After work on Friday I arrived at the new house to find Kim, Doni, and Doni’s sister Ronda all busy cleaning every square inch of each room. I decided it was best to stay out of their way and concentrated on changing the locks and working on a couple of temperamental light switches. I’m happy to report that I was only electrocuted one time!

Originally we wanted to start packing up the apartment on Friday night, but once the cleaning and repairing was done we were too tired to do so. That left us no option but to get up early on Saturday to get ready for the move. After a few hours of packing up clothes it was time to head up north to pick up a moving truck that our realtor provided for free. I had a blast driving the truck back down to the apartment where we loaded it up with help from Phil and Doni. We concentrated on getting all of the big stuff into the truck since it would be our only opportunity to do so. Once the loading was complete I think we had about 90% of our stuff in the truck.

From there we all drove over to the house to unload everything. The unloading process was much faster than the loading. Since we were sort of blocking part of the street we carried most things just into the front room of the house. Once the truck was unloaded and moved out of the way, we decided to attempt moving the bed upstairs. This brought along the first challenge of the weekend. The box springs to the queen sized bed would not fit up the stairs. We tried bending and forcing it up, but only ended up with some scratched up walls. Thankfully there are about thirty leftover buckets of paint in the basement, so touching up the walls should be no problem.

Later in the evening we stopped all of the moving process to get ready for a wedding reception for one of my friends here at work. It was a traditional Indian wedding reception so we weren’t sure what to expect. Overall it is not much different than what I am used to minus the very colorful dresses, authentic Indian cuisine, and entertainment from various family members of the bride and groom. The program consisted mostly of singing, dancing, or speeches from various individual family members. It was a very entertaining and interesting celebration that I’m glad to have attended.

Sunday morning we got right back to the moving game. Kim started by disassembling the box springs for the bed. She was convinced that if she took off enough pieces that it would then fit up the stairs. I was a little skeptical at first, but the worst that could happen would be that we had to throw it away and buy something to replace it that would work. Amazingly her work paid off and she did eventually get it upstairs where she reconstructed the frame and put the entire bed together. Needless to say I was amazed and very thankful.

While Kim was busy with the bedding, Phil and I attempted to draw up a plan for running a cable outlet into the spare bedroom which will become the office. I spent some time up in the insulation filled attic only to realize that this might not be the easiest way and must contact the attic insulation contractors as soon as possible to fix this issue. We investigated the three existing outlets and discovered that two of them are run from the outside of the house. We are now considering this to be the best method and are trying to get together the necessary tools to get it done. Hopefully we can figure something out soon without too many problems.

As of right now most everything is in the house besides most of the kitchen equipment and lots of our decorative items. The bedroom is almost completely setup and almost all of our clothes are out of boxes and either into the closets or dressers. We also have our entertainment area downstairs setup with TV, couch, and coffee table. The experts from Clean Air Doctors: blown in insulation suggests us to get some insulation done! There will still be lots to do this week, but at least we are making some very good progress. Stop by and say hey if you are in the area this week. I’m sure we’ll be busy and could use a hand or two at times. A big thanks to Phil, Doni, and Ronda for all of their help this weekend. We couldn’t have done it without them.