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State of chaos

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: MOVING SUCKS. My office is currently packed full of boxes (pun intended) and there’s a small path leading to my desk in the corner, since I still have to accomplish something besides packing.

This is what it currently looks like:

CHAOS!

I have everything packed (except for the essentials, of course) in my office, bathroom and living room. All that’s left are the kitchen (argh! breakables!) and the bedroom. And to hunt down all of the cat toys and place them in a box or something, but that won’t happen until after the movers are done. I have two more weeks to pack, so it’ll probably be a month from now that my brain (and office) are functional again.

And of course the cats are having a field day climbing everything.

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The good, the bad and the freakin’ hilarious

While moving sucks in so many ways (the packing, the schlepping, the arranging, the re-arranging, the unpacking…) there are several random things to categorize about my home. And here they are:

The Good

My office/library/craft room/Josh’s model room – it’s nice having a space to work in, especially one where I can close the door and keep my cats out. Once I’m finished unpacking everything, I can get the remainder of my books out of storage and will actually have a place to put them. I’ve missed my books these past few years! Plus, now Josh has a space to work on his models, and I can start scrapbooking again. Hooray!

The cat room. It’s actually a screened-in porch, but it serves as a home for the litter boxes, food and water dishes, cat tree, cat carriers, ten thousand cat toys and, some of the time, the cats themselves. They still prefer the couch, but at least their stuff has its own space.

The Bad

No dishwasher. I have to go back to washing the dishes by hand.  :-(

I think we have a ghost. The thermostat keeps re-setting itself (62 when it’s cold and 82 when it’s hot) and Josh swears he felt something grab his foot while he was sleeping the other night.

The Freakin’ Hilarious

Josh’s feeble attempt at Origami last week when he was bored. I unearthed an Origami kit that I bought a while back and handed it to him for entertainment. His attempt at making a paper crane and a… I’m not sure what… were laughable.

Yesterday Osiris managed to get on top my large bookcase and carefully walk across the molding on top of the door to balance on the door itself. I walked into the office and was greeted with this:

Gargoyle Cat!

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New apartment (part one)

The bathroom. Isn't that window pretty? The wallpaper is already gone and the walls will be painted a dusty pink, not that weird shade of green.

My office (yes, you read that right!) and library/craft room.
The awesome built-in cabinet and drawers at the top of the stairs.
 
 
 
I’m in the process of moving, which sucks. As much as I love my new apartment, it’s still a pain to pack and haul boxes to the new place.

What makes it even less fun is that my husband and I are also fixing up and cleaning the apartment ourselves.

Here are some “before” pictures. The “after” ones will be added gradually as things get done.

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