Last Saturday

We are doing well. The kitchen, office, living room, and master bedroom are all unpacked. Our basement is a big huge mess - a dumping ground for all the boxes and other junk that dooesn't yet have a home. Our dining room table is piled in garbage. The second bedroom is a maze. I'll put some move-in day pictures up soon, if I can. It's difficult, because we don't have internet at home yet, and I can't really blog at work...

Move in day for me was the easiest one ever. I woke up early and finished packing up random kitchen items, then sat down at the computer to post. Just as I finished up, Pam came to the back door, bringing with her, much to my surprise, my mother and sister. They had bought Krispy Kremes, bless them, which I don't think I'd had in about four months. And so the three of us started loading up cars. By the time David came home and picked up the U-haul, there was only furniture left to pack.

My mother and I planned on going to the house ahead of time and getting food for all our movers, but when we got to the car, we realized that I had a very flat tire. And when Frank so graciously replaced the tire with the spare, we realized that was extremely flat, too. Long story short - after some time on the phone with AAA, a tire store, and a towing company, I ended up in the waiting room of Discount Tire, waiting as they replaced the flat.

About an hour into the wait, one of the workmen came out rolling some of my car's tires with him. It turned out that the walls of my tires were cracking and wearing away. (He circled all the big holes and showed me, saying, "I've never seen anything like this. Goodyear insures their customers for this kind of wear, but I've never seen it this bad.") Tire Guy told me that all my tires really ought to be replaced in the next few months. He also told me that Goodyear could give me a credit towards the new ones. So, half an hour later and $250 poorer, I walked out of the store with not one, but four new tires.

When I got back to the new house, all the stuff had been unloaded from the truck, and they had arranged the living room just the way I wanted it. And there were M&Ms, chips and salsa, and Cokes sitting out on the dining room table. Nice.