It’s been a week since the BIG MOVE and I am somewhat recovered. Last Thursday was 12 hours of getting ready for the movers – clearing snow at both houses and getting a temporary fence up at the new place for the dogs. Temperatures were in the teens and the snow was about 8 inches deep and the wind was whipping pretty good – basically a miserable day to be outside all day. My thumb hurt like he ll because I fishhooked a piece of wire into it while putting up the fence the day before. It was covered with blood and I couldn’t see how the wire went in. After wiggling it a while I decided it was too damn cold for this this s**t and gave it yank. Ripped a nice ¼ divot out of my thumb.
Moving day was just brutal. The movers arrived at the old house at 8 AM and I didn’t give them their tips and waved goodbye until 10:30 PM. I was outside most of the time, directing traffic and helping to carry stuff. Late in the day I noticed my fingers hurting but I was too tired to think about it. Looked at them the next morning and the skin at the corners of my nails had split – the result of working for hours in cold wet gloves.
It’s a hour commute from between houses and I thought moving into the new place and living here while I worked on it was a good idea. I’m beginning to rethink that now that we’ve moved. I hope our experience is on an upward curve, but it’s still pretty bad. The house if full of dust and cartons of stuff and furniture stacked in random places. The kitchen remodel won’t be finished for a couple of weeks, so we don’t have much of a kitchen. I’m converting one of the bedrooms to a TV room, which means ripping out a bathroom and two walls. The demo of the bathroom is about finished and it is UGLY in there.
The skin on my fingers cracked open due to being in freezing cold, wet gloves for hours and hours.
I ripped a ¼ divot out of my thumb. It’s still throbbing a week later.
Our beautiful new home is piled with crap.
This main floor 13’x16’ bedroom was scheduled to be turned into a media room. That meant tearing out the bathroom behind the wall on the right, and the wall beyond that.
One wall down.
Almost finished with the demo.