Moved in

We haven't been posting because (1) we've been crazy busy and (2) we don't have internet at home any more. We got temporary dial-up yesterday evening, and hopefully our cable will be installed on Friday. I like the internet.

Anyway, we had a successful move on Saturday. Three friends came over and helped out (bless your hearts!), and the rain stayed away until we were finished. They departed, and we picked up a few more things we needed from Home Depot, got dinner, made an appearance at our dojo, and decided to start redoing the hot water plumbing at about 9pm. That was a mistake, because we didn't get finished until a little after 4am. The pex was wonderful to work with, but there were some leaks where the pex was attaching to the valves for the faucets. Oy. We did find out why there was no hot water pressure, though- the pipes were corroded shut. They're fine now, though! We fixed the leaks on Monday, so the water pressure is fine and the water is clean and hot.

Back to Sunday morning. We went back to our apartment, showered, went back to the rat hole, and got to bed about 4:45am. We got up at 8:30 to take the moving van back to U-Haul. It was a beautiful and sunny morning, so although we hadn't slept much, we decided to run errands, and then we went back to take a nap for a few hours. I went to my back massage appointment while my spouse worked on getting the dryer plug to fit (the old stuff wasn't compatible with our new dryer plug), and he finally just had to drill holes in the old face plate after an unsuccessful trip to the hardware store. That evening we started up the washing machine only to encounter a horrible, horrible clanging noise. It took some doing to get the front panel off the washer, but when we finally did, we realized that the wash drum thingey was actually scraping against a dent in the bottom. The previous owners must have used a hand truck to move the thing and dented it. Several swings of a hammer later and it was fixed. Funny- we'd never used a hammer to FIX something before. Whatever works!

Monday was spent fixnig up the plumbing, as mentioned before, and getting some cleaning done. Okay, all the cleaning done. Twelve hours of cleaning yielded one clean apartment, and then we were out. It was really sad. We both cried, because we'd had some wonderful times in that apartment. It was also where we really started our life together. We'll take the memories with us, though, and it'll be okay. We're still settling in at the rat hole, trying to remember where we put stuff and trying to find new homes for things. It'll work itself out.

Now the real fun can begin. ^_^