2 posts tagged “moving”
It's been a nice low-key holiday this year. We decided not to go anywhere in part because of our impending move (just 2 weeks from now, eek!) and also because I didn't feel okay about going to Michigan and having a visit with P's family again without having the opportunity to visit my extended family--in particular, my grandmother who is 86 and who has slowed down considerably over the last few years. We're going to try our best to get up to see her this spring, probably over Memorial Day weekend when my family traditionally has a camping trip. As City People, P and I are planning to stay at a relative's house instead of roughing it. We are not Camping People. (I spent enough of my childhood huddled in unheated tents or by a campfire while it poured down rain, thankyouverymuch.)
I've been off work most of this week; I came into the office this morning to deal with email and voicemail, of which there was very little. Fifteen emails, half of which were just notifications, and no voicemail at all. So I've been marking time until 12:30, when I can leave and not come back until next year, muahahaha.
As for the move, well. I've started packing and we're going to buy boxes this weekend and we're trying to bribe local friends with booze and pizza in exchange for hauling stuff, so I'm hoping it'll come off. I'm also trying to coordinate the new furniture, because if we can get it delivered the weekend we move in, then I don't have to have my nasty old furniture in the new apartment at all (I say nasty because it was originally dumpster furniture and while it's served me well these last few years, I don't know the provenance of it and that sort of bugs me). If not, then it will likely be delivered the following week and I have a conundrum: do I go without a couch for a week or do I have the old loveseat moved into the new apartment and bribe the delivery guys to haul it 100 yards to the dumpster when they deliver the new? The loveseat isn't terribly heavy (unlike the couch which is a sleeper-sofa), so me and P can haul it to the dumpster if we have to and I guess we need to have something there to sit on, but it's really not big enough for two people, either. Then again, if I order the new furniture today, it will be at most 3 weeks for it to be delivered--so I clearly need to order it this week just in case it is going to take 3 weeks--if it's going to take less, I can arrange for it to be delivered on the day we take possession of the new place. Then again, I just looked and the couch we want is available with the cover we want, but the footstool isn't. But they're both available in our backup color (which I'd also be okay with--possibly more okay because a beige couch is probably more versatile than a light medium green one is), so do I get just the couch in green and then try to get the footstool later or do I get both in the backup color? Because every time I've checked local availability, the green never seems to be in stock, so we'd have to get it delivered which would mean more delivery charges, argh. Or I could just go with a coffee table, but I was looking forward to the storage in the footstool because we desperately need storage. But then again I can always buy baskets to go under the coffee table or something. Argh.
I need to stop thinking so much.
We're moving into a bigger apartment! We're staying in the same complex and, in fact, the new apartment is quite literally a stone's throw from the current one: it's downstairs and catty-corner across the courtyard. We can see it from our balcony. New apartment is a first floor one, though, which will make everything so much easier.
For only $110 more a month we'll get a second bedroom, a second bathroom, a slightly larger living room, more windows, more closet space and did I mention a second bedroom? We'll be able to stick P's desk (and associated detritus) in there, my fiber stash in there, my review books in there, etc. etc. etc. The onther thing, which you can't see on the flooplan but is there in reality is that the master bedroom has a sliding glass door, too--on the diagonal wall. So we'll have to have the bedroom arranged differently (right now, the bed is on the diagonal wall), but there are two windows and the patio which means there should be a lot more light in there. My biggest gripe about the current apartment--apart from the fact that it's not big enough for two people--is that it's got terrible light. Hopefully we'll get slightly better light with a southern exposure instead of the eastern one we have now. Certainly can't be much worse, to be honest.
I'm ridiculously excited about it and keep rearranging the furniture in my head--because after we move, we're getting the new couch! Whee! And then we'll be saving up for a dining room table and chairs! And it will all go together in a delightful IKEA sort of way! Whee!
