Boston Dispatch #10 - Creature Comforts

Oh man, do I hurt. The movers showed up around 9:30 this morning and yes they brought the semi. To my amazement, they weren't forced to move and hire a van. A cop did show up but only he only made the truck pull forward a bit to provide access to the fire hydrant across the street. It was as though the entire city of Cambridge just sucked it up and walked it off. Thank you, Cambridge.

It took them about three hours to off-load all of our stuff. As they brought boxes in, they read off the tag numbers of each one and I marked them off on a list. They pretty much just dropped stuff off in the bedroom so after marking the item off the list, I'd run it to the appropriate room. They were rather rough on our stuff. Several items, including the all-important TV, were damaged. I called our 'agent' and she gave me the number to some claims adjuster that'll come out and, well, adjust our claim. I'm not exactly sure what that means.

I couldn't keep awake long enough to finish this post last night. Brooke called me around 1:30 or so to awake me up and have me tote her bags in. I think we spoke about a total of 10 sentences to each other before we both crashed out; comfortably in a bed, I might add. It was the first thing I got assembled after the movers left. After that, I spent the rest of the evening slogging through all the kitchen stuff. What I thought was an amply cabinet'd kitchen became pretty damn tight by the time I got through all the boxes. I crapped out sometime around midnight after getting the stereo, tv and such put together. The couch and some music put me right out until Brooke called.

Today, amazingly, we got nearly the entire place unpacked. It's always a surprise to me how much more you can get done with more when there are two of you. We got just about everything done aside from hang paintings and such. In the process, we realized that we still have a bunch of stuff that we need to purge. I'm voting for more nick-nacks but I might have to give up some CDs...or electronic equipment. grr.

Ok, this is getting boring. We're going to the beach tomorrow with P&M. Perhaps we'll get lost and have a Scooby-Doo quality adventure that'll share tomorrow.

Cheers,
S.