June 5th 2016: Moving Day Plus Bonus Church Fun
So June 5th (and a large part of the 6th) was the day my fiancée and I moved out of the basement I've called home since moving to Oregon last August and she's called home for 12 years or so despite owning the actual house (loooooooooong story). Now we had been dilagent about packing but as you'll see, just because we were down to the nitty-gritty little stuff, a combination of no help with said little stuff, exhaustion from working late into the nights previous days and the unnatural for Oregon -in- June heat we've had (90+ on that Sunday) plus the fact that she works 12 hour shifts at a paper mill and is 99.9% the muscle of the two of us, what should have taken a few hours, possibly finished by midnight meant we worked well into Monday morning.
Also, because it was Sunday, there was a ton of happenings at our chuch and I didn't want to skip out so that's in here too.
So even though it technically spread into the 6th, I consider it all one day because it encompasses from when I woke up to when I finally went to bed or just about.
Enjoy!
Wake up WAY too early (church isn't until 10:30 and it's not far at all- the only thing I'll miss about this particular house) but I can't go back to sleep and my future mother-in-law will be over in a few hours anyway, so I might as well be up. Also the weather thing lied - it EASILY hit 90 at the peak of the day.
I text the lady love at work, she's been there for nearly two hours at that point.
Text my mother, try to keep her in the loop as much as I can even though she's 3000 odd miles away, also text my mom's boyfriend good morning as well.
Breakfast of champions I know- this move has meant a lot of REALLY crappy eating, instead of the normal just mildly crappy eating we do.
Watch SuperCarlinBrothers on Youtube on the phone, because why not? Also because I want to try to clear the Epic Rap Battles of History that at are stuck in my head before church, LOL. (Rasputin Vs Stalin, mixed with Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters are this weeks special guests in the ever revolving playlist in my head)
Play this game- I'm OBSESSED with it. It's a find the hidden objects type game but it also has a bit a of a detective story going on.
My other obsession, but luckily I'm kind of terrible but too broke to pay for extra lives, so I can play through all 5 lives and be done in 10 minutes or less.
Buzzfeed for my daily 90s nostalgia kick plus other time killing things.
Only because my future mother-in-law and future brother-in-law will be in and out today for a bit do I bother making the mattress. Also, you forget how much the bedframe actually helps with propelling one's self out of bed until it no longer exists!
Finally kill enough time to get ready for church. Essentials
Dressed and ready. Aside from losing that white shrug top thing I'll be in that outfit for the next 26 hours or so.
Not pictured, my cutting the rose from the bushes to bring to the flower communion, or my future MIL coming to supervise my future BIL if he shows up before I get back from church (spoiler, he doesn't show until like 2 anyway)
10:20, which is late for the perpetually early side of me, but there was a ribbon cutting for the newly done back stairs almost as soon as I got there so I'm frantically marking my hymnal and getting adjusted. I HATE fumbling around for the hymn when our music director tells us to stand so I mark as soon as I know what hymns are being sung.
I'm still getting used to the name change, and though Untarian Universalist Congregation at Willamette Falls fits the church better than the former name(Atkinson Memorial Church), it is one heck of a mouthful. Also, LOTS going on and I didn't realize how out of focus. In short, there was : Child Dedication, then short ceremonies of transistion for children entering kindergarden, children entering middle school, children entering high school, and those that have graduated high school. Plus appreciation for the religious education teachers. THEN it was the flower communion.
In short, what it is is that each person brings a flower and sets it at the alter, then, when directed to, each person comes up and takes home a different flower.
Because we are running out of tape, I make a quick run to Rite Aid to get MORE tape. Then head home, only to find out that my future BIL hasn't been there yet. He is in charge of picking up the heavy things we can't get and taking them to our PODS unit and arrangeing it. Only then can we really start moving things. So until then...
I play more of these and otherwise derp around on the internet
Text the lady love and let her know what's going on and reassure her it's almost the end of her week (she was supposed to work Monday and Tuesday nights but took them off).
Not a lot pictured in between here because it's just too much going on, mostly me throwing things in cloth shopping bags to try to make it easy.
So fast forward to ABOUT 5:30 or 6
Our move in day was delayed (and still is unknown though we are 90% sure it will be this coming Sunday, June 12th) but we have to get out of the basement so the kid that bought the house can move into his bedroom space. So we are currently doing the hotel thing. We check in and J gets comfortable for a little bit before we have to move on with our day
Dinner. THIS will be the last thing we eat until we get breakfast at 9:50 or so the next morning. We REALLY weren't expecting it to take so long as it did or we would have gotten more than just a cheeseburger and fries and drink.
Lots of moving and packing and bringing stuff and doing that isn't photographed.
This is my "it's 2:30 in the morning and we're not even half way done" face. Also slightly starting to be majorly loopy from sleepiness.
Cleaned out closet!
The bedroom curtains we made custom by cutting down and hemming up some panels from Target.
Empty living room. More curtains
Where the dogs (currently staying with her parents) stayed most of the time
The place we kept a this island and what I called my "kitchen"- where I prepared what I could with an arsenal of slow-cooker, electric skillet, electric sauce pot and occasionally an oversized toaster oven- because we had no real kitchen.
The window, in front of which our first Christmas tree sat!
Last look at the house
You can barely see it but behind the Japanese maple there, that was essentially my bedroom window from August 4th 2015-June 4th 2016
McDonalds Breakfast stop
Finally back to the hotel.
So that ends that chapter in my life. Looking forward to the next one and all that come after it. Many more DITLs in the new house I'm sure!
Also, because it was Sunday, there was a ton of happenings at our chuch and I didn't want to skip out so that's in here too.
So even though it technically spread into the 6th, I consider it all one day because it encompasses from when I woke up to when I finally went to bed or just about.
Enjoy!
Wake up WAY too early (church isn't until 10:30 and it's not far at all- the only thing I'll miss about this particular house) but I can't go back to sleep and my future mother-in-law will be over in a few hours anyway, so I might as well be up. Also the weather thing lied - it EASILY hit 90 at the peak of the day.
I text the lady love at work, she's been there for nearly two hours at that point.
Text my mother, try to keep her in the loop as much as I can even though she's 3000 odd miles away, also text my mom's boyfriend good morning as well.
Breakfast of champions I know- this move has meant a lot of REALLY crappy eating, instead of the normal just mildly crappy eating we do.
Watch SuperCarlinBrothers on Youtube on the phone, because why not? Also because I want to try to clear the Epic Rap Battles of History that at are stuck in my head before church, LOL. (Rasputin Vs Stalin, mixed with Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters are this weeks special guests in the ever revolving playlist in my head)
Play this game- I'm OBSESSED with it. It's a find the hidden objects type game but it also has a bit a of a detective story going on.
My other obsession, but luckily I'm kind of terrible but too broke to pay for extra lives, so I can play through all 5 lives and be done in 10 minutes or less.
Buzzfeed for my daily 90s nostalgia kick plus other time killing things.
Only because my future mother-in-law and future brother-in-law will be in and out today for a bit do I bother making the mattress. Also, you forget how much the bedframe actually helps with propelling one's self out of bed until it no longer exists!
Finally kill enough time to get ready for church. Essentials
Dressed and ready. Aside from losing that white shrug top thing I'll be in that outfit for the next 26 hours or so.
Not pictured, my cutting the rose from the bushes to bring to the flower communion, or my future MIL coming to supervise my future BIL if he shows up before I get back from church (spoiler, he doesn't show until like 2 anyway)
10:20, which is late for the perpetually early side of me, but there was a ribbon cutting for the newly done back stairs almost as soon as I got there so I'm frantically marking my hymnal and getting adjusted. I HATE fumbling around for the hymn when our music director tells us to stand so I mark as soon as I know what hymns are being sung.
I'm still getting used to the name change, and though Untarian Universalist Congregation at Willamette Falls fits the church better than the former name(Atkinson Memorial Church), it is one heck of a mouthful. Also, LOTS going on and I didn't realize how out of focus. In short, there was : Child Dedication, then short ceremonies of transistion for children entering kindergarden, children entering middle school, children entering high school, and those that have graduated high school. Plus appreciation for the religious education teachers. THEN it was the flower communion.
In short, what it is is that each person brings a flower and sets it at the alter, then, when directed to, each person comes up and takes home a different flower.
Because we are running out of tape, I make a quick run to Rite Aid to get MORE tape. Then head home, only to find out that my future BIL hasn't been there yet. He is in charge of picking up the heavy things we can't get and taking them to our PODS unit and arrangeing it. Only then can we really start moving things. So until then...
I play more of these and otherwise derp around on the internet
Text the lady love and let her know what's going on and reassure her it's almost the end of her week (she was supposed to work Monday and Tuesday nights but took them off).
Not a lot pictured in between here because it's just too much going on, mostly me throwing things in cloth shopping bags to try to make it easy.
So fast forward to ABOUT 5:30 or 6
Our move in day was delayed (and still is unknown though we are 90% sure it will be this coming Sunday, June 12th) but we have to get out of the basement so the kid that bought the house can move into his bedroom space. So we are currently doing the hotel thing. We check in and J gets comfortable for a little bit before we have to move on with our day
Dinner. THIS will be the last thing we eat until we get breakfast at 9:50 or so the next morning. We REALLY weren't expecting it to take so long as it did or we would have gotten more than just a cheeseburger and fries and drink.
Lots of moving and packing and bringing stuff and doing that isn't photographed.
This is my "it's 2:30 in the morning and we're not even half way done" face. Also slightly starting to be majorly loopy from sleepiness.
Cleaned out closet!
The bedroom curtains we made custom by cutting down and hemming up some panels from Target.
Empty living room. More curtains
Where the dogs (currently staying with her parents) stayed most of the time
The place we kept a this island and what I called my "kitchen"- where I prepared what I could with an arsenal of slow-cooker, electric skillet, electric sauce pot and occasionally an oversized toaster oven- because we had no real kitchen.
The window, in front of which our first Christmas tree sat!
Last look at the house
You can barely see it but behind the Japanese maple there, that was essentially my bedroom window from August 4th 2015-June 4th 2016
McDonalds Breakfast stop
Finally back to the hotel.
So that ends that chapter in my life. Looking forward to the next one and all that come after it. Many more DITLs in the new house I'm sure!