I'm supposed to be chronicling all my adventures on this here blog. I'm not doing such a great job considering how long it's been since I last posted. But nothing too crazy has happened.
We moved last weekend, which was a bit of an adventure. At first, I wasn't even going to be helping. Zack had 2 weeks off between when classes ended & his internship began, so he was going to spend the first week working for Kevin & packing up. Then his buddies were going to help him move stuff on the weekend.
That didn't work so well. We had tire problems with the bug, so he didn't make it back to Des Moines til Monday (Sept 24) afternoon & thus worked long days Wed, Thurs, & Fri, which didn't leave him much time for packing. Then one of his buddies went on vacation unexpectedly, & the other was remodeling his kitchen- he helped Zack load up the big stuff, but Zack helped him install cabinets.
I went to Des Moines on Fri afternoon, arriving just in time to help (mostly watch) the cabinet installation. In total guy fashion, or maybe just someone who hasn't moved before, Zack underestimated how long it would take to get everything packed up & moved. He thought he'd be done & back to Lincoln Sat night (and that wasn't including my help).
We spent all day Sat boxing stuff up & took one trailer load to the warehouse. Kevin let us borrow a trailer, we borrowed Nathan's truck, & Kevin also said we could store our stuff in his co's warehouse. The fun thing about the warehouse is we were putting it on shelves & had to use a forklift to get the stuff up to the shelves. It was quite interesting to learn how to use a forklift- those things are not intuitive at all- they're a pain in the *ss to maneuver! Sunday was another long day of moving stuff- we finally got everything to the warehouse, the car & truck loaded with stuff for Lincoln, the house cleaned & were headed to lincoln at about 7:30pm. The one good thing about the weekend is that we got along pretty darn good & didn't fight, even though we were both tired and stressed (it might have helped that I was lifting Zack up & down to the shelves with the forklift- and you don't want to piss off the person operating the forklift you're on ;) ).
It's been so nice to have Zack home this week. It's so nice just to be able to wake up next to him in the mornings; sounds cheesy, but it's true; it's the little things I missed the most.
