We are officially moved in!

Tuesday was one of those days that you only live once. Why? Because once you move yourself in four flights of stairs, you never do it again and realize why you would pay movers to do it for you. My legs are still shaking at the thought of it...

We hired two people to come help us move, knowing that only having two hours was going to push our limits. One guy showed up (Brian) and informed us that he was the only one that would be showing up. So we had one mover. The pods were supposed to arrive between 11:00 am-12:00 pm, so we asked that Brian arrive around 11:15 or 11:30. He got there at 11:15 and by noon we were still wondering where our pods were. Harold called and they informed him that after a whole week of waiting for them, we'd have to wait another hour. Awesome. So we told Brian to go for a walk or something (he was hanging out in front of our building drinking coffee) and we'd hopefully have the pods by the time he got back.

1:00 rolls around and we still don't see a blue and yellow truck coming down the street. Harold called again and got no answer. Around 1:20 the truck comes rolling down our street with a happy-go-lucky driver. Harold and I couldn't figure out why he rubbed us the wrong way, but I think it stems from being over two hours behind schedule and not apologizing or acting as if anything was wrong.

He finally drops the pods in our alley and says, "You have two hours starting from when I parked the truck out there on the street." So Brian, Harold and I got to work. We opened one pod and attacked the contents (it was mainly furniture stuffed with boxes). Brian was incredible. He literally put two of our heaviest boxes on his back and carried them BOTH up four flights of stairs. He was so nice and considerate, he didn't even ask for water when he needed it. It put my manners to the test trying to remember that every time I needed water, so did he, but he wouldn't ask for it.

Four or five loads into the move I started questioning our ability to get these things unloaded in the amount of time we had. I looked at Harold and said, "It's the stairs! Without these, it wouldn't be hard!" Well, with about 10 minutes to spare, we got the pods unloaded and into our house. As I said, Brian was amazing! He looked at us after we were done and said, "I hope you people are not planning on moving for a long time..." We made sure to give him a really big tip :-)

Yesterday was my first full day of work at the Lincoln Park REI store! It was a lot of fun to be back on the floor talking with customers and really seeing some of the headquarters decisions being put into place. It was a long day (left the house at 8:45 and got home around 7) but I loved it! My feet aren't so sure if it was a good idea though...