Move Accomplished

I rented a pick up truck from Uhaul on Tuesday, and got a couple of friends to help me haul everything the treacherous nine blocks between my old house and my new house. And by “everything,” I mean three trips worth of stuff. Sounds a little ridiculous right? I think we could have made it in two trips, except for the fact that you really can’t leave anything in the house. I had a bunch of random chairs from Othello that I could have lived without, but of course, I’m sure we’ll use them in the new place.

I spent most of Wednesday cleaning, but I had to take a break to walk downtown and get them to keep the water on in the new place. I’ve had a lot of walking to do since school got out. I think the walk was about 30 minutes, which I don’t think is a terribly long amount of time to get downtown. The drawback is that coming this way has me an extra half hour away from the grocery store and the bank I use, but that isn’t the end of the world either. On the way back from the water office, I noticed a Catholic church probably only ten minutes or so from the house, so I’ll probably go there, at least over the summer.

Today, Thursday, I had the final walkthrough at my old place. I was really stressed about that, probably from a less than ideal experience when we moved out of our rental in Alaska, but it ended up being really simple and low stress. The guy even gave me a ride back over to my new place. On the way he was jokingly giving me a hard time about getting a house from a different landlord, but when I pointed out where my stop was, he said “I didn’t even know this was a student house.” So I think he gets it now.

The new place is pretty sweet. We have four bedrooms, all on the second floor, along with one tiny bathroom. That’s really the big drawback; we’ll have to see how that works out. The first floor is all hard wood. Well, hard wood looking, I’m not sure if it’s legitimate or not, but it passed the sock sliding test that Jane requested. We have a large entry way connecting to a living room area with bay windows connecting to a dining room type area and then a gorgeous kitchen. I’m really excited because this house has a garbage disposal. Not to mention about three time the counter space of the other place. We have porches on the front and back of the house, with a decent sized backyard that’s fully fenced in. Now I just need to get a croquet set! The basement of the house is creepy as hell, but that comes standard with these places; if nothing else, it’s big.

I thought that some of my roommates were coming in this week, but I haven’t really heard much from any of them, so that was clearly a miscommunication. Hopefully they’re not planning on coming in this weekend, because I have the only keys right now, and I won’t be here suckas!

I’m going to New Jersey to see Jane tomorrow. Technically I’m going for her brother’s high school graduation, but I’m much more excited to see her. It should be a really fun trip; I’ve missed her a lot.

And on a COMPLETELY unrelated note:

I rented Throne of Blood, which is Akira Kurosawa’s take on Macbeth, and it’s making me strongly consider dressing as a samurai for Halloween, because it’s probably the only way I could ever sport one of those cool flags. Of course that’s only the plan if for another year in a row I don’t have the bod to get away with dressing as Atlas.