The Big Moves!

[arontius]

.....Greetings All,

.....What a busy weekend! Seems like it should still be Friday, it moved so fast. But I am glad it is over as we hit and passed several major milestones on the summer's schedule. Only a few more weeks of stress and things should then start slowly winding down. Huzzah!

.....We picked up the keys to Mom's apartment on Friday and moved in the first van load of stuff. It is not a big apartment by any means, but it is far nicer than the apart from which she is moving! Mom hates change and I could see that she wasn't exactly happy with everything, but she was trying her best to be a trouper and move forward.

.....After dropping her off at the old home I ran to pick up the Beloved Tamm and Rhys and we made the 4:15 boat to Seattle. We had to drop Rhys off for the weekend, which bummed the Beloved Tamm somewhat, but there were definitely enough distractions to where she didn't have to think about it much thankfully.

.....We loaded the van with some furniture and other odd pieces, then had dinner at our favorite restaurant, had a little ice cream under the almost full moon, and enjoyed the nice evening. Just hanging out with the Beloved Tamm was so much fun. She is the most beautiful and wonderful woman I know. It was the perfect evening just because she was there.

.....We were home rather late but still managed to get up early enough to make the trip through Starbucks before meeting up with everyone at Mom's old house on Saturday morning. Wow! I have the most fantastic friends in the whole freakin' world! Besides the Beloved Tamm, Bernie, Tsuruko, Gwen, Cedric, Brighid, Talon and Jenae all showed up for the move. Most of these people had never even met my mother before Saturday, but gave up their day to help. Amazing! Everyone swooped in and we had everything loaded up in about 45 minutes. The moving of a lot of the stuff over the past couple of months paid off as well. We rolled over to the new apartment and had everything moved in and set up in about an hour or so. The Beloved Tamm and Brighid ran to K-MART (NOT Wal-Mart :-)) and bought some supplies for the new place. Then everyone got into the act of setting things up (making the bed, setting up the computer, etc.).

.....We then ran out for breakfast then. Afterwards I took Mom shopping and by the time we made it back to her place she was DONE with people. :-) I started putting away groceries and she told me 'NO, go home. I need a nap.' She looked a little overwhelmed a few times, so I told her to call me on the cell if she needed anything and that I'd check in with her on Monday.

.....Saturday afternoon was the big Blackberry Hollow Farm party! Good times. I enjoyed just hanging out and talking with people. The Beloved Tamm was able to hook up again with people that she has been able to for a long while. Especially Scott (Skapti), who managed to behave himself all the way up until he started laying the moves out on Tamm. I had to intervene at that point but only got him to stop when I started kissing on Ciar. :-)

.....It was fun all around. AND, I ALMOST managed to make it out of there dropping off the Kingdom Chronicler archives without picking up the Seneschal(e) files. Well, almost. Angharad caught me and MADE me take them home with me. :-)

.....Sunday was another early riser. We still managed to make it through Starbucks AND get on the 7:15 ferry to Seattle. :-) We started picking things up and loading the van before the rest of the crowd showed up for the day's work. It was Cedric, Brighid, Stivyn (Doug), Bernie, Tsuruko, Gwen, Ralg, and little Brigget for this run. Wow! Again with the thankfulness at having such wonderful friends!!!! We'll have to think of some way to pay them back.

.....By the time we loaded everything up I was seriously worried about how in the hell we were going to get everything into the house. I kept my mouth shut until an opportunity popped up to store a few belongings in Cedric and Brighid's garage, an offer for which I was VERY grateful.

.....Those who drove around made it back to the house at least a good half hour before those of us who took the ferry. Unloading was tricky, the big furniture taking a lot of negotiating to get up the stairs and into the living room. Ralg and Bernie made it happen relatively easily though.

.....By the time all the vehicles were off-loaded, we'd managed to get everything into the house (HUZZAH!). We even had a little bit of negotiating space left. Although the basement seriously reminded me of one of those Bugs Bunny cartoons where the house is stiffed so tightly with dynamite that when Yosemite Sam hops up and done to force the last few sticks into place, the entire place starts buckling at the seams. :-) Come to think of it, maybe the dynamite thing isn't such a bad idea. :-) Just kididng, Tamm would KILL me if I did that to her stuff. The Beloved Tamm and I were DONE at this point and just went out for dinner with Rhys. We felt a little better by the time we got back home and managed to rearrange the Living Room to make it habitable.

.....I'm tired again just thinking of all the work that has been done. But we're finally seeing the end of this particular dance. Yay! Just need to make it through the final clean out of Tamm's house and getting through the mountain of STUFF at the house. Then it'll really start feeling like home.

.....Aaron / Arontius.

Comments

I still can't believe S got into the hot tub!

[ciarnait.livejournal.com]

We are definitely coming over for mac'n cheese and baseball sometime soon.....

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain Aaron! I didn't realize how much stuff we had till me moved it - and had to move the stuff in our storage locker and the stuff we inherited from Brenda's dad. But we are finally making progress on sorting out the storage room(s) and making each item justify its continued existence, two years nearly after moving in!

And despite what Brenda thinks, I feel that having books sorted and heaped in the living room in the general vicinity of the shelves they will go on (when I order the shelves) rather than stacked in the back bedroom... is in fact progress. Of a sort.