Sunday was moving day. Here's the timeline of how I spent my day:
9:30am - pick up 17ft moving truck from U-haul
10:30am - load truck full of stuff to go to Ex's
1:00pm - drive to Ex's
1:30pm - begin unloading
3:00pm - finish and drive home
3:30pm - talk to friends who live 2 hours away who were supposed to arrive about 5 to help me load my stuff, find out they can't leave until about 4:30, putting them right in the middle of weekend traffic, plus right in the middle of some nasty thunderstorms
3:40pm - eat lunch
4:00pm - run around house packing various loose stuff
7:45pm - guys finally arrive, begin packing truck again
10:30pm - finish and drive to apartment
11:00pm - begin unloading
1:00am - finish unloading, say goodbye to guys, return truck
1:30am - get McDs so I can finally eat dinner and drive car back to house
2:00am - shower
2:30am - load a few other essentials from kitchen, fill coolers with stuff from the fridge
3:20am - drive back to apartment
3:50am - unload car
4:19am - head finally hits pillow
6:45am - "WTF is this alarm making noise for?" (turn alarm off)
7:37am - (waking up again) "Holy shit! I've gotta turn the truck paperwork in by 8am!"
7:59am - arrive at U-haul
8:20am - arrive back at apartment, get ready for work
9:29am - arrive at work
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Time flies when you're busy as hell
I just completed 11 days of vacation and today’s my first day back at work. I wish I could say I had a relaxing time hanging out on a beach somewhere, but that wasn’t in the cards for me. Instead I spent my time packing and preparing to move. Back when Ex and I realized we would be going our separate ways, she moved first, in order to allow Azure to get settled into a new school over Christmas break. Now, it’s time for me to move. I’ve never been more appreciative of having lived in a big empty house as I have over the past couple of weeks as I’ve begun packing.
I’m excited about the new place. It’s just your standard apartment community, but it’s a decent size place, and it even has a sunroom which I can use as a separate play area for the kids to spread their stuff out in a little bit. Plus, the kids and I should be able to take advantage of the onsite pool, and I can hit the fitness room and sauna whenever I want too. Maybe the best thing of all will be that I can take advantage of the free bus pass that my work provides and begin taking the bus back and forth to work, effectively parking my car except for the days I need to do something with the kids. That will be a huge advantage over the 45-minute one-way commute I had previously.
I also just completed six days straight with the kids while Ex went out of town. Her trip was planned before we realized I’d be busy packing during the same week, but it worked out ok anyway. My mom was kind enough to come down for those 6 days to help out with the kids as well as help me pack the majority of my stuff.
In other news, I started seeing someone a few weeks ago, so the very few free moments I’ve had recently have went her way. So as to not tempt fate, I’ll just say that things are going really well so far and leave it at that for the time being.
I’m excited about the new place. It’s just your standard apartment community, but it’s a decent size place, and it even has a sunroom which I can use as a separate play area for the kids to spread their stuff out in a little bit. Plus, the kids and I should be able to take advantage of the onsite pool, and I can hit the fitness room and sauna whenever I want too. Maybe the best thing of all will be that I can take advantage of the free bus pass that my work provides and begin taking the bus back and forth to work, effectively parking my car except for the days I need to do something with the kids. That will be a huge advantage over the 45-minute one-way commute I had previously.
I also just completed six days straight with the kids while Ex went out of town. Her trip was planned before we realized I’d be busy packing during the same week, but it worked out ok anyway. My mom was kind enough to come down for those 6 days to help out with the kids as well as help me pack the majority of my stuff.
In other news, I started seeing someone a few weeks ago, so the very few free moments I’ve had recently have went her way. So as to not tempt fate, I’ll just say that things are going really well so far and leave it at that for the time being.
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