Step 1 - Moving: Complete

I just got to spend a long weekend moving into a new apartment!  This is the first major step of Operation: Back to School, so i'm kinda stoked and kinda uneasy at the same time.

The move itself was pretty long and took most of Saturday, but luckily we have a lot of great friends so it went pretty smoothly!  The major hickup was that the night before we moved, U-Haul called us to say that our reservation didn't work out right, and that we wouldn't have a truck until 3pm (instead of 10am!)!  Looked online, and apparently this is a thing that U-Haul does often to many people!  Just cancelling reservations at the last second, even for people that were planning to move out of state.  Definitely Not a company we gonna be doin' any business with again.

Overall, everything worked out  for everyone, though. Our friends were actually pretty happy to get to sleep in, and it all worked out in the end.  We had So much stuff that it was actually quite the job!  SO many boxes; our new place has just been filled with them and we have little paths we've carved out so we can get around from room to room.  Moving made me very aware of the weight of our attachments to material things.  Wouldn't it be nice to just throw it all away? Er..give it all away would be better, actually.  But yeah, then we'd just end up buying more. Interesting, that. 

Our cats freaked out a bit from the whole thing, it was kinda sad since they had No clue what was going on!  The stray cat we had taken in a year ago or so was pretty stressed about the whole deal. We were wondering if people had gotten rid of her during a move or something. She just sorta found a place to hide and stayed there for the first day.  Our 10-month old kitten was very adventurous though, and took to explorin' off the bat. She's ballsy like that.

Our friends were a great help, we were all really beat afterwards.  We were pretty glad to know so many decent people that would take their saturday to sweat and work in the sun for somebody else.  Like these things go, I think we actually had some fun doing it.  Definitely was a good memory-making-moment.

So, now we live way up north, close to Ginger's job, and far away from mine.  That was the deal: if i get to go to school, she gets to live right next to work. So, for the next little-over-a-month, I get to drive an hour and a half in the morning!  I pretend like it sucks, but really...it's a beautiful drive.  I got to spend the morning with plains and rolling hills on my  left, and foothills jutting out of the ground on my right lit up by the cloudy sunrise.  I actually miss having a long drive to work! It's where i get to listen to a lot of good music, or audio books and stuff.  I'm also looking forward to later in the year when i get to start taking the bus to school. The reading i'll get to do!

It's kinda funny, this new apartment isn't as nice as the one we're moving out of.  It's a bunch smaller, the area's not as nice, we lose a bunch of those 'creature comforts' that we had at the last place.  Our old apartment was right near this awesome floodplane field with all these trees, paths, little creeks and stuff to walk around...it was great to get lost in.  Our new place, I get to walk around subdivisions, trailer parks, strip-malls...nothing quite as cool.  To trade to be able to go to school, though? Not a problem!

Unfortunately, I tweaked my back a bit from moving :-/  moving a sofa up stairs.  Was trying to have correct posture and all that, and was trying out this thing from my martial arts class, a way to fold at the hips, but apparently I did it wrong!  It's kinda alright, though, cause I've been trying to be more mindful of my hips, so having something in pain right around them kinda helps.  I've found all sorts of movements that are engaging the strained muscles that I'm not sure should be! So I'm trying to find some other muscles to use instead and maybe that'll help  overall.

So, things are shapin' up pretty well!  The cats are already finding the little spots that will settle in to be their own, and so are we.  Found a neat place for a picnic, already checked out some local food joints and our new Wal-Mart haha. Now, to unpack the rest, and watch our daily routines congeal.

Anyway, I won't have internet at home for a bit, but i'll still be checkin' in on Zaadz during the day.  Here's to change!