MOVING DAY!!!

   

 

   

   

 

This about sums all of Saturday up!

Load em' up and move em' out!

Juli and Fran helped me move a ton of stuff on Thursday and Friday night, but there still seems to be a ton still left to pack.  But tomorrow is “Moving Day” and I’ll just have to come back on Sunday or Monday for all the stuff that I’ve forgotten.  Thank god it’s only Derek living here and I don’t have to be out by any set time or date! 

I’ve got about a dozen people moving me, four trucks and three SUV’s – I think I’m set!

It seems weird that this is the last night I’ll be spending in this house.  So many memories, good and bad…it’s kind of surreal.  I mean I’ve moved before, but this was always the permanent address; the house that I always came back to.  It was home.  It’s been home all my life.  Definitely some mixed feelings here.  I’m excited for my own place…one that I own and for living alone in my own space, where no one but me decides how to decorate, where the furniture and plates are going.  But I’ll miss my house.  I don’t think it will matter who lives there, it will forever hold a place in my heart. 

What I won’t miss are the neighbors; the ones who talk out in front of my house at midnight, rather than in their own backyard where they won’t bother anyone, the ones who yell to each other across their driveway because they don’t know how to speak in normal tones, the drunken weirdo’s who walk up and down the street in the middle of the night swearing, the teens who are out at all hours during the summer just being annoying, the nursing home staff that smoke out the back of the building at all hours so the smell drifts down into my open windows…yeah, I won’t miss any of that!  Or the street lamp shining into my bedroom at night.

There are a lot of good things about this new place that I know I’m going to enjoy!

Three more days...

I’m counting down to moving day, if you hadn’t noticed.  I’m still wandering around the house finding things that I haven’t packed yet, remembering things in other rooms and areas of the house that I don’t frequent…like the attic and above the garage.  I don’t know how I will fit it all, but I have a feeling that the “Good Stuff Free” shed at the transfer station will be getting a truckload of new stuff relatively soon!

Time Warner Cable called me on Monday as a courtesy to make sure that my internet service was working properly (I had called them few weeks ago with an issue).  I told the guy that I was about to call them that day to set up a day/time to have my services moved to my new house and he set to work helping me with that. 

He started out by saying that he couldn’t guarantee that he would be able to have a tech in the area on Tuesday, July 6^th, but first he wanted to check to make sure that I could get service out there.  He then came back and told me that there were already services attached to my half of the duplex!  I asked if it was in the name of the previous owner and he said yes.   I explained the situation, that we had bought the house a month ago and that I was living on one side and renting out the other, that the previous owner no longer lived there and didn’t even own the place.  The guy at Time Warner said that I couldn’t move my services until the previous owner called to disconnect his and that I should call the old owners.  I don’t know the old owners!  The last I had talked with them was a month ago and I didn’t have a number.  So the Time Warner guy said he would call. 

Yesterday, he called to say that the old owner didn’t want to lose his email address and that’s why he hadn’t disconnected yet.  The owner would transfer the service when he moved into his new house.  I asked the Time Warner guy how he could do that since he didn’t own my house anymore, and what if the guy didn’t get into his new house for another month?  It was ridiculous of me to have to pay for services that I can’t use at a house I will no longer be living at and not be able to get them at the house I WILL be living at.  He said he’d work with the old owner to resolve the situation and call me back in a few days. 

After I hung up with him, I was so mad.  I had to bring my truck out to the garage to get it fixed and on my way out there, I started to get angrier and angrier about this situation!  It was bullshit that they couldn’t do anything until he canceled his services!  I was to the point that I was contemplating canceling my services with Time Warner if they couldn’t resolve it by Friday. The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized that would only negatively impact me – that I would be the one without internet and cable, and I need internet to use my Vonage (which I still have another year of service in my contract).  I told myself that I had to let it go, because it wasn’t doing me any good to stew about it.

Within 5 minutes of letting it go, the guy from Time Warner called me (this was at 4:30 pm).  He said the situation was resolved, the old owner’s service would be disconnected as of Sunday and my service would be switched over on Tuesday, as I had requested!  Now I have to take back every bad thing I said about Time Warner in the last two days!

Packing Packing Packing

My packing buddy, Nymbus, has been inspecting every box and storage tote that makes it's way into the house.  He cracks me up! 


I'm on vacation for the next week, trying to pack as much as I can now so that when the house is painted, I can move right in.  Every time I turn around, though, I find new stuff to pack...new stuff to figure out HOW to pack! 

Closing tomorrow!! Can't wait!