Finally a Home

Our furniture arrived on Monday! First they said to expect it around 9am, but that we'd hear from the dispatcher for specifics. That was Friday or Saturday, and we never heard. We called on Monday morning, and then they said it'd probably be between 12-1pm, and that they'd call if it would be much later. At 2:30pm we called to find out where they were, and then they showed up.

We had a couple opportunities to get more than our fair share, it's a good thing we're honest people. First they tried to give us 3 bikes for the price of one, and later it was things like bean-bag chairs, bed rails, etc. I don't get it... they were very careful when they left our apartment that each of our 144 items (numbered on yellow tags) had been delivered, so I don't see why they couldn't have run down a similar checklist when they left their storage location. Some of these things even had orange or blue tags on them! So we were a bit worried that some of our stuff would be missing.

In the end, there wasn't much to worry about. There was only one thing missing: one shelf from Maia's bookshelf. It only had 2 adjustable shelves in the first place, so currently it's not of much use. If they don't find it, the whole thing may turn into garage storage. They also broke the back of one of our bedroom dressers... Becca saw the guy do it as he brought it off of the truck, not showing quite enough respect for our stuff. But the dresser still works, we probably won't even remember it's broken until we try to move it again. But we're calling to file an insurance claim on it anyway.

About 20% of the way through the move, they decided that instead of running the ramp down from the truck to the driveway and then carry things up our stairs, that they'd run the ramp UP to our deck. It sounded crazy at first, and the guy in charge (Josh) said a bit too much to us about how "not every mover would do this, I'm just crazy enough to do it," and then explained that they do it all the time. But the driveway is slanted enough that in the end, it wasn't THAT crazy. Check back here later for a picture, which still needs to be uploaded from the camera.

The move that we thought would be over around noon wasn't through until 6pm. We decided to treat ourselves to dinner at the Bear's Tooth Grill... our kitchen was full of boxes, and there was even less of a place to sit than the day before. Afterwards, we managed to get Maia's crib and our bed together, although we were both tired and that made it a bit harder. I stayed home from work on Tuesday, and between the two of us we managed to organize most of the kitchen, connect up our electronics, and set up the living room and dining room furniture. It's still boxes and boxes and boxes, but I couldn't stay home from work ANOTHER day this week. It's livable, but it'll be nice when it's all put away.

In an epilogue that shows just how off-kilter this Josh character was, he showed up Tuesday afternoon and said, "C'mon, I've got your guns." Eventually, I realized he was offering me GUNS. Being an honest man, I said we didn't OWN any guns. He had apparently confused us with his Monday morning move.