A thankful moment
Oct. 23rd, 2009 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseMid-move right now. Everything's going remarkably smoothly, even including the suddenly-leaving-four-days-earlier-than-we-thought aspect. The house is a wreck (of course), but we've got most of the big stuff sold. My car is paid for and turned over to a new owner who's a very sweet lady, quite happy to have it and willing to be flexible/trusting on the paperwork (which I'm eternally grateful for, given that getting the title from the lienholder is turning out to be a long damn process). Bed and one bookcase are gone, and much of the remaining furniture is spoken for; everything we're shipping is on pallets and waiting for the barge to leave, as is the car we're keeping; cats have carriers and Valium for the plane ride; lease is signed for the place in AZ and the landlord doesn't mind that we're arriving early; air tickets are set to go.
It certainly hasn't been easy; we're both tired and there's still a lot to do. The housecooling party is tomorrow and there's a lot of cleaning/organizing that needs to be done before people come over. Donna's coming over to help with that, though, and after it's just a matter of donating or dumping the stuff we can't get rid of, cleaning up the apartment (hooray for landlords who will actually be in town for a walkthrough), and heading out. Crazy stuff.
Relocating one's life is never a simple task, especially from someplace as remote as Alaska. But given what a nightmare our last move was (just going across town), I'm rather grateful that this one's been so smooth.
It certainly hasn't been easy; we're both tired and there's still a lot to do. The housecooling party is tomorrow and there's a lot of cleaning/organizing that needs to be done before people come over. Donna's coming over to help with that, though, and after it's just a matter of donating or dumping the stuff we can't get rid of, cleaning up the apartment (hooray for landlords who will actually be in town for a walkthrough), and heading out. Crazy stuff.
Relocating one's life is never a simple task, especially from someplace as remote as Alaska. But given what a nightmare our last move was (just going across town), I'm rather grateful that this one's been so smooth.
