Eight Lives Left

Unsecured WiFi is a beautiful thing.

It took about 7 hours for everything to be moved. It was a very long process, and I’m extremely grateful that T and my sister were here to help out.

T is an incredible person for getting things done. She lined all my drawers and cabinets in the kitchen with shelf liner. Then she drove to Loew’s for me and bought the brackets and shelves that I needed for the wall in the spare bedroom. Then she unpacked my entire kitchen and put it all in place, from silverware to the crockpot to all my canned goods. And THEN she hung my shower curtain. I am indescribably grateful that she did all of that for me. I owe her a very nice dinner somewhere!

I had put the kitties into their carriers pretty early on in the morning, but then I realized that the move was going to take far longer than I had thought, so I went ahead and brought them to the new place and locked them up in the master bedroom where the kitty box was already set up. When we got there a couple-three hours later with the movers, I found all three kitties crouching in the cabinet under the bathroom sink. Poor scared traumatized kitties! Once the moving was done I opened the door for them but it took them a long time to come out and start exploring, and there was much vocalization about how they didn’t approve of the day’s events so far. They seem to be calming down now, and each kitty got to have some quality mommy time, and dinner, and a treat.

After T left I took a shower and got into clean jammies, and came into my brand-new spare bedroom to mess around with computers. Imagine my joy when I discovered a beautifully high-speed unsecured wireless connection in the vicinity. Tres convenient.

Tomorrow is seeing the new Sex and the City movie with T, and playing some WoW, and unpacking. I have a functional bathroom and bedroom and kitchen, and the office will be functional as soon as I get my broadband turned on, and the rest I can deal with bit by bit.

Oh, I almost forgot to say that while T and I were resting on the couch before she left, someone knocked on the door. It was a real estate agent with a client and they wanted to know if the condo was for sale!!! I told them NO!!!

It’s 5:38am and I’ve been up since 5. The bathroom is done. I need to start the kitchen and find boxes for some odds and ends and then it’ll be time to actually move. Thank God I hired movers, and thank God both my sister and T will be here. That’s going to take a lot of stress off. This afternoon will be getting kitties settled, and finding the boxes that have the essentials for basic living, and then beginning to unpack.

It’s going to be a little sad to leave this apartment. We had some bad times here, but we had far more good times, and it’s been a good safe place for us through all of it.

Later on I’ll try to post pictures of the dresser and nightstands I bought to match my bedframe. It’ll have to wait, though. I gots to pack!

I hope everyone is doing well.

Well the kitchen still isn’t done but, frankly, I’m exhausted. Both my sister and my friend T will be coming over in the morning to help out with the movers. I think I’ll head off to bed pretty soon and get up at the buttcrack of dawn to see how far I can get with finishing the packing. And if I don’t get entirely done, T and my sister can help. It’s just that last bit. This week has been non-stop and I’m tired and stressed and ready to just collapse. At least tomorrow night we’ll be in the new place and can start UNpacking.

I figured out some money stuff and then went ahead and ordered the matching dresser and night tables for my bedroom. It’ll all be delivered next Thursday evening and they’ll put it together for me and then we’ll have a nice bedroom to sleep in. The kitties will like that. I’ll like having a functional dresser again.

Okies, my night meds are kicking in. It’s bedtime. I’ll set the alarm for 5am and see if I can finish everything up before the movers get here. They’re scheduled for between 7:30 and 9:30, so who knows when they’ll actually show up.

It looks like I’m going to run out of boxes AGAIN. This will be my fourth trip to the box store. Jeezam.

I still haven’t started the kitchen. Or the bathroom.

Out. of. control.

Let’s see. Today I went to both Home Depot and Lowe’s to get keys made, but was partially unsuccessful in that neither one could make copies of my mail key for me. I’ll have to drive into Leesburg for that. While I was there, I checked out the carpet runners they had available but they were so so ugly that I didn’t buy anything. However, they were also so so cheap, so I might go head and choose the least ugly and buy them for now, to protect my floors, until I can get something that I actually like. I’m undecided about that, though.

I got my laptop working online through my BlackBerry, so that I won’t have to be without Internet access this weekend. Yes, I’m addicted.

I spent the rest of the day chatting with L/L and packing. The closet is mostly done, and the same for the linen closet. I have one last box of fragile things to pack, and the office stuff is mostly done. I haven’t touched the kitchen, but I suppose I’ll get that done tomorrow. I haven’t touched the bathroom either but that’s going to be a no-brainer anyway; I have hardly anything in there.

There are so many boxes in my apartment that I’m having trouble getting around. It’s crazed. The cats are all kinds of discombobulated and I have to admit that I am too. This really wreaks havoc with our sense of security, but I know it’ll be ok.

I stopped sorting things a long time ago and reverted to throw-everything-I-see-into-a-box mode. That means I’ll have to sort through stuff as I open up boxes in the new place, but I think that’s ok. For one thing, there’s a lot more space so I can just keep the boxes piled in one corner of the living area and deal with them bit by bit. There’s a lot I simply need to get rid of. I have no intention of being so cluttered in the new place.

Oh, I forgot to say that when I went to Home Depot I managed to get the plastic I needed to finish up my kitty poop plan. What is my kitty poop plan, you ask? (Well, maybe you didn’t ask but you’re going to get to hear about it anyway.)

I have geriatric kitties, one of which stopped using the litter box a long time ago because she has degeneration in her hips and can’t jump very well. This makes the litter box area a bit dicey to keep clean, as you can imagine. I wanted to keep things in the new place as clean as possible, so I came up with this plan. First, I had the carpets Scotchguarded. Then I’m putting down a green tarp in the master closet that I bought at Target. On top of that I’m putting plastic carpet runner that I bought at Home Depot. And then on top of that I’m putting a brand-new, very large, made perfectly for handicapped kitties, litter box. It’s actually a DOG litter box, if you can believe that, but it’s got a cut-out on one side so that it’s low to the ground, which means theoretically my geriatric poopy kitty can just walk into the box and do her business. And if she misses, there are two layers of plastic protecting the carpet and plastic is easier to clean than carpet.

So yeah. Getting this planned properly has been a large part of my week, but now it’s settled. Tomorrow after the cleaning service is done I’ll set up the new kitty poop area and we’ll see how it goes. I’ll be sure to keep you all updated.