yep, everybody is settling in very well over here.

even Esmerelda who has discovered a new favorite Chair to shed all over, I mean ( nap on )

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things are finally settling down around here.
we're mostly unpacked (except for the books, which we have no place to put, as we could not fit the book cases on the truck)

this apartment is HUGE compared to our old place. we picked up a couch, two cushy chairs, a wardrobe (but no Narnia), and a small table from the stuff my grandparents gave to my mom, and we still have TONS of room.

we have an actual living room, a nice sized kitchen (with a pantry!!)
a dining room area, including a closet to hang coats and hide the vacuum and such things.
the bedroom is a good sized, and the closet is HUGE compared to our old one, thanks to the extra closet space and the wardrobe, Bill can finally put away all his clothes instead of piling the up in a corner!
the bathroom is actually slightly smaller than the one in our old place, BUT the toilet and sink both work perfectly, and the water pressure is amazing.

Esmeralda has adjusted quite well, she still yowls occasionally at night, but it's not too terrible. She loves the large picture window in the living room with its wide sill, and sits there for hours watching people come and go. it's particularly amusing to watch her have her daily cat crazies on the tiled floor. she's crashed into the linen closet a couple times already. (yes, a linen closet, I am in heaven!)

Bill finished up his week of orientation even more excited than before, and can't wait until classes begin on Monday.
meanwhile, I'm working my way into a domestic routine of house cleaning and cooking and other such things.
it's amazing, everything looks so airy and nice here, that I am really motivated to keep it clean and nice, before our old place was so dingy, cluttered and dark, that it never really looked all that much different clean verses dirty.

and the kitchen is so nice that I don't get stressed out when I try to cook, it's awesome! I haven't wanted to really do a lot of cooking at home in ages because our old kitchen was so cramped and messy, I could never find anything, and there was no place to do food prep. but here I know where everything is and we have tons of counter space and a nice big table to work on. Bill and I have already had a "argument" over who gets to cook dinner more. (he likes cooking beaus it's a de-stresser for him after a hard day at school.)

there was a little problem with laundry the other day, but it seemed to be an isolated incident:
two separate people left their clothing in the dryers and never came back for them. (there are only two washers and two dryers in our laundry room) one of them left their stuff for over 12 hours! we were forced to remove the clothing from one dryer so that we could finish our laundry. it was a bit annoying, but over all I haven't really noticed the laundry room being all that terribly busy, and every other time I've needed to use it it's been deserted.

ok enough rambling for now, next time, more about how awesome Troy and Albany are!

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Current Mood: chipper

phase three of operation oh-shit-oh-shit-we're-moving did NOT go off without a hitch.

the move was HELL.
we fully admit that we probably should have started packing earlier, and there was a lot of loose stuff still by the time we got the moving truck.
then we had too much stuff.
a large majority of our possessions and about 80% of what was boxed up was books. unfortunately, the book cases didn't fit on to the truck, so we had to leave them behind. this means that we have a room full of boxes of books which we have no place to put. this also sucks because this is supposed to be Tommy's room, so we will eventually need it to be empty.

then there was the rain. yeah, it was supposed to be clear here when we moved, so while hot, it should have been relatively easy to just haul everything inside and go. but then we got hit by thunderstorms and poor Bill was soaked and a lot of stuff couldn't be brought in without suffering water damage, so there were long periods of waiting for the rain to stop. and really, we probably should have had a few extra hands helping, but we thought we would be ok, and Bills arms kept cramping up, and the next day he looked like somebody had beaten the crap out of his arms. :(

we didn't finally finish bringing everything in until 11:30, and it would have been a 4 hour drive back home for Bill's dad, who was a major help with the hauling, and had been driving the moving truck, so we made him stay overnight on the couch, and he headed off in the morning. My parents had things that needed to be done in the morning, so refused to stay or get a room, so they headed home. and left me worrying until they called in the morning.

thankfully, that seems to be the worst of it. we slept in yesterday and this morning. and have been slowly puttering around unpacking things. the kitchen has been fully unpacked and put away, and we've already gone on a few exploratory shopping trips to check out the local supermarkets (and to buy a shower curtain).
the living room is mostly done, but for one area which needs Bill to find the long phone cord so we can hook the computer up. (the only phone port is in the kitchen, with no convenient place to put the computer, so we need a long cord to reach the nearest convenient set up place.) right now, the computer is set up on the dining room table, and we have to limbo under the hanging phone cord if we want to go into the kitchen.

the bedroom is a mess, as most of our linens and clothing were just shoved into bags and tossed into the room. but I plan on tackling that tomorrow while Bill is at his first day of TA orientation. overall everything here has been awesome. even Esmeralda is settling in wonderfully. (although shes yowling a bit more at night, we think she misses Cayenne.) the living room has a large picture widow with a nice wide ledge that she loves to lay on and watch the world go by, and she has been especially lovey and cuddly.

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Current Location: home, finally
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