Moving Day

Today was our Houston moving day. I must say overall things went very well even though at 9:30 last night we didn't know if we would be moving at all. See nothing is easy in 2010. My motto for the year "It is what it is". Some days are easier to be zen about everything than others.

Anyway, on Saturday we came to the new place to do a walk through with our Realtor and the Landlord's Realtor. In the lease we had specified for the condo to be cleaned and some repainting/touch-up painting on one of the doors. Well, much to our chagrin none of it had happened. Well every door but the one that needed the paint had been painted, kind of. When our Realtor pointed it out to the LL's realtor things got out of control. There was an all out cat fight. While the LL's realtor was on the phone with the LL.

The LL's realtor threatened that we weren't starting out on the right foot and maybe we should just walk away and they would give us our money back. WHAT??? Walk away we have movers coming and a truck rented are you kidding! At this point I demanded a contact number for our landlord, which she reluctantly gave. We then gave her a list of things we would like looked at before we moved in, which she was going to give to her client.

After we left I called our Landlord who was very lovely. She wouldn't guarantee everything on our list would get completed but she would do the best she could. She promised she would call me on Sunday between 5:00 and 7:00 to let us know where things were at.

At 7:00 I called her.

At that time my one deal breaker is that there are no screens on the windows in the Master Bedroom. For the safety of Baby Chang, who is smart enough to open windows, I couldn't fathom moving into the place without screens. She had to talk to her fiance about whether or not they would replace them and she promised to call later that evening.

There was no phone call.

It was too late then to cancel the truck and the movers, so we moved. I spoke with her fiance and they are pricing the screens. Sadly it looks like we may be replacing at least some of them ourselves.

Anyway the movers arrived on time. They were amazing. It was over 100 degrees here today and they worked their tails off. The total move out of one apartment into the other took 4 and 1/2 hours. Three guys plus a little help from Prairie Dad and I. Not bad. The one negative, I broke Baby Chang's bed while taking it apart for the move.

Now if only the unpacking fairies would arrive to show us where to put everything.

Baby Chang spent the day with our favorite British family. She loves hanging out there especially with the Quiet Poet. It will be tough not having them a staircase away. However, we plan to have many pool dates both at the Y and our pool! Yep the new place has a pool and a fireplace and a jetted tub and two covered parking spots and two bathrooms and two bedrooms and a HUGE KITCHEN!

This move hasn't taken nearly the toll on me physically as the Minneapolis move did. The dizziness was kept at bay most of the day. I'm tired tonight but nothing that I wouldn't be feeling if I was 100% and did what we did today. Definitely a move in the right direction.