I have put some photos of the house before we moved everything in...it'll be a while before the decorated photos come in, but I wanted to show SOMETHING for my story...
SO,
After a 3 day drive that was only made sane by the wonderful presence of my best friend PJ who flew down from Maine to help me drive Robert's truck with the little trailer on it. Robert drove the big 24FT Budget Truck with a car trailer behind it with my VW beetle on it. IT was quite a funny little caravan...until we got halfway through the 2nd day when the little truck went VRRROOOOOOOMMMMM and just stopped driving in the middle of a rainy highway. WIth some fast thinking I pulled over and PJ picked up the walkie and got Robert over behind us (good job!)...at which point I tried not to freak out and calmly called AAA to come tow us somewhere. Luckily, this time we were not in the middle of the Mojavi Desert like last time...we only had to be towed 4 miles. While we were waiting Robert was even able to make the truck work again, but we figured we better not try anything stupid. After much discussion we decided to put the truck on the car trailer and leave the little trailer with the mower in the middle of Virginia with a very nice tow company who had a fence to keep it behind. So PJ and I got to drive the VW the rest of the way, which was a much better situation except for the fact that the Budget truck couldn't go over 70mph on a flat highway, let alone on all the hilly roads across the Northeastern part of the country. Still, with our patience thin, we reached our 85 mile mark and rolled across the Maine border with high hearts and sighs of relief.:) Oh, I forgot to mention that, once we moved the little truck onto the trailer, Robert was stuck all FOUR cats in the cab of the Budget truck! Apparently they get hot really easily too, and it took him a while to figure out that that was why 2 of them were meow constantly despite their sleeping pills that we gave them each morning. I'm not even going to go into how hard it was to deal with finding a hotel that would accept cats (and sneaking them into a hotel that didn't).
So we got here and unloaded the VW enough to take PJ home and drive down to mom's to spend the night because there was no way we were unloading the truck then...and mom not only had dinner for us, but had all ready drawn a jacuzzi bath for me! I love my mom! She and Buzz were also awesome and came back with us the next morning to help unload the truck. So, between Mom, Buzz, Me, Robert, and Aaron (our friend who showed up just in time to move the heavy stuff and help fold the mattress in half to get it up the stairs) we were able to get everything out of the truck... except the piano. Now, I don't know who knows about the piano, but, basically, it was free and it's heavy. I am convinced I will re-learn how to play once it gets tuned, but I didn't get it tuned down South because it was going to be moved, so I haven't started learning yet. I was told it was heavy getting into our MS house, but I had no idea how heavy it really was until I watched Dad and Robert load it up on the moving truck...it has wheels, but they really don't work. When we went to unload it at our new house we tried the ramp, but that wasn't going to work; we tried just picking it up and lifting i
t off the ba
ck of the truck, that didn't work; finally they backed the truck up to the FRONT porch (a feat within itself), loaded the ramp onto the porch and used a combination on blankets and dollies to slide it down the ramp on its back! And there it stayed for the aftemoon waiting for a furniture dolly that was supposed to appear (why I didn't think of a furniture dolly before I don't know). Luckily, when Robert and Aaron took the extra appliances down to Round Pond for storage they ran into our very stro
ng friend Larry who found a furniture dolly and lifted one end of
the piano all by himself...and then it was in. PHEW! What a fiasco for a piano...let's hope we can tune it!So, now we are plugging away at the boxes and the furniture (we have too many couches and not enough tables) and trying to catch up on lost sleep.
I start at Lowes on Thursday as, DUH DUH DUH DAH: department manager of MILLWORKS. Seriously, I thought that they were kidding when they kept saying they might put me in Millworks, but I guess they weren't. JEEEZ! SO, I'm basically starting a completely new job because I have to actually learn the details of selling systems, how to measure doors and windows and all kinds of shit I don't even know how to do. And WHY did they put me in Millworks? Because they want me to motivate their two sales specialists to sell better, approach customers, and work their paperwork better. HA! That's what I never wanted to do in Seasonal, but maybe it's because I didn't have time over there and now it's going to be my main focus so it will be okay. I am up for a learning experience, I guess...especially since I get a raise and I'll get spiffs for selling SOS's.
Anyway, that's the update...sorry it's not funny or interesting, but it IS informative.:)
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Oh very nice! Hope you get settled in quickly :)
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