Here we are!
Jan. 4th, 2008 07:24 amWe're in our new town house in Madison. We got in around 10pm on the 2nd, unloaded the car and the stuff Josh put in the truck on the 2nd, then went to bed (camping pads) around 11pm. Got up with the sun (our Northeast facing townhouse gets some lovely sunrising in the dinning room and bedroom #3), then proceeded to unload the truck. We took lots of breaks trying to manage our energy. By 3pm I could hardly lift boxes I was pretty sure I wouldn't have even called "heavy" a few days ago. Josh insisted that I lay down, and he joined me. I'd intended to just lay and rest for a half hour, but the next thing I knew I was waking up and it was dark out... 5pm. We brought the rest of the stuff in from the truck (all we had left was the dressers, the big bookcase, the mattress and box spring, and the china cabinet), and then went to dinner around 8pm. So there you go. We are capable of unloading everything we own in less than 24 hours... at least given help loading... if we'd had to spend 2 days loading the truck all by ourselves, I think we might have been altogether too tired to get it unloaded in 1 day, as it was we were pretty dang close to too tired.
Of course, a bunch of the boxes are still in the garage. But pretty much all of the furniture is in the rooms it belongs in, and the bedroom and office have their furniture more or less configured the way we think we want it.
On the agenda for the long weekend:
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Return the truck before noon
See about setting up internet/phone
Go to the library and get library cards
See about registering to vote
Register the car
Unpack lots and lots of boxes
Pay parking ticket we got when we arrived, for "parking on even side of the street on odd day"
Things we need to buy
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Bed frame
Entry way mats
Microwave stand
Faucet thing for the downstairs bath (it's squirting all over the place right now)
Replacement bolt for the coffee table leg (lost one in the move we think)
Of course, a bunch of the boxes are still in the garage. But pretty much all of the furniture is in the rooms it belongs in, and the bedroom and office have their furniture more or less configured the way we think we want it.
On the agenda for the long weekend:
----
Return the truck before noon
See about setting up internet/phone
Go to the library and get library cards
See about registering to vote
Register the car
Unpack lots and lots of boxes
Pay parking ticket we got when we arrived, for "parking on even side of the street on odd day"
Things we need to buy
----
Bed frame
Entry way mats
Microwave stand
Faucet thing for the downstairs bath (it's squirting all over the place right now)
Replacement bolt for the coffee table leg (lost one in the move we think)