Moving Madness
Oct. 10th, 2007 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prosodicLance appointed me the task today of going through the house and making a list of things that we don't want the movers to take. They are going to come twice. First, they come and take most of our stuff. Then they come later, close to our actual moving date, and take the basic household necessities that we didn't have them take the first time...mostly kitchen stuff, I am figuring out. Obviously we need plates to eat on, silverware, glasses, cookware, etc. And we need a vacuum cleaner.
We get a 500 pound allowance for this stuff, and can also afford to keep some small luxuries, like a stereo or something. No TV though. And Lance is thinking about keeping my computer, although he'll have his laptop, so I think that should serve us both well on a temporary basis.
We have 1 room on each floor dedicated to keeping these things...anything that needs to be moved out of these rooms will be placed in another room for the movers to take. Everything staying behind will be placed in these rooms, the doors closed, and the rooms absolutely off limits to the movers.
I actually think this list will be easier to compile once we get rid of some of our stuff. But I have a good start on it already.
I keep reminding Lance that this is my first PCS. He thinks I've been through this before, since I was down in Georgia with him when the movers came to take his stuff to ship here. But I was only there for that part of the moving process (and we weren't even married yet...just engaged). I wasn't there for all the paperwork and the planning and the list-making and all that other stuff. And I was here on the flipside of the move when the movers came with his stuff.
But this is my first PCS officially. And yeah, we have checklists and stuff like that, but it's mostly for paperwork and things. Things that Lance has to do. Although all this list-making is one of the things on the checklist, so I suppose I'm getting that done.
(That, and the sending out resumes/job search part, because that's also on the checklist.)
Still soooooo much to do. GAH!
One thing I just thought of: my resumes and cover letters should be saved to my flash drive. Right now, that stuff is on my hard drive.
Laundry is in progress at the moment. I guess I need to do some cleaning. The house is looking really dusty again, but then again, it's pretty much always dusty...even right after I dust. I need to write that cover letter for the job I applied for yesterday. And I think that completes today's agenda.
We get a 500 pound allowance for this stuff, and can also afford to keep some small luxuries, like a stereo or something. No TV though. And Lance is thinking about keeping my computer, although he'll have his laptop, so I think that should serve us both well on a temporary basis.
We have 1 room on each floor dedicated to keeping these things...anything that needs to be moved out of these rooms will be placed in another room for the movers to take. Everything staying behind will be placed in these rooms, the doors closed, and the rooms absolutely off limits to the movers.
I actually think this list will be easier to compile once we get rid of some of our stuff. But I have a good start on it already.
I keep reminding Lance that this is my first PCS. He thinks I've been through this before, since I was down in Georgia with him when the movers came to take his stuff to ship here. But I was only there for that part of the moving process (and we weren't even married yet...just engaged). I wasn't there for all the paperwork and the planning and the list-making and all that other stuff. And I was here on the flipside of the move when the movers came with his stuff.
But this is my first PCS officially. And yeah, we have checklists and stuff like that, but it's mostly for paperwork and things. Things that Lance has to do. Although all this list-making is one of the things on the checklist, so I suppose I'm getting that done.
(That, and the sending out resumes/job search part, because that's also on the checklist.)
Still soooooo much to do. GAH!
One thing I just thought of: my resumes and cover letters should be saved to my flash drive. Right now, that stuff is on my hard drive.
Laundry is in progress at the moment. I guess I need to do some cleaning. The house is looking really dusty again, but then again, it's pretty much always dusty...even right after I dust. I need to write that cover letter for the job I applied for yesterday. And I think that completes today's agenda.
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Date: 2007-10-11 05:17 am (UTC)I'm interested in finding out how your move goes because I might schedule outbound transportation like that next time -- UB after and not before HHG. I've never thought about doing it that way before!
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Date: 2007-10-11 05:26 am (UTC)We still don't have a date for when the movers are coming, but we think it will be after we get back from Seattle. We really don't want it that way, but the orders came so late that there are a lot of things we have no control over.