Moving Day

Dad & Walter are coming over this morning to help me move. The outside help that I was going to have, got sick! Who would have imagined? That's okay though. We'll get it done, it'll just take a bit longer than I thought it would.

Well, I woke up this morning and looked outside only to actually see SNOW on the ground. The weather report was calling for it, but as usual for here it is a little unbelievable. It hardly ever snows when it is forecast to do so...but here it is all nice and white. It wasn't suppose to stick to the ground either, but...it did anyway. It is just going to be a lovely WET day to move. Thank goodness I've got some tarps that we can cover the furniture in so it will stay relatively dry.

I'll catch up from the days events here:

We started out with snow this morning and I got a bit spooked, so I had Walter pick up a U-Haul to expedite the move. They didn't have any of the traditional trucks so we ended up with a cargo van, which was adequate for the move. While Walt was engaged with getting the truck, Dad and I loaded up his pick-up with the bedroom furniture and a couple of other pieces.

Walt arrived with the truck shortly afterwards and the remaining pieces went into the van - All fitting quite nicely if I do say so myself. Of course, we delivered the first "loads" to the apartment without a hitch. We headed back out to the house to get the final stuff, and you know it isn't everything, because the house isn't closed up and the keys aren't into someon elses' hands yet...

Anyway, we pick up the majority of the remaining items and headed off to Dad's to get the boxes that I had there. Oops then and there was the beginning of the only problem with the move. The van we had was a 2006 Ford ..., when we got out of the truck and closed the passenger side door, every door in that darn truck locked automatically. Now what was really strange was that all the door lock indicators appeared to be unlocked. Please note here that all of our keys were in the console of the car as was Walter's cell phone. I had a brief meltdown, while Walter talked with U-Haul. [I talked with the local office first and got aggravated.]

Turns out that the doors locking was a really freak thing. No one at U-Haul's 800 number had heard anything like it, but the vehicle was under warranty from Ford - so they sent out a locksmith. Who upon arriving, I think questioned our sanity - because the locks were in the up position - until he tried the doors himself. He used a slim jim on the door and presto we were back in business.

The good thing that came out of being locked out was that we had time to stop and eat lunch without racing the clock to get the truck back. U-Haul suspended the rental time until the locksmith got us back into the vehicle. That was about a little over an hour.

Once we had the remaining boxes packed from Mom & Dad's house, we went to the local Midas to give blood. I know too much in one day, but the Midas blood drive here gives you a free oil change each time you give blood, plus other things as the drive goes on over the summer. Walter give blood without a problem, but I tried again, but still couldn't - my iron level is too low for them, but it is in the normal range.

We finally got all the remaining boxes and stuff into the apartment, which by this point looked liked something had exploded in it. But we were able to get the truck back to U-Haul within a half-hour of our original return time.

The boxes were but under control during the evening and I finally have got some semblence of order before heading off to bed.

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Thought for the Day: "The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." --Dale Carnegie