Moving Woes
September 1st, 2010Well, I’m just about on the other side of moving to the other side of Columbus. The worst of it has been the last couple days, mostly owing to the fact that I suddenly had big issues going on with the brakes in my car, and the car is now in the shop. My mother had come down Monday and Tuesday in order to help me clean out the old apartment and take over my last load of belongings, so fortunately I didn’t have to face the tail-end of the move without a vehicle of some kind. She was an amazing help, by the way.
So yeah, up until having to give up my car, I’d been suspicious at how well the move was going, and wondered why more things hadn’t gone wrong! ^_^; On Friday, my friend Susan, two coworkers (Deborah and Kellie), and Chris helped me move my first load of boxes and smaller furniture to the new place, which is a room in a house owned by some friends of ours, the Beargies. Thanks to Kellie’s SUV, we got a LOT more done that night in a very short amount of time than I thought we would, which was awesome. Then I took everyone out for pizza at Hound Dog’s and we played Cthulu Dice a couple times while we waited. Deborah got VERY excited about the game and promised to not be too crazy at work for the next week with the promise that we would invite her out to play more nerd games. XD
On Saturday, my friend Justin brought over his truck, which we used to take over my bed, bookshelf, and other leftover furniture. Susan came by again, as well as another friend, Chad, so we loaded up all the vehicles and got all of that stuff taken over. It was then decided that we were all hungry, so I took everyone out for pizza in between loads. ^_^ The last load was actually all in Chad’s car, because Justin and Chris decided to take a few last-minute things up to his parents’ house in Worthington. The Johnsons are nice enough to let me store some of my extra furniture and boxes in their basement until whenever I move somewhere I can use them again. :D
So we got all the really important stuff out of my apartment in two days with a surprising degree of efficiency. I’m feeling a little self-congratulatory for being so on the ball.
Of course, one of the more annoying issues that lingered on for days is the fact that I had a bunch of furniture that I was neither taking with me nor storing; a couch, a broken lift recliner, a giant console TV, and a glass patio table. I spent days posting ads to Craigslist and to my Facebook friends, but none of it really moved until the very last minute. It was pretty frustrating.
And on top of all THAT, our neighbors kept using our building’s dumpster for their moving trash, too. It was pretty fucking ridiculous: by Saturday afternoon the thing was packed to capacity with trash and mattresses and shit like that, so for the rest of the weekend everyone else just piled things all around the dumpster. I mean, what else could we really do? It didn’t even get emptied until Tuesday, either.
But right now, I’ve got all my stuff moved over to the new place. It’s all still in boxes and tubs, and I’ve got a LOT of work to do this coming weekend… Since I’m without my vehicle, I’m essentially staying with Chris since it’s so close to work, so I haven’t even spent a night in my bed since last Thursday. I’m so regretting that I didn’t ask for these last few days off work, since having to close at Tarjay has been a real pain in the ass amongst all this other moving drama.
But I do have Friday and Saturday off, which I’m really looking forward to. The dust will all settle here very soon.
