Moving day, again

After a weekend spent moving things to the new place with Dirk & Kari (all the stuff they had stored for me) and with Michele & Chuck (all the stuff I had shipped from back East), today is the big moving day. At least I think it is - my boss Deeta's son Brady (home from college for the week) left here this morning with the U-Haul truck and I haven't heard a word since. I figure if he was dead in a ditch someone would have called us by now, so my assumption is that my storage locker out in the Valley is currently being dismantled and all that stuff will appear in my living room by tonight. I'm also sending him on side trips to pick up a few other pieces that have wandered here and there.

Deeta said to me this morning that if it would feel better to me to go along out there with Brady, it was okay for me to be gone from work...I said why in the world would I want to do that when I could hand him $200, a gas card and my house key and let the magic happen!?!?!?

With the money I saved on movers, I have bought a truly ugly couch which is delivered on Wednesday. On Friday, it's out to the Valley to pick up the Grand Am where it's parked at George and Becky's, and getting snow tires put on it. So then I can drive it back here to town. By Friday they should also have the programming done on my fast internet connection - the phone company had an incredible deal on local/longdist/DSL and I should be able to pick up that equipment and take it home to hook up. On Fri or Sat, Mary Ann and John are bringing a few more furniture items over. On Monday morning, the TV dish gets moved. (On Monday night, Keith will not be speaking to me unless he's managed to get his own dish by then - the same phone company has a great deal on all of the above plus a dish install.)

And with that it's all over except the unpacking, which with FOP deadlines looming and a trip East for the holidays (hey, didn't I just leave there?) I figure the unpacking will start sometime in January.

In comparison - Hunter visited the place yesterday and pooped in the yard, so he's all moved in.