Moving In

I'm officially moved in! I've spent three nights at my house now and am surprised I haven't been scared yet. I'm always scared in a new place, and this time I was expecting it to be worse because I'm on the ground floor. I haven't lived on the ground floor of anything for 10 years.

Sunday, Team Awesome moved me in to my house: Sara, Stephen, Alex and Jason on the loading crew plus Matt, Ryan and Holly joining us for unloading and Krista and my 5 year old boyfriend Holden came after to bring me dinner and make my bed.

If it weren't for Sara with her amazing puzzle skills and years of Tetris practice, there's no way I would have figured out how to get all my stuff to fit in the too-small 14 foot UHaul I rented (plus overflow in a minivan and 3 cars - and yes, this was a move for a single person).

Sara and Alex and my stuffed UHaul.

I've been learning something almost every day during this whole becoming a homeowner process. What I've learned during this move:

1. It's rad to have a bunch of people helping you. But when you're moving to a big place from a small place, you have to spend a lot of time telling people where everything goes because there's no longer just bedroom, kitchen, and living room. There's office, spare bedroom, garage, kitchen, dining, living, and breakfast nook.
2. You have to hunt for all your stuff once everyone's done helping because you didn't move all the boxes yourself. I have no idea where half my stuff is right now =)

I haven't actually unpacked anything yet. Sunday night it was almost 9 before I was alone at my house, then I had to go back to my apartment to shower because I still need to replace the broken handle on my shower faucet. Then I came home, watched an episode of Daisy of Love on my tv then passed out. Then Monday and Tuesday I was at my place from 8-midnight cleaning both nights. But I'm done cleaning!!! I'm so excited to start settling in finally.