Thursday, June 08, 2006
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The packers were here until 7pm last night. Normally they're supposed to be done by 5, but truthfully, I don't think anyone was scheduled to come out here yesterday, which is why they were late arriving.
Today, the truck got here around 9 and the two guys were pretty efficient, getting the house done in 4 hours. We still have some cleaning to do -- I followed them around with a vacuum cleaner and as they cleared a room I did one final run through. They may actually get to DC ahead of us which is going to screw up our delivery. I sense I'm not having good karma with this move but I'm not sure why.
Why do I think good karma is missing? Well, there are the little things...like the fact that yesterday the packers apparently didn't use the original boxes that we provided for some appliances, which means they used their own boxes (which they charge for) plus we have no way to transport these boxes with us if we want them for the future, plus we now have to dispose of them, and strangely enough, we don;t have a dumpster in the backyard. We also have 4 sets of extra mattress boxes to get rid of somehow. And in the kitchen I found some pieces of white porcelain on the floor that look suspiciously like the handle of one of our coffee cups. I bet one of the guys yesterday broke it and didn't have the balls to tell me.
But the biggest issue was the wind. And the door. And the wall. About 1 o'clock -- 24 hours before we close, mind you -- a gust of wind slammed the front door into the wall and the doorknob punched a hole in the drywall. Yes, we have a hole in the wall by the front door. Lovely. I have called Adrian because he knows something about patching drywall, and he is getting a patch and some spackling. It's my job to get paint, because the original can (from 3 years ago) isn't usable anymore. Even though we know the name of the paint, I'm hoping the base hasn't changed so much that it looks different.
Bad karma, indeed. In any case, I am still determined that we will go see the movie Brick tonight. Because I want to.
Today, the truck got here around 9 and the two guys were pretty efficient, getting the house done in 4 hours. We still have some cleaning to do -- I followed them around with a vacuum cleaner and as they cleared a room I did one final run through. They may actually get to DC ahead of us which is going to screw up our delivery. I sense I'm not having good karma with this move but I'm not sure why.
Why do I think good karma is missing? Well, there are the little things...like the fact that yesterday the packers apparently didn't use the original boxes that we provided for some appliances, which means they used their own boxes (which they charge for) plus we have no way to transport these boxes with us if we want them for the future, plus we now have to dispose of them, and strangely enough, we don;t have a dumpster in the backyard. We also have 4 sets of extra mattress boxes to get rid of somehow. And in the kitchen I found some pieces of white porcelain on the floor that look suspiciously like the handle of one of our coffee cups. I bet one of the guys yesterday broke it and didn't have the balls to tell me.
But the biggest issue was the wind. And the door. And the wall. About 1 o'clock -- 24 hours before we close, mind you -- a gust of wind slammed the front door into the wall and the doorknob punched a hole in the drywall. Yes, we have a hole in the wall by the front door. Lovely. I have called Adrian because he knows something about patching drywall, and he is getting a patch and some spackling. It's my job to get paint, because the original can (from 3 years ago) isn't usable anymore. Even though we know the name of the paint, I'm hoping the base hasn't changed so much that it looks different.
Bad karma, indeed. In any case, I am still determined that we will go see the movie Brick tonight. Because I want to.
