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Sep. 4th, 2015 08:56 pmMost of the move is done! Eric came by first, then Irene with her dolly, then Mac and Rudi came, and we worked from 9am to about noon getting stuff from one apartment to the other. It went mostly smoothly, with some highlights:
- JC is not a good packer, and he packed a lot of his books in extremely large boxes, which weren't even packed to full capacity. He then piled stuff on those boxes, and their sides weighed down, and yeah... STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY FAIL! So when Irene tried to get that box on the dolly, it busted at the bottom. Eric came and got it anyway, and as he walked, the box, well, basically shat books along the way, and Irene had to pick it up. Which I think is kind of hilarious.
- Rudi and Eric handled the couch, with Irene guiding, then Eric and Mac handled the mattresses. Apparently JC's mattress, which was in the living room behind the couch, had a black widow spider on it, eek!
Around 11am, I started making food, and the drip bowl of the oven (which is a crappy old one, ngl) wasn't quite right so I went to ask for help. A maintenance guy came over to check it out, and he was like, "I know you. Haven't you lived here for a while?" Turns out that, sometime last year I had baked cookies and basically offered them to the maintenance guys working around my apartment, and he recognized me from that. Proof that people do remember nice little things like that! I'll have to bake more cookies.
I made some bak kut teh (forgot the soya sauce at the end tho), and a veggie curry (used potatoes, brinjals, large-cut onions, and bok choy bottoms, left the tops uncooked for variety). Also some pilaf. It was muchly appreciated. I muchly appreciated the help. Generally I muchly appreciated the day, even though I'm not sure I muchly appreciate the new apartment or having to move to a different one.
PROS:
- New apartment has vinyl floors!!!! I'm so excited. They're almost like hardwood floors. It's SO GREAT. Only the bedrooms have carpets. SO EXCITING. Excite excite excite.
- There's a plugpoint by the kitchen which also has a USB charger! Which I think is hilarious! Definitely setting up the corner shelf next to it and putting the modem there. Might have to wind it around a bit to keep the thing steady.
CONS:
- My bedroom is a lot smaller than it currently is, and definitely cannot fit my L-table and bed and two shelves in it. I have no idea how to arrange things in there, especially since right now there's SO MUCH STUFF. I definitely want to be able to arrange things so that it can be more easily cleaned, and I don't want to prop my feet up against walls anymore (my walls are filthy right now as a result), so I've got the bed facing the window, with space all around it. But no idea how to fit the table around it. Might even have to get a new table, blargh!
- At no point does my new garden get shade! There will be shade on the patio itself, but not on the garden. It's so barren! It may stay barren! Wah! My worms are going to be so unhappy =(
I'm procrastinating right now because I don't want to give up my internet just yet, and there's nothing to do at my new place but unpack. The AT&T guy comes tomorrow though, so... hopefully I won't be without internet for too long?
So I'm finishing the odds and ends at the old apartment, cleaning the fan blades and whatnot. Gonna vacuum the floors a bit before I take it over, and I'm down to maybe three more trips (worms, stepstools, internet.
- JC is not a good packer, and he packed a lot of his books in extremely large boxes, which weren't even packed to full capacity. He then piled stuff on those boxes, and their sides weighed down, and yeah... STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY FAIL! So when Irene tried to get that box on the dolly, it busted at the bottom. Eric came and got it anyway, and as he walked, the box, well, basically shat books along the way, and Irene had to pick it up. Which I think is kind of hilarious.
- Rudi and Eric handled the couch, with Irene guiding, then Eric and Mac handled the mattresses. Apparently JC's mattress, which was in the living room behind the couch, had a black widow spider on it, eek!
Around 11am, I started making food, and the drip bowl of the oven (which is a crappy old one, ngl) wasn't quite right so I went to ask for help. A maintenance guy came over to check it out, and he was like, "I know you. Haven't you lived here for a while?" Turns out that, sometime last year I had baked cookies and basically offered them to the maintenance guys working around my apartment, and he recognized me from that. Proof that people do remember nice little things like that! I'll have to bake more cookies.
I made some bak kut teh (forgot the soya sauce at the end tho), and a veggie curry (used potatoes, brinjals, large-cut onions, and bok choy bottoms, left the tops uncooked for variety). Also some pilaf. It was muchly appreciated. I muchly appreciated the help. Generally I muchly appreciated the day, even though I'm not sure I muchly appreciate the new apartment or having to move to a different one.
PROS:
- New apartment has vinyl floors!!!! I'm so excited. They're almost like hardwood floors. It's SO GREAT. Only the bedrooms have carpets. SO EXCITING. Excite excite excite.
- There's a plugpoint by the kitchen which also has a USB charger! Which I think is hilarious! Definitely setting up the corner shelf next to it and putting the modem there. Might have to wind it around a bit to keep the thing steady.
CONS:
- My bedroom is a lot smaller than it currently is, and definitely cannot fit my L-table and bed and two shelves in it. I have no idea how to arrange things in there, especially since right now there's SO MUCH STUFF. I definitely want to be able to arrange things so that it can be more easily cleaned, and I don't want to prop my feet up against walls anymore (my walls are filthy right now as a result), so I've got the bed facing the window, with space all around it. But no idea how to fit the table around it. Might even have to get a new table, blargh!
- At no point does my new garden get shade! There will be shade on the patio itself, but not on the garden. It's so barren! It may stay barren! Wah! My worms are going to be so unhappy =(
I'm procrastinating right now because I don't want to give up my internet just yet, and there's nothing to do at my new place but unpack. The AT&T guy comes tomorrow though, so... hopefully I won't be without internet for too long?
So I'm finishing the odds and ends at the old apartment, cleaning the fan blades and whatnot. Gonna vacuum the floors a bit before I take it over, and I'm down to maybe three more trips (worms, stepstools, internet.