First off, I am going to confess that I have not been eating well or healthy during this moving process. OK I feel better now that I told you all! Confession is a great thing!
Well we are Texas -ish official. We arrived here in Dallas yesterday evening. Unloaded both the cars and carried all of our belongings that we packed up 3 flights of stars. After the 3rd trip, we were tired but not like on our death beds, I made the statement thank god this move came after the weightloss! Luis agreed, because we both would have been a lot more winded and testy after the first or second trip up the stairs. I am short, its no secret, so carrying heavy totes (I pack EXTREMELY heavy) up the stairs would have been too challenging for me. My amazing husband carried ALL the totes up the stairs. I unpacked everything and got everything put away to make this our home.
I will back track a bit. My family and close friends know the story. We received a call Monday evening that the movers were only going to be coming on Wednesday instead of both days. I immediately became very frantic, as we had to be our Wednesday because of possible closing on Friday! We were not allowed to pack anything, the moving company had to do it all. Wednesday came and the moving group was awesome, they had very long week and then had to come and pack and load our home in one day. Those 3 men worked hard and were extremely friendly, courteous, and happy for the entire day. They didn't even want to take a lunch break, so my friend Angie took me out to get lunch for them and us. They had the entire house packed and ready for me to clean around 6PM. Angie and Jeremeh helped us clean up the house. Men did the garage and Angie and I cleaned the inside of the house.
Then the dreaded part came. Saying goodbye to everyone in our neighborhood. I'm even tearing up as I type this. We really did have the best neighbors. They were more than just neighbors - that seems like a word that describes people you only casually talk to. Our neighbors were our family and best friends. We all had each others backs if anything was out of the ordinary. Saying goodbye to them was difficult, BUT there is a good ending here - they all have some kind of tie to Dallas so they will be there at some point to visit.
Since we had the day set back and the movers finished late, we stayed in a hotel that night in lafayette. I thought the cats would not like it and be hiding and what not. They loved it. There was not one inch of that hotel room not smelled and investigated. In the AM we gave Rico 1/4 pill of kitty xanax to take the edge off for the drive. Mango rode just fine in her carrier open in the floor board of the jetta with only a few comments along the way. She was very relaxed without any kitty sedation. Once we arrived to the apartment here in Farmers Branch (Dallas) I cleaned and Luis carried totes like described above. I tried to set the apartment up as much as I could to help "welcome" the cats. They made themselves at home very quickly.
The weather turned on us as quickly as the cats got comfortable. When we arrived it was a clear and breezy day. After unpacking and getting a shopping list together, the sky changed drastically. Then I seen a tornado warning on the TV. I was quickly reminded that we are back in "midwest" tempered weather that can change in the blink of an eye. So Luis and I had a quick recap about the clouds and what a funnel cloud was and the skys colors and to watch the movement of the trees. The extremely bad weather was north of us luckily but there was confirmed tornadoes!
Today I am going to continue to turn this more into our place then the place we are borrowing. Plus I have nothing to do so I am super bored anyhow!
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