Thursday, July 17, 2008

impressivo!

man, JC and I knocked out that apartment in a total of nine hours. luckily, we had packed up 75% of the place before we even left so that helped  a lot.

a moving review (cue bad pun music): we landed at 10pm EST on tuesday night. we then got to our apartment around 11:15pm and instead of sleeping we worked on the upstairs part. we crashed around 1am. i got up a little before 8am yesterday and worked on the downstairs starting in the kitchen. we had two big grey bins, one with media and the other with kitchen appliances, etc. i decided we should bring the contents of the kitchenware box with us and have the dvds/cds shipped. my sister wanted the bed that we slept on so we hauled that thirty miles and then caravaned back up to the apartment with my brother and he and josh loaded up the washer/dryer and then packed up the car for our move. i did that whole traditional woman thing and cleaned up the apartment and organized things while they provided brute strength. i didn't mind because it was a 89 degrees. that's with a  heat index of 92 so...yeah. the worst rental company ever, aka our landlords, had not yet fixed our AC so it was almost as hot inside so i got good and stinky. we loaded everything, JC and I said goodbye to the place we'd called home for 9 months and that was it. there was little emotion on my part, i had viewed our apartment as just that- a very temporary living space. it was often visited by bugs due to the ridiculous amount of pine straw that managment felt necessary to keep outside our door. ugh.

i spent last night riding around downtown atlanta to (a) pick up our half-sister who is in from nc for a visit and (b) JC and I trying to ship our media via greyhound. stupid greyhound. they said it weighed too much so we're going to try UPS today.

i played spades and gave my niece many, many hugs. it was a good day.

what i am most proud of is that i prayed HARD that i would maintain a good attitude and not bite someone's (JC) head off due to heat, heavy objects, etc. and it worked. i dare say i even had fun doing it. no doubt the presence of my brother, a very strong 6'4", 270 lbs football player type, helped but i really didn't ever feel too annoyed. a truly impressive feat for me.

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