mandysee_mandydo | Moving Update

e're almost all moved in, which is very good. We have some odds and end in the kitchen, the bathroom stuff, some papers and odds and ends in the living room, and our clothes (well, the clothes that were already clean and didn't get washed in the laundry tonight) to move over to the new place. We ended up getting a 5x10 storage unit for a couple of bookcases, our freezer and some boxes at least for the short-term, maybe longer. We're putting the National Geographics in storage because we simply don't have room for them. We're also putting some art supplies in storage. I have a load or two of boxes to move over there tomorrow, plus the stuff I'm giving to the church for the yard sale.

It's a good thing we got rid of a bunch of stuff, because we're in tight quarters now in the one-bedroom apartment on campus. Things got a bit more spacious in some regards, but also tighter, when we arrived to find that the bed that comes with the apartment had not ben removed per our request. This means we will be sleeping on a twin bed. Not we each get a twin bed, but we have to share a twin bed. Yuck. Well, it's incentive to lose weight, that's for sure. We'll fit, but not very comfortably. The bed sits high enough that should it not work out we can get another twin mattress that can stow away under the bed and slide out to sleep on the floor next to the bed. It's almost full circle, really, because when

painted_wolf and I first started spending the night with each other we used to share one of these dorm beds often.

Tomorrow I'll be busy moving the last of our stuff and possible cleaning. Woot. I'll just be happy when it's over, but honestly this has been one of the easiest moves I think I've ever had. Almost everything was packed and ready to go! We're already more than half, possibly around 2/3 or 3/4 unpacked. We really had no choice because there's just not a lot of space in the new apartment to leave things packed. We'd have no room to live.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. - Charles Caleb Colton