Best Night of Sleep in Months
Well, the house is absolutely trashed, there is crap ever where. If you have seen my family after Christmas this doesn't even compare. There are boxes opened, half opened and empty scattered here and there, there are packing materials drifting across the floor like snow, and there are household good scattered more randomly than even Typhoon could accomplish.
Thus the unpacking process has begun. Step one is always get all the stuff out of the boxes because who knows what you might find in a box marked "Pillows / Remote" there could be anything in there. The military movers focus on just getting crap in boxes not the ease of unpacking or sorting when you get to your next destination.
But unpacking boxes before you have found a space for the things you unpacked from the last box, well it leads to a whole lot of stuff just being everywhere. It takes the dog 5 minutes to navigate her way through the sea of stuff on the floor to get to the door. It takes a good 15 minutes to find a place to sit down and eat dinner, or find a plate with which to eat dinner.
But there are some good things, Alex now has a carpeted area to lay on, sleep on and use for a general non slip floor area. She was almost as excited to be reunited with the carpet as she was with her toys which she proceeded to carry everywhere once they came out of the box. Hard wood floors are just not a dogs best friend, especially when they are as clumsy as Alex.
I got the best night of sleep I have had in months now that we have our own bed back. Needless to say what the Military gives you to sleep on, is not exactly the best of the best. Its not even the best of the mediocre, but its clean and its softer than the floor, but its no joy to sleep in.
But now its time to try to find a place for all this stuff, in closets that are never where you want them, or cabinetry you can't reach. Slowly the house is becoming more ordered, more like a normal house and less like a bunch of empty rooms.
Thus the unpacking process has begun. Step one is always get all the stuff out of the boxes because who knows what you might find in a box marked "Pillows / Remote" there could be anything in there. The military movers focus on just getting crap in boxes not the ease of unpacking or sorting when you get to your next destination.
But unpacking boxes before you have found a space for the things you unpacked from the last box, well it leads to a whole lot of stuff just being everywhere. It takes the dog 5 minutes to navigate her way through the sea of stuff on the floor to get to the door. It takes a good 15 minutes to find a place to sit down and eat dinner, or find a plate with which to eat dinner.
But there are some good things, Alex now has a carpeted area to lay on, sleep on and use for a general non slip floor area. She was almost as excited to be reunited with the carpet as she was with her toys which she proceeded to carry everywhere once they came out of the box. Hard wood floors are just not a dogs best friend, especially when they are as clumsy as Alex.
I got the best night of sleep I have had in months now that we have our own bed back. Needless to say what the Military gives you to sleep on, is not exactly the best of the best. Its not even the best of the mediocre, but its clean and its softer than the floor, but its no joy to sleep in.
But now its time to try to find a place for all this stuff, in closets that are never where you want them, or cabinetry you can't reach. Slowly the house is becoming more ordered, more like a normal house and less like a bunch of empty rooms.
posted by Crystal at 7:44 AM
1 Comments:
I am going to get you and Alex the life alert system for the unpacking process.
"Help! Help! I've tripped over my ironing board and my head got stuck in the fish bowl. When Alex tried to come to my rescue she slid across the wood floor, tripped over the fishing pole, bounced off the tennis racket, and is now hanging from the ceiling fan. Help!"
Ha ha ha. Life Alerts are on the way ;-)
-Mel
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