Unpacking
The company called us at 7 this morning - way too early in my opinion, but at least that meant the containers would be there a large portion of the day for us to unpack. I was exhausted - from our trip, from unpacking the car on Friday, and from yesterday. We did go exploring - on the bikes - around campus, trying to find the best way for me to get to class, or for the time being, orientation. I haven’t gotten that much physical activity in a couple of weeks, having spent most of our time in the car. I’ll get used to it though, especially when Kris has the car all day at work.
So they have a lot of cool stuff for people around here, and one thing is dollies for you to borrow. I’d reserved one for today, thinking it’s a bit of a walk (though thankfully downhill) from the lot to our apartment. The place I reserved it from wasn’t open until 2. Bit of a quandary. If I’d reserved it for an earlier time, how the heck was I supposed to get it for my time if the place wasn’t open for 3 more hours? Well, we started the unpacking process with the smaller items from our two containers (which, by the way arrived pretty much untouched - a bit of residue from the wood and cardboard boxes on a few things, but otherwise undamaged. Of course, this isn’t considering that one of our locks was sheared off as they took the container out of storage earlier - oops….), taking our time until my reservation. We moved the boxes in, unpacked a few at a time, went back for more. Finally it was time. Thinking someone *might* be there since I’d made the reservation, I went to the place. Nobody there. Frustration abounded. We took a lunch break, and I took a nap.
During my nap, Kris was majorly productive, and unpacked most of both of the boxes. The place was finally about to open, so I made yet another trip. Got the cart no problem, except the girl there told me the girl the previous day *should* have told me to call a number so I could have someone meet me there earlier. And you think she would have because she was in the housing office when we arrived, AND asked if we were moving in or out. *le sigh* I don’t get people sometimes.
Anyway, the flatbed cart made it SO much easier to bring everything else in, including our bed, big furniture, and heaviest boxes. We were finished with cart in two hours. It’ll be so nice to sleep in a real bed tonight! (Kris’s bed was always so comfy anyway!) We’re not completely unpacked from the boxes, but we made pretty good progress. And thankfully, I have orientation only during the morning *most* days, for two weeks. Gotta get back to unpacking now though.
