So I’m sitting on my couch surrounded by piles of boxes and packing material, but my stuff and I are officially moved into my new place. It’s still a bit surreal, since the time between starting to look, finding the place, signing the lease, and moving was so quick after so many weeks of prepping to look at apartments. But still, I’m very happy with the place.
I’ve been sick this week, which has not helped anything. I came home from work on Wednesday because I was feeling awful, and spent the afternoon curled up in bed. Allison brought me frozen yogurt to try to make me feel better. On Thursday morning, I was feeling better, but not well enough to go in, so I worked from home all day. I think being sick and not resting turned out to be a stupid plan, because by the end of the day I had a fever of 101 and was lying in bed shivering. Again, Allison saved the day by going to the store and getting me juice and sorbet, and then bringing me things as I needed them. I see now why she is so valuable to the Stanford psych department. She must bring them juice too. On Friday, I spent the day resting. I made it through the movie, but I still feel a little under the weather.
The move itself went quickly. Budget ended up moving my truck rental to Foster City, which was a bit of a drag since it added an extra few minutes of driving on each side. My uncle volunteered to drive the truck, so he, Blake and I went down there around 8, except that none of the employees that had the power to rent vehicles were there, despite the place opening at 7. When they finally arrived and it was my turn, they told me they didn’t have a 10′ truck for me, and instead rented us a 24′ truck at the 10′ price. One on hand, it was really nice to have the extra room. On the other hand, it would have been nice to not take out so many tree branches in the process. Since we had a ridiculous amount of room in the truck compared to the amount of stuff I had, we didn’t have to stack any boxes, which eliminated the need to keep things from tipping during the move. One unfortunate casualty was my desk, which probably got weakened from sitting in the garage. (Because of that, I avoided unpacking my office stuff, not knowing if I’m going to use a table that I have as a desk, or if I’m going to go buy a new one. But I’ve unpacking my most important things, so I can watch TiVo and get online. Oh yeah, and my sheets were moderately important too, I suppose.) All in all, the main move went pretty quickly. We got everything from the moving truck into my apartment without issue, and then got the truck back before our 2pm deadline. Because I’d hassled the guy about being late, he knocked $10 off the truck rental price, which was pretty awesome. In the afternoon, I loaded my more fragile items (computers, TV, etc) into my mom’s van and brought another load down. I managed to keep everything moderately organized, so there hasn’t been too much stacking and restacking of boxes.
And it must be said that Rachel R. O. C. K. S. Because of her labeling when we packed up my things in September, everything was super organized and labeled. When I remembered I needed my alarm clock at 12:30 this morning, I was able to go right to the box that contained it.
And speaking of rocking, Butch Walker is playing in San Francisco in September in support of his upcoming album “The Rise and Fall of… Butch Walker and The Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites” which is now available for pre-order. I’m so very excited.
Sean was in town today, so I spent the day with he, Chris, and Jua (plus a smattering of Jeff, Kevin, and Andrea throughout) doing various wandering throughout the mall, playing video games, seeing a movie (
and 
) for twelve and ten bucks, respectively. To put in perspective how good this “sale” is, I saved about $3 (total!) off what I would have paid at Amazon. But that’s not what I wanted to talk about. When they said everything, they meant everything. They were selling the vacuum, file cabinets, the security gates, the DVD racks, the minifridge from the back office. I’ve never seen “everything” taken so literally.
