxes next to boxes, boxes that have been flattened, boxes that I trip over, boxes behind boxes, and boxes, boxes everywhere! (It feels kind of like a Dr. Seuss book, but the socks are in a bag, unfortunately and not a box, so that's not quite as catchy.)

how many boxes?

Our five boxes of books are staying in boxes for now, since we don't have a bookshelf to put them on yet.  They're too heavy to stack, so they just get to hang out in the den's closet for a little while longer.  Once everything's more in order, there will be pictures of things besides boxes, but for now... this is it!  Exciting, huh?

The mister and I have really enjoyed having an actual area to call our dining room. I didn't measure it myself, but the floor plan online says it's 10'x9'.  It's nice to have space to move around in! Even though these boxes are stacked to the ceiling (like the efficiency), there's still plenty of space to walk around avoid the boxes. (Plus the boxes should be leaving relatively soon, since the moving company will take them away.) I think I'm going to be grateful for all this space for quite awhile!

All our belongings arrived safely

The movers were here early Saturday morning with their giant truck full of all our stuff.  It was hard to stand by, without interfering, and let three random guys carry all our stuff in.  From our windows, I watched as my cello was tipped quite precariously against the truck and hoped that a gust of wind wouldn't knock it over. I asked them to bring that in next since I was nervous about it.  Once I inspected it to find that everything was in tip-top shape, I was much more comfortable knowing that if my cello was safe then everything else was. . .  which it was! It took the three guys 2-3 hours to bring everything inside.

The whole time I was wondering how everything would travel, and I am very appreciative that we didn't have to do this ourselves!  Unpacking the boxes took all of Sunday and part of Monday.  Everything was packed with tons and tons and TONS of paper.  There are many empty boxes and lots of paper waiting to be hauled away and recycled.

The Internet just got up and running today, so I'll have lots to catch up on.  Otherwise, the mister's been busy at work and I've been busy organizing stuff and applying to school! Lots to do yet!!

Keys!

We signed the lease to our apartment this afternoon, got the keys, and did some cleaning (which was definitely needed!).  It wasn't like what the mister or I remembered, but that's okay since it was way better than what we thought it looked like the first time we saw it!  It will be nice to finally be at a place where we aren't constantly waiting to move out. I guess it'll just be an added bonus that we won't be living in a mini-storage.  Two rooms, one bathroom, tons of closets, a real living room, a real dining room, a real kitchen, a balcony, and lotsa windows to let in the light from the east and the west. Holy smokes!  Our window space just quadrupled from the efficiency!!

Hopefully some pictures get taken of the clean, empty apartment before the movers toss our stuff everywhere. They should arrive tomorrow morning, and all will be dandy. Then, we can set to the task of organizing and getting connected to the Internet! :)

Welcome!

Welcome to this small chunk of the internet, which has been named 'Happily Going'. :-)  I'm not sure if it's up to par yet, but I figured I could leave an update about the moving process.

The mister and I flew out Saturday, March 19.  Flights were on time, the layover was brief, and it was relatively uneventful overall - which are all good things.  We left the airport in a rental car and (points for thinking ahead!!) used the GPS to easily find where we'd be staying for awhile. It's close to the airport, which would be okay if we were only here for a day or two, but every plane flying overhead shakes the windows and makes it sound as if the plane itself will descend upon the motel. It will be nice to move out, which brings me to . . .

relocation - which has been a debacle on almost every account. Just so I don't "jinx" anything ahead of time, I am waiting to enjoy writing a moving company review online once we have all of our stuff in our possession.  The one thing that has gone amazingly well was the auto-moving process. The cars were picked up March 18 and dropped off intact less than a week later.  I am anxiously awaiting a phone call for apartment approval, which I don't want to get too excited about until it's actually ours. A lot of stuff is waiting on having an address, like motor vehicle registration, school applications, utilities, etc. In the meantime, there has been lots of necessary paperwork, legal stuff, and awkward phone calls (which aren't fun!) and there is lots more to do yet. The mister's job is going well, and that's about as much as I can say.

On another note, there won't be any photos for awhile, since the camera cord to upload pictures was in the efficiency.  All of our stuff should be arriving here on Friday. (Notice, the operative word 'should'.) That's the basic summary on relocation thus far. It would be nice if it was warm enough to leave without a coat, but I think I'll have a to wait a little longer for that.