I asked to leave at 2:30 and one of the guys at work said I need you, you have to stay to work on a project. I’m like ok sure I don’t mind I will stay so I’m like tell me what it is. He says I have to talk to someone else and if I don’t talk to him by 3 then you can leave. This was at like 2:30 I’m like alright, so at 3:15 I go over and I’m like whats going on. I MSN the guy that is supposed to tell me what to do. I do 10 minutes after I msn him he says wait a sec, I’m like alright, so at 4:05 after I’ve been sitting here waiting I’m like can this wait or can I go he says oh yeah, I guess go, we can show you on Monday. UGH! Like come on!
Aaron picked me up and we went to Ikea, I was like great idea Friday night it won’t be busy. So I was like since we’re here lets pick up the table, it’s a great table that we’ve both fallen in love with, I know a table, it’s a black brown solid oak table. Sits 6 but can expand to 10 people. Just plain beautiful. So we get the table and 2 chairs because the chairs at like $75 each. So we go over to the other Ikea pick up and the table and it doesn’t fit not even close. Sigh… I call my mom and their truck is 31” and we needed 38”. So after 15 minutes and of course it was -30 weather, we have to go back and return it. So after all that we go to the condo with 2 chairs and no table.
Anyways we drop the chairs off and went back to my parents house, Aaron wanted to organize all the boxes. So we put plastic down and brought all the boxes up from the basement and in to the garage and then the boxes from the room into the garage. That way it was all organized. We finally went to sleep at around 10, so it wasn’t a late night.
The next morning up at 6:30 and we started right away. We brought more stuff up and then left to get the truck. We started with the boxs but then of course we wanted to make sure that we got all the heavy furniture in just incase we had to do a second load, wich surprisingly enough we didn’t have to, thanks to Aaron’s fabulous organizational skills. Everything was loaded by 9:30 and we headed over to the house. We pulled up and we started unloading, Mom and I inside, in the 6 degree room and everyone else outside in -30. So we were able to unload everything by 10:30 and then it was to get the stuff down stairs. I was surprised at how much actually fit so easily. But the bed frame not so much the walls are worse for wear and it still didn’t go down. We left it and moved everything else down.
After that since we still had time with the truck we headed over to Ikea because I wanted that table. So we got there as fast as a Uhal truck with 290,000kms would take us. I ran in, saw the same girl as that night previous and asked her to ring up the table for me again… ran to the check out, luckily I found a cash that was open that had 2 people in line, paid for it for a second time. Then ran all the way over to where Aaron was parked and took the truck over to the pickup location, which then of course the truck didn’t fit down the parking lot because its was blocked by a big truck and a van Aaron pulled around the building but was still further away then the actually door, I ran down picked up the table ran it down the road to the truck, loaded the 100lbs table in to the truck and ran the cart back. We got back in the car and drove back to the condo, got the table in the house some how and then we went to return the truck. We finally finished there. Woo Hoo!
After we got the table in we got in the house and actually turned up the heat and started moving the boxes to the right rooms. We got the majority down and where it belonged. We started to unpack. At around 5 we went over to Mom’s and had dinner and got more boxes and of course little Miss Teaka, we came home and she was just a scared little thing but I think because all the boxes smelled like her and it was all of our stuff I think she adjusted just fine. We stayed up till I think around 9ish which was about all that we could handle and we slept.
We got up at 8:30 and got ready went to MacDonald’s for breakfast and then off to Ikea for blinds, I was starting to actually see the same staff…We found great curtains, expensive but very nice. We also grabbed a lamp since we have no lights and then we headed to the superstore where we spent way too much money on groceries and found more things we like over there in the furniture section. We put all the stuff away and we got stuff organized all over the house. Finally it was functional.
Mom called us to come for dinner even though I had chicken out for dinner. We went over there and grabbed more of our stuff and then headed home. We got home and again started unpacking more things. We don’t actually have anything in the living room but with all the boxes we have it's pretty full. I went to bed around 10 but poor Aaron had to stay up but he organized the spare room and I fell asleep. So this morning I was up at 6, I’m lucky I can leave 20 minutes later and actually get to work like 15 minutes earlier then before, so its wicked! I’m pretty sore and tired.
We don’t have TV or internet yet so it will encourage me to get things done around the house. And to get to bed early. We’ll have to get it later but not right now.
Next step is to clean all the boxes out and get organized. You don’t realize how much stuff you have until you have to put it all away somewhere. But the living room looks very model homeish, which I love.
The curtains we bought look great but they are made super long so that I had to cut them because of the heaters on the floor. They give you strip adhesive so that you can cut and iron them on. WELL you’d think that it would be easy enough it took me like 2 hours to do 6 curtains, and I was mad. But they are up and I swear it they were a millimeter longer they’d be too long, but they sit just on the register so it’s not great but I’m NOT going to tear them apart again. The curtains are like 4 feet wide by 7 feet tall…Anyways they are up and look good that’s all that matters.
So thats is the big move. I know spelling and stuff sucks, but I'm tired and really don't know where my fingers are at the moment. :)
