Hey all, I’ve finally reached the other side of our whole moving adventure. We ended up moving on Friday, but due to technical difficulties we only got the internet setup tonight. Either way I’m happy things seem to be falling into place. I know I’ve heard people say that there is no such thing as a smooth move and I can agree with that after ours.

We had lined up the delivery of a stainless steel fridge and stove for this past Saturday, bought them 2 months in advance and figured we would be good to go. We receive a call on Thursday from Sears telling us the fridge was on backorder and wouldn’t be delivered until the 26th, which was pretty much unacceptable. As luck would have it, the appliances we originally said we didn’t want were left in the house by the previous owners, so we weren’t totally screwed. Either way, I negotiated to get another comparable fridge, but even that couldn’t be delivered until Wednesday. So we’ll finally have a working kitchen as of tomorrow night and be actually able to buy groceries.

We purchased a brand new couch a couple of weeks ago, thinking that it was smaller then the big couch we already had. Our basement staircase is pretty tight, so we knew we might be in for a battle. On move-in day we try to get the larger couch down first, without any luck. Then we tried to finess the new couch down the stairs and discovered it just wouldn’t budge either. I have to say this was about the last thing I wanted to deal with. The next morning my buddy Curtis and I decided another approach, the brute force method. We pushed it into the stairwell and made a nice hole in the ceiling. The way I looked at it was having a couch in the basement was way more important then any damage we could do to the ceiling.

All in all the experience has definitely been fun, if a little stressful. I’m just glad that my life can take on some semblance of sanity after the 3 months of moving related chaos.