Okay, it's been a few weeks and we all thought this series was over, and it is, mostly. But after the packing and the selling and the buying and the moving, moving, moving, comes the unpacking.
The flatpack TV stand we ordered came without hardware but that didn't stop us from setting up the TV immediately, because priorities.
Work was crazy busy and as you may recall from earlier posts, we had a lot of stuff and a whole new house to put the stuff in and it all felt a little overwhelming.
Plus, we made the horrifying discovery that while our stuff was in storage with the moving company, there was some kind of water incident and several boxes of our things were ruined and moldy.
But it's okay, the moving company totally reimbursed us HAHAHAHAHAHAHA JUST KIDDING THEY BASICALLY SAID FUCK YOU AND YOUR IRREPLACEABLE PERSONAL ITEMS, LIKE THE BOOK YOU GAVE KATR ON YOUR FIRST DATE THAT YOU WROTE A CUTE NOTE IN, IT'S ALL LOST IN TIME LIKE TEARS IN RAIN
I LOVED the actual movers but due to the ruination of our things and no recourse, I do not recommend this moving company. I'm not going to say their name but it rhymes with "Berguson Boving & Borage".
I DO, however, recommend Hour Movers in Victoria, they did all our local moves and were AWESOME.
Anyway. So we had a lot of stuff to unpack and a bunch of moldy garbage. Then Katr found Barb and Alejandra from Victoria Organizers.
Like Debbie and Richard who helped us pack, Barb and Alejandra helped us unpack AND organized a lot of our shit AND took away the recycling and trash. And they made it look so easy.
They started with the kitchen.
And did some of their best work in the "hobby room", where Katr's enormous board game collection lives, if you don't count the 30 or so that are in our office.
The whole time they were here I felt like a hippo watching a couple of hummingbirds creating order out of chaos and I wanted to get in on the action, so I put myself in charge of organizing our giant walk-in closet.
I gathered all of our clothes and shoes and such and piled them on our bed, which turned out to be a genius move because otherwise, we would have been stepping over piles of clothes I would "get to, Jesus, get OFF my JOCK" for days.
I know this clothes pile looks like a lot of clothes and you know what, it IS, way more than I thought either of us have but keep in mind that creampuff clothes are also large and take up a lot of space.
And then, came the worst part of organizing: thinking, planning, bending and doing. Here's my side:
And Katr's side, this closet is HUGE, I actually do little workouts in here.
Did you think it would look sexier than this when it was done? Me too but whatever, I need to lie down.
I'm embarrassed to tell you this, but this took me almost six hours. Barb and Alejandra did most of the rest of the house -- AND THE SHED OUTDOORS -- in the same amount of time. Showboating.
I loved them. And if you live in the Greater Victoria area, you will too.
Now that we were all moved in, we could focus on some other home improvement projects. Here's a sneak peek at the biggest one.
And as a special treat, here is a video that Katr accidentally shot in slow motion of me pretending the Christmas tree box is a wang. It's over a minute long, you can pretty much get it from the first 15 seconds.
A long overdue 50x50 update:
Vegetarian meals: 17
5km walks: 10
Board game plays: 8
French lessons: 7
Blog posts: 7 (pitiful)
