My Weekend!
I hate Moving!
It all started at 5:30 am on Friday when I went to my car to head into work(It was a friday closure) to make up the hours I am taking off on this coming Friday for the offical move. I drove a few blocks and discovered I had a flat tire. I mean flat! luckily there was a gas station there so I pulled over and tried to pump some air into when I discovered not only was it flat but it was popped off the rim so it would never hold air.
So here I am at 5:30am in a mini skirt having to change a tire at a gas station. people are coming and going and not one person asked if I needed help. Then I discover my jack is bent and wont hold up the car high enough before it loses balance and falls over. So I decide to go into the gas statation and ask if they have a jack. The guy says no but he has one in his car and I ask if I can borrow it and he says no. THEN WHY MENTION IT!!!!!
So back outside I go. So now I am at a loss at what to do so I open my trunk and search through my dirty laundry that I had in the back to take to Edmonton to wash and find my fleece pajama bottoms and put them on over my skirt for warmth for it's like -8 degree's celcius.
So I finally find an alternative jack location that is far enough back that I don't need to raise it as high before the wheel can be removed. So now the tire is changed. You would think my battle was almost complete, but no, I only have a doughnut for a spare so now I need to get a new tire.
It took me an hour to get the tire changed when usually it takes me a max. 10 minutes to change a tire. So it's now 6:30am. Nothing is open so I decide to drive to Canadian Tire to wait till they open to get my tire changed. I am sitting in the parking lot when this guy from the Automotive department who was clearing out the mechanic bays, to put in the car's to be worked on into the garage. He see's me parked there waiting and walks over, so I open my window to hear what he has to say.
He informs me that he had noticed my doughnut and was assuming I was there to have a tire installed and wanted to let me know that before I sat there for another 1 1/2 hours till they opened that they are back logged a lot and they wouldn't get to me till late afternoon so I would have to leave my car.
This wouldn't normally be such a big deal because Canadian Tire is within easy walking distance from My mother-in-laws(who I am living with in Calgary) but my husband was coming in on the bus at 12:30 that afternoon so that we could go see the house we are buying for he hadn't seen it yet, and go to the lawyers to sign all the paper work for selling our house and buying the one here in Calgary.
So I left and decided to find another place, so I went to Walmart and waited till 8am for them to open. Found the service station waited in line for a 1/2 hour for them to tell me as well that they wouldn'tbe able to get to it till late afternoon. So I storm off in a huff swearing at the guy :-) Can you picture it! Me?
So I tried a couple of more places till I came to Baskin & lane and he asked me if he could help me, and I said "Yes, by telling me you can have a tire changed before 12 noon" and he said Sure I can tell you that :-) He had it done by 10:15!!! I was so happy, but by this time to pick up my Husband at 12:30 I didn't have time to drive to work. I would have like what an hour to work, not worth it?
So I went back to Scott's mom's, I decided to die my hair instead and it turned out a heck of a lot darker then it was supposed too. It's almost BLACK! My mother is going to cringe! So once that was done I headed to pick up my husband, Who ended up taking the later bus so I ended up sitting and waiting for him for 45 minutes.
At least viewing the house and seeing the lawyer went some what smoothly. Besides having a heck of a time finding the lawyers office. So then after the Lawyers (like 5:30pm) we headed back to Edmonton. We got to Edmonton a little after 9pm, relaxed for a few minutes watched Enterprise and went to bed.
Got up Saturday morning and took my dog for an 1 1/2 hour walk, and then we started packing, and organizing. Got a call from the guy who bought our house, he had a few potential renters wanting to see the place at noon. We told him the place was a mess but feel free, so he come's by and shows the place which was just fine, but then he got looking and talking over the lawyer papers and he decided they were done wrong which if that is so will put back the whole process of taking possession of the new house and selling our old one and will cost us more money. FUN!
So after he left I had to quickly shower to go meet a friend of mine who had out of the blue called and asked to see me which is very unusual so I felt I should go, plus I always love to see her. Turns out she's pregnant after trying for two months, she's also already 3 months pregnant. Great news!!!! I am glad one of us has been lucky in that department.
So then I headed home and we got some more packing done and then we had another possible renter come by to view the place and this time the guy who is trying to rent our house showed up late so we ended up having to show her the place. She seemed to love the place but is hoping to move in sooner then what we originally intended to move out by. So now we need to work faster for it would save us a bit of cash. Then at 7pm we had to take Tyra(our Dog) to a Fly ball practice. Where because My Husband can't walk (he had his Knee operated on a short while ago) well let alone run, I ended up having to run with her and my first time down when I was supposed to cross over, I miscalculated how long it would take Tyra to grab the ball and turn around and ended up tripping on her and landed on my head and got a slight concussion.
We were there for two hours, imagine having a slight concussion, now imagine being in a small concrete building with 12 dogs barking as loud as they can and continuously the whole time. NOT PRETTY!!!! and Tyra was the loudest of them all!
Then Sunday came along!!!!!
We got up Sunday morning and I worked on packing up the kitchen while my husband started loading his truck up for taking a load to the dump. Then we get a call from the guy at 9:15 that left his couches at our place for storage, him and a freiend were coming over at 10:30 to get the couches and they needed Our truck to move them. Remember we were loading the truck for a dump trip?
So now we are rushing around trying to load all the garbage up and all the crap stuff we don't want to take with us so we can rush to the dump and unload it all and be back by 10:30, so we had an hour and 15 minutes. FUN! We made it back at 10:45, which worked out well because they had arrived at 10:30 and had the couches already out on the front lawn because Our roommate was home and had let them in.
So we loaded them up and took them to the guys place. We unloaded the stuff and made it home by 12 noon, which was pretty good timing. So now we needed to finish all our packing because it ends up the person who is going to be renting it want's to move in this coming weekend. so now we are in a little bit more of a crunch for we thought we had two weeks left to clean and all that stuff. So we worked our butts off and were done by 4pm.
Now we quickly loaded up another load of truck(1950 ford) parts into Scott's truck to take to my parents place to store. We left at 5pm and we didn't arrive to my parents till almost 8pm. Then it took an hour to get my father motivated and off the phone to help us unload the stuff so that we could head back to the city.
We left them at 9:30pm and arrived back in Edmonton at 11pm last night. So we hit the sack and I got up at 3:30 am to drive to Calgary to be at work by 7am this morning. CRAZY. Plus I had to do all the driving all weekend because My husband still can't drive and his Truck is Horrible to drive!
Well that's my weekend!