Moving Day

So, moving day was Friday the 15th. Didn't get much sleep the night before b/c I was excited, and packing. But I didn't really have a slow start. Again, I was excited, this being my real first apartment, and my real first time being on my own, so it only took me 5 minutes to get out of bed.

I go with my mother to pick up her paycheck at her new job, then the U-Haul place. And I mean, they just let anybody rent out U-Hauls. I can't remember the last time (or if there ever was a time) that I went into a business, and the salesman was smoking. It's a good thing I don't have asthma or I would've had a really bad time in that place. But I got my brand new truck (according to Dave, it's brand new b/c it only had 10,000 miles) and went home to fill it up with my belongings. I originally wanted to get a 10', thinking that that would be more than enough for my stuff, but actually the 14' was filled practically to the brim.

So the drive up here was interesting. It was my first time driving a big truck, and then not really knowing where I was going the 2 previous times I had been up here, didn't help either. But we made it (I absolutely LOVE Google Earth and its directions, right on the money!!!! I highly recommend using Google, for directions, it is so choice! Remember that?)

Anywho, oh, on the way up there, about an hour away actually, the leasing agent calls me and asks where I am. And I'm like 'oh I'm about an hour away,' and she's like 'ohhhhhhhhh great. I don't know how to tell you this, but the apartment I had you down for isn't ready, it's actually 123 that's ready, not 321. Did you wanna go ahead and move into 123? It's really nice, it's upstairs, I can show it to you." And I'm thinking 'ummmmm no, I already had the electricity turned on, and I wanted a downstairs apartment.' So I ask her how long it would take to have the apartment I was originally told I would get ready, and she put me on hold for a while, and said to give them until 5. So it was 2 at the time, we still had an hour to go, and I had other stuff to do once I got there anyway, so I said I could live with that.

So we get there, park the U-Haul, and the housekeeper tells us they just shampooed the carpet, and to give it about an hour to dry. No problem, we go and get my washer and dryer, drive around town for a little bit, and come back about an hour later, b/c it's about to get dark, and we're not trying to move in the dark. So it took about 2 1/2 hours to finish packing and loading the truck, it took 45 minutes to unload, b/c we were tired and wanted to get it over with. And we ended up taking the U-Haul back that night, even though I had it till Sunday.

So my first night in my apartment was okay. My mom took me to get groceries, and shelf lining material, and some blackout curtains for my windows, since I'll be working at night, and sleeping during the day. And they really do help. And for the most part, at least for now, it's pretty quiet there. we'll see in a few months though. But I still have a lot of unpacking to do, and some more decorating to do. Will have another update soon.