We're moving in a week. Have we packed? Hahahahahaha. No. Did we fail the town inspection for failing to have working batteries in our fire detectors? hahahahaha. Yes. Did the mason just give us a quote of $650 to fix the hole in the chimney? hahahahahaha. Yes. Am I going to do two closings, two walkthroughs, and a move in one day next week? hahahahahah. Yes. Do we know where we are going to stay when the floors are being refinished? Hahahahaha. No.
Are the wheels starting come off the bus around here? hahahahaha. yes.
Also, I haven't successfully registered the kids for school, which starts in two weeks. Or figured out what I am going to do with the old refridgerator in the basement. Or decided what I'm going to feed my in-laws when they show up the day we move into the house.
Apt. 11d 
I am so tempted to make the pregnancy scare joke. But I won’t.
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NOT FUNNY
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“Or decided what I’m going to feed my in-laws when they show up the day we move into the house.”
Granola bars and pizza?
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And beer.
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Grocery stores often have nice-looking cut-fruit and sliced veggie trays.
Don’t forget to install toilet paper first thing. And soap if you’re feeling classy.
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That fine NY tradition, takeout.
Our first day at casa de chaos the hudson ended with the two of us taking one look around at about 10 pm and checking the family into a hotel in White Plains for the night.
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I was going to suggest pizza, too. But now, I think that the in-laws should bring food for everyone and you shouldn’t have to feed them at all.
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“Our first day at casa de chaos the hudson ended with the two of us taking one look around at about 10 pm and checking the family into a hotel in White Plains for the night.”
Only in the past year did it finally dawn on me that it would be much more enjoyable to spend a couple days during moving at a hotel.
If all goes well, our next house will be about five blocks away from our current house, so there’s a decent chance of being able to move the kitchen stuff over there without muss or fuss or dozens of mysterious sealed, poorly labeled boxes. I’m also looking forward to discarding about half my kids’ treasures during the move.
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Darn, others beat me to pizza.
K-rations?
Or the modern equivalent, lunchables.
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If you don’t want to do pizza, Costco sells marvelous large containers of frozen things that can be reheated and eaten. Deputize an in-law to buy some.
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Go out to eat! I’m sorry about failing the city’s inspection, but we failed too. They failed us for having just taken the trash out of the can to take it out when they knocked at the door (they said it was blocking the back door exit) and they asked us to put up new wooden slats in the back and front stairs wooden railings. 😦 I’ll be thinking of you this week and hoping everything works out just fine. Particularly the school registration. Sigh.
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Whenever I move (and I moved 5 times in 7 years during one particularly transient period), my priorities were 1. internet service, 2. toilet paper, 3. curtains.
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What happened to your pioneer spirit? Our pioneer forefathers (and foremothers) useta tape up newspapers!
Actually, newspapers have some value for priority #2, too.
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A few more thoughts:
1. set up microwave immediately
2. procure basic frozen stuff
3. paper plates/plastic cups/plastic utensils (you get one week to use these–after that, you’re risking your eternal soul)
4. paper towels
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Dave, who reads newspapers any more?
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We get NY Times, WaPo, and WSJ on our doorstep every morning. I think we are the only ones on our block who do, though.
Lots of people here still get WaPo.
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Funny thread. Our priorities are 1. Outdoor grill, 2. hotdogs, 3. Internet service. The first thing that we’re going to do is go off to Home Depot to buy a new grill. We’re going to have a lot of people coming and going during that first weekend that we’re in the house. Everybody is going to need food. Steve’s folks are staying with us for five days. I probably won’t start unpacking until the kids start school and everybody leaves on the 6th.
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Dave, did we ever establish the legalities of going through other people’s recycling bins?
(Btw, one of the books I read this past week when I was without wifi and had to survive with reading only the books on my iPod, was Star Island, by Carl Hiassen. May have put me off celebrity stalking culture forever.)
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“Our priorities are 1. Outdoor grill, 2. hotdogs, 3. Internet service.”
That’s very good. We’re not grill people, but I’ve thinking lately that having an outdoor grill would be a good move for disaster preparedness. Also, if you can stomach the stuff, the grocery stores do sell big tubs of coleslaw and potato salad, which goes well with hot dogs.
When my parents moved us three kids into a half-finished house when I was about 9, our first couple breakfasts were served from the tailgate of a pick-up truck. We had hot chocolate and instant oatmeal at dawn prepared with hot water heated on a tiny gas camp stove. Ah, memories.
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You might get some relief by renting a u-store room for a month, get some stuff out of your current house today and bring it back to the new house in couple of weeks.
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