Moved In!

[multipurposegoddess]

The movers have left, all the furniture is approximately where it's supposed to be (except my vanity mirror which I will move with my parents tomorrow), and many boxes are out in the shed so the house is fairly passable. Yay!

I think the biggest excitement of the day was realizing that the movers packed up the key to my bike lock before I had unlocked it from the back stairs. Whoops. We went to Ace hardware and bought some serious snips and an even more serious bolt cutter. Snip through the sheath, cut through the wire, freedom for my bike. How lucky that that was the worst thing to happen, right?

The cats are in the blue room, locked in but free to move around in there, with a clean litter box and fresh food and water. I might leave them in there for the night, I'm not sure. They're pretty mad at me. And they are not meowing to come out. If they do I will probably give them the run of the house. Keeping them inside is hard, but I will try to do it for a day or two.

The dog is curled up by DH's feet. I think he is wondering when we will go home.

Still have the mirror to move, some other small things that got left, and cleaning at the old place. Have a week to do that. At the new, there's just unpacking, some minor furniture moving, an installing the things that cover the borders between different types of floors where they go. And window treatments, but i haven't worked out my vision for those, yet. And setting the new TV up. And connecting the porch light, but that's DH's job.

Washer and Dryer probably gets delivered next Wednesday.

Yay.

Comments

[charlotte-buff.livejournal.com]

Yay for moved! You must be so exhausted with how much you've already accomplished. And yet... there's still more to do. Funny how that works, eh?

But go you for what you've accomplished so far!

[vwbug.livejournal.com]

So exciting! I'm so happy for you. Hope you're sleeping soundly in your new house!

And the bike situation reminded me of when I moved into this apartment and the movers couldn't get the couch in. Something has to go wrong with a move. It just does. It's like a law. Glad it was easily fixable.

[fiorituranotte.livejournal.com]

Good luck getting all settled in to your new place.

[zenkitty-714.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!

[sail-aweigh.livejournal.com]

Whoohoo for moving in! Even with all the stuff left to do, there's is nothing like having a place of your own.

[makaidiver.livejournal.com]

Yay!

For your cats: Putting butter on their paws helps them locate to their new home after a move.
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf66441364.tip.html
Snopes and The Straight Dope weren't helpful in confirming/denying this, but there are anecdotes that it works. In comments below the article linked, there are more links about cats, scents, etc. FYI.

[tskaredoff.livejournal.com]

The cats seem to be adjusting just fine sans butter. Jadzia is just happily exploring the house (I think she is grateful not to be in the car for a week, again), and Pixie is mad at me but okay with the environment, so I'm thinking that catching her and holding her while putting butter on her paws would be more traumatic than letting her hide under the old rabbit hutch all day as long as she keeps coming inside by dark.

[makaidiver.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Sorry, I'm all chatty on the subject. One of my coworkers moved from the Oakland Hills to Moraga and her cat Ernie got out and disappeared. He reappeared weeks later, thinner, at the old home. He went back over the East Bay Hills!! Good thing there aren't any major roads in that route or he might have been squished trying to cross them.

[fufaraw]

I'm so impressed with all you've accomplished. Exhausted just reading about it, but you've had such a good handle on it all the way through. I hope your new house makes wonderful memories for you.

[tskaredoff.livejournal.com]

Thanks, y'all! Reading these is giving me the get up and go to actually clean the old place...