Home sweet home!

[kitanzi]

There are still dribs and drabs to come from the old apartment - we didn't panic over that, since we have to the end of the month to evacuate - and a buttload of cleaning, but the bulk of the move is DONE.

Two Men and a Truck showed up with a VERY big truck this morning right on time, and absolutely kicked ass. Folks, every packed box and every stick of furniture we had was packed, moved, and offloaded into our new place in two and a half hours with no fuss, no attitude, and no damage whatsoever. I was extremely impressed. If you need a moving company, I would highly recommend them.

Now we're settling into the slow process of unpacking all the boxes, but already I'm really liking the new place. We have high ceilings, we have ninety times as much storage space, we have loads of natural light, we have trees out back giving us privacy, we have TWO bathrooms and an office/guest bedroom big enough that we're not crowding each other! The cats are a little slower to settle in, but they're very cute to watch as they prowl around and find new hiding spots. (Jenna nearly gave ACat a nervous breakdown this afternoon when we couldn't find her - neither of us though a cat could FIT under that dresser!)

The boxes of books are living in the garage until we can get shelving put together, and that leaves us lots of space for the rest of the stuff, so all the boxes that were nearly claustrophobic back in the old place are quite reasonable off in a corner for the moment. It'll all get taken care of, but there's no feeling that the place is unlivable while we're working on them, and I really like that.

It's more tiring than I would have thought, though, given that we didn't do all the lugging (just all the packing and unpacking - quite enough in my elderly and senile condition. Well, I feel elderly and senile just now, anyhow.) Just letting folks know that we made it and it's all good, and now I'm going to go get dinner.

Comments

[callibr8]

Yaaaay for the major shift being done so promptly and well! Sounds like the new place will be very nice indeed. I hope you get to enjoy it for a long time to come. :)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Thank you! We'll house hunt eventually, but this is very nice right now.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I'll second that emotion... I know it taking so *long* was very crazymaking for us, particularly poor cflute...

Now that you're in a space you're comfy with, you can take your *time* about househunting. Will they let you go month-to-month once your lease is up, or do you have to re-sign and break? You might look into/negotiate the break terms when they come up again....

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Congratulations...but I thought you two were buying a house, not simply moving to another apartment? Or did I misremember/misunderstand?

I feel your pain...in fact, I felt it just last week when I did my own move. (I shoulda called 2M&AT like you did; could have spared myself the pain, anxiety and the cost of a masseur.) And you'd be amazed at some of the places under which our boneless Maine coon, Rosita, can secrete herself; she frequently hides under an ottoman in the living room you'd swear nothing taller than a snake could get under. She gave me a near-coronary the other day hiding in one of the rather capacious lower cabinets in my new kitchen; I was afraid I was going to have to explain to the Songbird how I let one of her cats escape the apartment only weeks before she was supposed to receive two of them in Kenya! (Of course, poor Rosie does have kitty PTSD from living with a grabby toddler and a rather large black dog years ago, so her tendency to seek safe concealment is at least understandable.)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Neither, you just failed to update the mental database. *G* Our original intent was to buy, but we didn't get our credit and our ducks in a row before we had to make a decision, since our lease was running out. As a result, we went to a bigger apartment with the plan to look for a house next year. (I'm really, really liking this place, though!)

[bardling.livejournal.com]

Yay, sounds like an excellent moving experience, just what I was hoping you'd have! And the new place sounds nice! *hugs* :)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

It is - come visit! *G*
*hug*

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I adore Two Men and a Truck - they did my last two moves and I will highly recommend them to anyone who'll listen.

I'm glad the move went smoothly!

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Very, and I'm glad!

[bardling.livejournal.com]

Tempting... ;)

[braider.livejournal.com]

Yeay! The new place sounds lovely.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

It is - come visit! *G*

[braider.livejournal.com]

*grin* Be careful what you wish for.

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the heavy part of the move. Unpacking will take a while.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Less than you think. Other than the boxes of books (which will wait until we have shelving) we're practically done. :)

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're in!

I'm impressed! I used Two Men and a Truck also and it took 3 men four and a half hours to move me (no packing).

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, definitely using them again next time.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

It sounds lovely! Some day when I'm not always going North, I'll have to come South

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

You'd be very welcome!

Where The Heart Is

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

"The boxes of books are living in the garage"

Garage? I thought you guys only had a parking lot at the old place. (Doesn't "the old place" have such a nice sound? :) I don't even know if you had reserved spaces. Now you have a garage.

"all the packing and unpacking"

Back when I was one of Two (or Three) Guys and a Van Moving, I used to think it ironic that I got paid for the easier part of a move, while the folks moving had to deal with all that goes before and comes after the shuffle.

Well done, guys.
Ann O.

Re: Where The Heart Is

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

You're right - we only had random parking spaces at the old one. We have random parking spaces available here, too, which is good since there's only room for one car in the garage. The packing and unpacking is harder overall, but the lugging is harder in the short term, I think! *hug*

[devinsong.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Gotta love that professional moving experience. I really, really missed it both for my last move and JT's. (My employers paid when I moved from up north down to Manchester, but we were too cheap to do it on our own dime.)

I have to wonder if dressers are particularly *secure* places for cats.. Woats hid under the dresser when we moved her too- and she *can't* get under it from the front, but she discovered that there's more space *behind* it, and got in that way. She was weirded out by the move, but mostly wanted to be sure no one was going to put her back in The Dread and Evil Car. Once she'd hung out for a few hours, she got bored and came out. But there were a lot of carpenters still tramping around in the daytime when JT and I were out for the first couple of weeks and that weirded her out all over again.

I saw the pictures ACat put up- the place looks marvelous! And garage space! Room for a car, huh? You know, I've heard that some people actually do put cars in garages, but I think it must be a myth. Where would they store stuff if they did that?! (Of course you guys don't need to store lawnmowers and rakes and stuff, which has got to help.)