So we are between homes now. We have several generous friends, who while they are out of town vacationing, allowing us to house sit for them. And really it is allow as they would normally have no one.
Our move out was quite complicated with one thing after another, not enough storage in the pods, getting another storage space locally and running out of room st 1:30 am in it, and having to wait until the next day to be able to rent another space and a U-haul to finish. The new owners had scheduled workers to come in and clean carpets etc, and were concerned we would be in the way. We scurried to have everything in the garage and out of the house as we waited for U-haul to open, meanwhile trying to clean the house as we have never left a house dirty before this. We notified our Realtor of the issue and that we couldn't do anything else before 9 am, and instead of trying to soothe things over, she sent us a bunch of nasty text saying we were trespassing, and that we could have the police called on us, to make us vacate the house. REALLY- we were trying to make things reasonable, not a turmoil.And what did she want us to do, when there was no where open, and we had no more space? I was really feeling let down by our Realtor at the end. Most of what was left was either garbage or things of little matter, and it would have been easy to walk away at that moment and say fine clean it up your self, but we aren't those kind of people. Ultimately we did not clean well, since they had hired people to come in clean, paint and do the carpets. I just gave up. We'd been working 2 days straight, and had only slept for 3 hours in between because we couldn't do anything else. I left a couple big room carpets behind, because we had decided to not go back in, while waiting for them. We left a couple pieces of furniture as well, but I just didn't care anymore.
This was probably the worst move out experience of my life, that's for sure.
Meanwhile this week, we are staying at a friends house not far from where our new house will be about a 10 minute drive. My husband gets to experience a shorter drive for work, and our daughter is with us visiting from London. I know- why didn't she stay for the Olympics? I would most definitely stayed but she was homesick. She and I are spending a lot of time at the Y's, the one I work at and the 2 close to here, going to various classes. I"m hoping to make a connection or two as well so can maybe get on their sub list or enhance teaching program. A little sun time down at the park on the water. Got her bike working yesterday so she should be able to stretch her legs a little too. She's full of lots of go go go, while I'm craving for a day of nothing, but lounging, since the few weeks before we moved were filled with packing, and various other things regarding the move. She missed all the hard moving adventure, arriving 2 days later. But we'll get her back as she will be here when we have to unload all that storage and pods.
Well that's what has been happening the last few weeks. Hope your summer is going well. More to come next week.
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