Yesterday, Sir Dubbins and Prince Henry moved in together. Instead of moving one into the other's cage, purpleglitter and I decided to move them into a new cage together so that neither would be territorial. They both have been in their old cages for a while and neither were particularly thrilled about moving, but neither freaked out and the both seem to be adjusting well to the new arrangement.
Outside their cages lately, Sir Dubbins has been staring longingly at Prince Henry while Prince Henry stares longingly at Prince Henry in the mirror. They spend so much of their time together when they're outside their cages, why not let them be together inside too?
The house_of_clocks is now empty, with the exception of the stuff dalious is not throwing out. I'm going to go back some time in the near future to scrub down the floors and clean the surfaces and then I will be done with it. This long goodbye was emotional at first, but at this point it feels less like my home and more like a burden I want to be rid of.
Apparently today was not the last time I'll be at the house_of_clocks. I have to return once more Monday morning for the guys to move the stuff to the curb and I'll try to finish the cleaning. George told us that we couldn't put everything out on the curb until trash day. I don't want to deal with another morning like this, but I will and perhaps this long goodbye will be over.
“Things are going well at the new place. Then unpacking is going well. the cats adjusted well. The birds have adjusted well. Lake and I have adjusted well. We getting internet access tomorrow which is very good, I've felt very cut off from the world. It's amazing how addicted I am to being in touch with everything. That's about that's about it.”
“Hello. I just spent my first night at the new place. I made several post yesterday about the move being completed, but apparently the LiveJournal Voice Post system ate them all.
It didn't feel like home until we get Mazzy & Paddington here. The cats made it home
I've got a lot to do today especially since I didn't get a lot done after the move because the mover were 5 hours late. So, another busy day. Soon I just to not have a busy day.
“The Movers finished moving everything out of my apartment and now they're at Lake's where they are moving everything out of Lake's apartment, at least everything that will be going. It seems to be going smoothly at this point, obviously a bit later then what I would have liked, but what are you gonna do?”
“Hi, they finally arrived. It's the same crew that move Anthea and we're back to the 3 guys, so the original rate. there are nice guys and they did a really good job moving Anthea.
So, hopefully, now that everything's been sorted out and they're here, everything will go well with the rest of the move and of course I'm going to knock on some wood for that. There, I just did it. I don't know if you can hear the knocking on the wood, but I did. Here, just so you can hear it. There, see? Probably heard it that time, eh?
“Now, so shortly after my last call, I talked to the Bell Rock Moving people and they said they are sending out a different truck and it would have been there in twenty minutes which would have, what, been almost an hour ago. And, uh, they are sending 4 guys so it will cost more money per hour for some reason, because they're late I guess?
But, we can't go with someone else at this point. I don't know what's up with these people. Um, but now I just talked to them and they said, "Oh, it's going to be twenty minutes". So, I mean, I could have done something with this time, but no, I sit around here waiting for these idiots.
I'm just getting very frustrated, it's one thing after another, they keep fucking up, and they're going charge me more for their fuck-ups and it's going to rain. If it thunderstorms they're going to sitting around here with their thumbs up their asses charging me per hour for it and they could have done it during the nice weather we had all morning.
Oh my gosh, I am very very angry at this point. Hopefully they'll arrive soon.
I wish I could just go with someone else. I really do. But at this point, you know, you have to hire movers in advance. You can't switch this day. I have to be gone today. I can't get anyone else. There's not time. I'll wait for these idiots.”
“I just talked to the movers and they're going to be even later. They're planning on getting here at 2:00 now, so I'm going to go find something to do for lunch.”
“Watching a rumble of house sparrow hens in the front of the house of clock. 5 of them having a big brawl.
The movers I just talked to, they're going to be here around 12:15. So, I was hoping to start cleaning up house of clocks at that point and be done with the move. But you know, Murphy's Law and all.
“Well, I just talked to the movers. They locked the keys in the moving truck and they're waiting for a locksmith and they probably won't be arriving un till around 11. I wish I know that earlier, I wouldn't have worked my self so hard, I would of had plenty of time to get ready this morning, but I guess I can wait.
I don't want to do this stuff at the house until they get here because I don't want to, okay, I just thought of the energy yet. I was going to come up with a really good excuse not to do yet, but I didn't really have one. So, good, I will still do it after work, they leave.
See, I'm still not fully awake, I didn't get much sleep last night, at all, umm... but... anyway... soon, soon, soon.”
“The movers should be here momentarily, and I'm done. Well not done, I've still got stuff to do after they move the stuff out, but I'm ready for them. I didn't know if I'd make it. I thought I would, but I wasn't sure. But, I did it.
“Finished with the livingroom, so that's 3 down 1 to go -- the biggest one to go, the bedroom. Probably take me another hour, so I'm going to be up very late and then getting up very early and then putting in another full day dealing with this.
So... I'm going to be very beat tomorrow and I'm going to sleep for a very very very long time
“I finished the playroom. So that's 2 down, 2 to go.
Feeling a bit of a zombie now. I've still got quite a bit. The bedroom of course is going to be the biggest project. Still got the livingroom too.
I damaged the clock Dave made. The glitter clock. It hasn't been hanging for a while. I damaged the glitter. It was a neat clock. I think it's fixable. I'm probably going to give most of the clocks away, if not all.
“When I started this packing project there were 4 rooms witch had things that I needed to take. Those 4 rooms where the kitchen, the livingroom, the playroom, and my bedroom. I've packed everything that I needed to take out of the kitchen at this point. I just did that. The other rooms I've done quite a bit of work on but they still need to be packed. 1 down 3 to go.
The place is a mess and I'm going to come back and clean later in the day tomorrow. My 1st priority is to get everything that I'm taking to the new place then clean up the old place. I'm not going to leave this place a mess.
Hopefully I'll have another progress report later.
“I'm sitting on the front porch of the house of clocks. I disconnected my computer early this afternoon & I don't know when the next time I'm going to have internet access is. Still got quite a lot to do today, tonight. Got to finish up the packing. Movers are coming first thing in the morning. Ugh, I'm SO stressed out. Guess that's about it.”
Tomorrow is crunch day. I will be very busy. Much still to do. I'm going to prioritize finishing up on packing, as the movers are coming 8:00 AM Thursday morning. I can finish up cleaning and throwing things out later in the day on Thursday if need be.