Saturday Friday Day

Friday. Last work day of the week. Only we move tomorrow. Also, by “tomorrow” I mean we have been moving shit all week and now, Saturday is the Big Move day. Abbreviate that BM. So, what does that make Friday LM? No. It’s the second busiest move day of the week. The oh shit, we still have a lot to do day of the week. Friday is a holiday, Presidents Weekend I think.

Woke early, lots to do. I packed and moved and packed and moved till 3 pm. Then went to work. Got in maybe 2 1/2 hours of work there. Then, since I drove the U-Haul to work, I drove it up to Auburn to unload. Emily and Marika has been unloading the car while I was at the office. Took about 45 minutes in the big beast to get there plus 10 gallons fuel. Joy. Dark when I arrived.

So the truck is a 15’ box truck. I had 91 boxes or various weights and sizes to unload. By myself. Took a vigorous hour and a quarter to get the boxes off and distributed. In the rain and forty degree weather. It was a nice workout. By nice I mean awful. And not fun. And lonely. Though no one there to distract or divert me. Which is why it was fast.

At the end, I locked up. And, best of all, got in the cab of the truck a took a sauna. Again, that means heater on high, fan on high and me not high. I tried to get down the hill to Vacaville in time for dinner with the ladies but even though I exceeded the speed limit and the truck was empty, I missed that by ten minutes. They got me take out Pho.

All home. I ate my dinner. Very nice when it was so cold and I was so tired. I managed to relax. After dinner Marika went back to Petaluma. Then Emily and I continued the odyssey of packing till 1am. Why? Because we love it!! Ok. No we don’t. We are still set on freak out mode. The movers will be here at 6am. So we packed and packed. By one it was just a good as it gets and go to bed. I was kinda tired. Emily’s stress has lowered.

Saturday, 530am. We up. Emiky quick clean and dress. Me too. Back into full pack out mode. Movers early. We moved cars to fit the truck in. The movers started there thing. I put Emily,and two cats, into her car, and she went to Auburn. Where she decided to stay. I on the other hand stayed here. To “help” the movers. By help, I mean I lift nothing and answer all their questions and stay out of their way. Help. They charge more if I get involved.

It’s about 10am. We are actively packing and moving. No excitement. Lost a few things which is not lost. It’s packed. Think the last scene of Indiana Jones. Somewhere I may never find it. I can deal. I took time to read the paper, a reward for hard work. The guys are going non stop. I say 11 to 1130 we are out of here.

An hour later ands it’s difficult to see any progress. There is too much stuff. I am not sure when it will end. And I have nothing to do now but sit in a drafty house with four guys working. Let’s just say, the magic is gone.

So Mike the mover came up with a great idea. I was going to drive the truck up to Auburn once it was full. With the dogs in the cab. Mike said, hey why doesn’t Carl drive your truck? You drive your car with the dogs. Mike is a smart guy. I took off for Auburn with the dogs in my car.

Got there midday. Not much going on. Emily was hard at work unpacking all the boxes I had brought last night. I unpacked my car and then got to work on the boxes. Not long after the movers showed up with the two trucks. Then commenced several hours worth of them saying “where does this go”. But by early evening we had both trucks unloaded and boxes distributed.

Movers left. We made a date for next weekend for them to empty our storage unit and move the contents up here.

So about now, somewhere after six, I owned a bottle of champagne. Emiky and I toasted our good fortune. We were exhausted from the long week moving. The bubbly went straight to our heads. So we had another glass.

About this time we got a call from Kary, our real estate agent. She knew we were moving in. She offered to bring dinner. We enthusiastically concurred with her idea. We love her.

She came about an hour later. Brought us a wind chime as a housewarming gift. Food and presents. Did I mention we love her? We had a grand old time sitting around eating and drinking champagne. It was above the best. Kary left by 840. We were in bed by 845. Asleep immediately.