even more accomplished

Christmas was nice... not too crazy but nice. Traffic getting to my parents house was nice, only about 45 minutes. Yesterday I did nothing... not even a shower. I was in pj's on the sofa all day and took a nap too. Needed that.

Today mom and dad drove down. I already had my car filled up, and when they called to say they were close, I started taking more boxes outside so they could throw them in their car. Then we all drove down to the new place. We cleaned for hours! Dad took the fridge apart, pulled out all the shelves and everything and scrubbed the inside of it. I washed all the shelves and drawers before he put it all back together. I cleaned the top of the stove (still need to do the self cleaning oven) Mom cleaned the entire bathroom and lined all the shelves for me in the closet. I unpacked most of the bathroom stuff. SO one room is almost done!

After we left, I went home for a while then went to Walmart ($108 later!) and went back to the new place with more boxes in my car. I was a little disappointed to find out that the dishwasher is STILL not hooked up. I have close to a dozen boxes in the kitchen that I need to unpack with dishes and glasses. Last weekend, mom packed them all up on newspaper, so I need to wash everything before I put it away. But with no dishwasher yet, I can't unpack it! Frustrating. But at least the bathroom is almost done.

Christmas Eve I asked 2 of my uncles if they could help me move next weekend. They will, I just have to call them to set it up. My cousin Jenn said she's help too. Her boyfriend has a pick up truck and she has a Ford Escape. I have to drive up to her house (about 45 miles), I'll leave my car there, and I'll take her car and she'll drive her boyfriend's truck. One of my uncle's has a pickup and the other has a Volvo wagon. So with all of those, plus my parents car, I think we can do everything in 2 trips. I'm going to have them do some of the boxes, if we have room, but I'm more concerned with the big stuff. This time next weekend, I'll be in my new place!!

I need to call a bunch of places. I need to change my address with the post office, and my insurance company and banks. I am waiting until New Years day to change it with the registry.. I don't want to pay excise tax in 2 towns. I have to call the electric company to take this place out of my name as of 1/31 and put the new place in my name starting 1/1. And I need to call Comcast. I brought my laptop over today to see if I could pickup the internet there. I can't. I have cable already (brought over a tv today), but no internet. SO I am going to have to call comcast to use my computer... no way I can't. That kind of sucks.

I'm going to see if someone can come next Wednesday after I have my doctor's appointment. I should be home by 3, so if they can come after that, it would work! Just SO much to do!! I'm trying to stay on track with everything, but it is overwhelming. I have so much more packing to do.

I'm glad that I have new years day off... I'll do SO much packing and organizing that day. I want to put most of my furniture between 2 rooms so it is easier to move it all out. But I still have so much that needs to be packed up between now and then. Hopefully each night this week I can make some progress.

Sadly, I have been fighting a cold for the past week. I can feel it in my sinuses and in my chest. I have that dry cough right now. Not fun! I'm just too run down with the holidays and with this whole moving thing.