5.18.2004
oh... my... god...
marathon moving. what a crazy ass concept. but it worked. somehow we managed to pack our entire apartment in one day. it helped that we spent a decent amount of money ($170) on boxes, a huge roll of plastic wrap, dish paper, bubble wrap and tape. we had all the supplies there for a perfect, seamless packing day. we started at 10 am and it went pretty well for the first couple of hours. it's funny how you pack everything in a room and it echoes. it is such a lonely sound.
it got to be about 2 in the am and i just gave out. after 16 hours of packing, my brain just dribbled out my ears and onto the floor and i started wandering around with bubble wrap just staring. i wanted to just get the biggest box possible and just stuff everything else into it. for some reason we saved the hardest room for last, the computer/art room. there was so much shit in there, plus a huge closet full of miscellaneous stored items we had accumulated over the last two years. needless to say, we did a half job on it. actually huey did an excellent job and i did no job at all, because he took pity on me in my senseless state and sent me to bed. he was up til four finishing off the room.
and by the way, for anyone considering it... hiring professional movers is such a good idea!! if you have the money, do it. they moved our entire apartment, plus some stuff from jay and josh's place, into the new house in about 4.5 hours. it was fucking amazing. these guys were practically running up and down the stairs with 50 lb. boxes. and these weren't even huge guys either. i expected some big muscle bound dudes to climb out of the truck, but they were all kind of small and wiry. but damn... they knew what they were doing. and it was really nice to be able to sit on the porch and just look down and say, "yeah, that goes in the master bedroom" or "you can just drop that in the kitchen for now" while smoking and sipping a cold beverage. sure, i felt a twinge of guilt, but these guys make good money. plus we tipped them $60 each since they did so well.
all in all, i was pleasantly surprised with the whole experience. no sore muscles or aching backs like years past. sure, everything is still in boxes, but i'm working on doing a room a night right now. it's just with jay's new big screen HDTV, it is hard to focus on anything else in the house. it's so damn cool!! and big!! and i mean BIG!!
anyway, we are having a house warming party sometime in early june. the date isn't set yet. but anyone who reads this that i know, get in touch with me through email and i'll keep you up to date. it'll be an actual party with a keg and not just a drunken monkey friday type thing. i'm not making any promises, but that is what we have planned so far. i guess i should get back to unpacking now. i've spent all day in front of a computer (which is retarded and useless in my line of work) but more on that tomorrow.
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posted by megs at 20:00
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