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Moved!

Got the 'Net and computers back up so...here's the scoop (my creative juices aren't flowing so it's just the facts):

Wednesday
I went to the airport and picked up AJ and Adam at 8:30.

Thursday
I didn't have any of my tools with me so I went to the new house to pick them up. Lisa, AJ, Adam, Aly, and Mitch took off to pick up the moving truck. As I arrived back at the rental, I got a call from Lisa - they were almost home. They got lost and didn't pick up the truck. AJ, Adam, and I went and picked it up. We got started immediately. Adam and AJ were moving the furniture while I disassembled the cribs, our bed, my weight system, etc. We didn't get over to the house until early afternoon but we had made a huge dent in the moving. AJ and Adam unloaded the truck while I reassembled things (except the weight system...more on that later...). "We're gonna finish this today" I was thinking. While I was putting things together, AJ and Adam went back to the house to load things. When I got back to the rental, Adam and AJ had most of the bedroom stuff loaded. We didn't want to damage any of the bedroom set so they loaded a few more things onto the truck and headed back to the house. Meanwhile, I loaded the trailer and moved the weights to the garage to stage them for the next load.

I packed one of the computers but left the other computer, the printer, and the networking equipment hooked up so we could print the boarding passes for AJ and Adam's return flight. We tried in the afternoon but we had to wait until it was less than 24-hours before the flight. At 7:00 I noticed a Comcast truck down the street. At 7:30, I went to print the boarding passes but noticed all the lights on the cable modem were out. Now I know what Comcast was doing down the street....

AJ and Adam returned with the truck. I took the trailer load back to the house and unloaded it. "We're gonna finish this tonight" we were thinking. Adam and AJ came back to the house and unloaded while I took the trailer to pick up a few more things. I returned and unloaded the trailer...It was pretty late at this point. Everyone showered. We threw in a Sopranos dvd. AJ and Adam were out before the first episode ended. I shut it off after the first episode.

Friday
Friday was kind of hazy. We were all sore and tired. We didn't finish yeterday though... AJ and Adam headed over to the rental in the morning. They loaded up the shed and some of the residual stuff. Lisa sent me to Home Depot for angle brackets to secure bookshelves, etc. We also had someone come by in the late morning to clean the spa. I wish I would have taken a picture - the cleaning guy said that, while it wasn't the worst he'd ever seen, it was the greenest. I secured the shelves and loaded the trailer with junk. Adam and AJ returned and I headed to the dump to get rid of the junk.

Unless you live near one of the very few dumps in Washington, you don't actually go to the dump, you take the junk to a transfer station. At the transfer station, they weigh your vehicle with the load then you wait to dump it. By the time I got there, the line was from the dumping area past the weigh station. It took over an hour to dump the load - five minutes of that was me trying to back the trailer up - I really need practice...

After dumping the junk, I headed back to the house to get some of the residual stuff. Lisa called at about 2:30 and asked me to come back right away - AJ and Adam were worried about their seats on the plane. Comcast had come earlier in the day and hooked up the cable and left the cable modem. I quickly put a computer and the printer together and hooked up the cable modem. I got Comcast on the line and finished the install. By 4:00, we had the boarding passes printed. Everyone was plain wiped out at this point.

I took Adam and AJ back to the airport at 5:30 and headed home. We still had some residual stuff (we had way too much residual stuff...) to bring back but we were cooked...We made a plan for Saturday and called it quits for the night.

Saturday
We headed over to the house and loaded the van, truck, and trailer with "residual stuff" and headed back. We spent the rest of the day unpacking and arranging. By the end of the day, there wasn't a muscle or joint that wasn't aching...

Sunday
We headed back over to the house and loaded the van, truck, and trailer with "residual stuff" (I'm having deja vu here...) and headed back. We spent the rest of the morning unpacking. I headed back in the afternoon and picked up the rest of the stuff - the final residual... We unloaded, I showered, then we took the kids to Chuck-E-Cheese. We did not have the energy to chase the kids around that zoo. But...we perservered. The kids had a well-deserved good time and got to bed late (around 8:30)... We don't want to get into that habit!!

That's about it. There were some funny things that I was going to write about...but I'm waaaayyyyy too exhausted.

posted by Sam @ 8:27 PM