Mooooving Right Along

Well, our move is going slower than planned, but it's going.

I reserved a uhaul truck June 21st for the 4th of July weekend since hubby was going to be home for the move. He was coming home on the 1st and we were supposed to pick up the uhaul on the 2nd. The first came around and uhaul had not called me to confirm my reservation, so I called them. What do they tell me? That there are NO trucks. No trucks? Are you kidding me? I have been seeing trucks running around town for the past two weeks. Don't tell me there are no trucks. We have moved a LOT in the past, and we've used uhaul a LOT, and usually, if there are no trucks, they shuttle a truck up from a nearby area. NOPE. They told me that there are no trucks and they will put me on a wait list. Hello?? What the heck is a reservation for then?? SHEESH! So after that bit of a setback, we went to plan B and decided NEVER to use uhaul again. We'll go to their competitor in the future. Ryder, Penske, or Budget. Screw uhaul.

Well, we spent the entire weekend loading up furniture in our old pick up truck. It's a 68 Jeep Truck Flat Bed, has break issues, light issues, and now a power steering leak. Great. It's a really good thing that I was able to take lots of the smaller things over to the new house over the prior weeks with my car. What really helped a lot was when my most wonderful neighbors let me borrow their truck and even had a friend bring hers over to help one day. They are the GREATEST people ever!

By the 3rd, we had emptied the house of the furniture (there wasn't a whole lot), and started working on the garage. Hubby has so much in there and I hadn't packed anything in there. I've been too busy working on the house. Our old landlord kept calling us while we're moving stuff over, even though Hubby told him to leave us alone so we could get our stuff done. The old landlord has someone else packing and moving stuff for him - we don't have that luxury. We need every minute we can get to do this and don't have time to waste on idle chit chat.

The 4th was spent the same. Packing, moving, and cleaning. My mother flew up from Austin to help (and visit) and we spent the day cleaning the house while Hubby worked on the garage.

By the time it was dark we were all too exhausted to go anywhere to see fireworks or anything, but a few people around the area shot some up into the sky and we were able to catch a few sparkles.

The 6th was spent hauling things from the garage to the new house and Mom and I dug up some of my plants to put in my new garden. I was so mad when our old landlord told us we had to move - I had just planted my garden and hubby just built my greenhouse. The plants were finally taking off. *sigh*

While hubby was trying to get our lawn mower on the truck, our old landlord calls again to ask annoying questions about the utilities - like we were going to set them up for him! As if! I think he is too lazy to do it himself. He asked Hubby if he could buy his truck for next to nothing. Hubby laughed and said, first, it's not his truck, it's mine, and I was not going to sell it - especially to him. Second, it's a collectors and I'm certainly not going to sell it for cheap. He wanted to buy our truck so he wouldn't have to "mess up" his new truck. Sheesh! Then he assumed that he would be hauling water from our neighbors. Hubby told him that HE would have to talk to the neighbors about that and work something out with them. I'm rolling my eyes here because our neighbors are wonderful people, but I don't think that they would appreciate the landlord just coming over and filling up without asking. Next the landlord asked Hubby if he minded if one of his moving guys could bring a load up to put in the garage. That's why he got mad. Hubby told him NO! We are busy, we're not out yet, and legally, we have until the 20th to move out. Besides, the garage is still full. Hubby expressed to him that we have been busting our butts to accommodate HIS schedule. We have been working our butts off to get out as soon as we can, but we can only do so much. We don't have the luxury of having someone pack and move things like he does. Hubby then told him that if he or anyone of his move guys comes up before we are out, he will call the police. The old landlord got mad and said that he didn't have to jump down his throat. Hubby then told him that he will only say it one more time and that he will not say it again, we will call him when we are out. Stop calling us and bugging us with tons of stupid questions that waste our time. We're trying to work with him and it's been a miracle what we've done so far, but really, we still haven't even seen a written notice that he wants us out. Legally, we're still occupying the place and according to state law, he's in violation of many laws. He has been the whole time, but that's an entirely different story.

Hubby had to ask for another day off to finish this move, and they were not very happy about that. In fact, they were mad. I just hope this doesn't jeopardizes hubby's job. So today we HAVE to be out. Today we HAVE to get hubby's drivers license changed to the new address because he won't be home again for another month. So it's going to be a crazy crazy day.

Overall this move has been hard on us all, we're physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted, but I think in the end it will be a good thing. We won't have to haul water and hopefully we won't have to use as much wood. The new house, well it's not really new, is MUCH nicer than where we were. I guess we'll all be happy when the move is all over.

Then we can unpack.... oh joy.