Hot & Sweaty
I return batterd, bruised, hot & sweaty after a 5 day weekend of moving. Bleuch. I seriously don’t ever want to deal with that ever, ever again. Sleeping on an air mattress sucks.
As soon as I find the box that has the USB cord to hook my camrea up to a computer I can share some of the pictures. Like the bruise on my arm from Mabel getting angry at being picked up and locked in a room all alone. And the picture of the movers taping the final items to the back of the truck so they wouldn’t have to make a second trip.
But I am once again a city girl, it took me a mere 2 hours to get to work this morning, yes that is longer than from the suburbs. The Blue line had some delays and then I waited forever for a bus. I just LOVE the CTA!
Hopefully the trip home will be nicer, and tomorrow there wont be delays…we’ll see.
The animals are adjusting. P-Dog is doing best. He’s enjoying the new place. Poor Sam, her arthritis makes it so she can’t climb the giant staircase. She has a permanent sad look on her face as we go upstairs without her. When she did make it up, as we all went down she stood at the top of the stairs with her sad eyes, made an attempt to come down, turned and went back up. We had to go get her and carry her down the stairs. Poor puppy. And Mabel…I loaded her into the crate, shut the door (top loading door) and she instantly started hissing and growling at me. I thought, Damn…she’s pissed already! Then realized I had shut her tail in the door. I was then all, “I’m so sorry Mabel!” and she was really pissed. The whole time in the crate was nothing but pissed off cat. Not good. But after one day locked in her “safe” room (my new office). She was all ready to explore the new house. Now, 3 days later, she’s found each bathroom and attacked the evil toilet paper. She’s tolerating the dogs much better than before and she seems happy.
I fear the weekend. Today I returned to work, so no more unpacking for me until Saturday. But Saturday is when my Harry Potter book arrives, I can’t NOT read it…but I can’t NOT unpack either! What to do!? How can I unpack and read Harry at the same time? And don’t say go get the audio book, cuz that’ll require buying a new CD player because the one I have is in a box somewhere… I will not turn into my father and go buy a new one because I can’t find the old one, nope…not gunna happen. Hopefully when I get home the living room will be all put together and I can lay down on the couch. Cuz I miss being able to lay down on my couch, and sleep in my own bed too. I don’t care how big the air mattress is, it’s not comfortable and it’s IMPOSSIBLE to get up from one when you’ve been moving an hauling shit all day long. Achey muscles don’t hop up off the floor so easily.
But, so far I’ve found things that were packed from the last move that I couldn’t find at the old place… Sheets, towels, blankets HUZZAH!
