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I guess the weekend is over
Happy Fathers' Day to all of my lovely friends who play a paternal role in someone else's life. <3
As for me, I ended up skipping yesterday's update in favour of passing out in bed. The weekend has been a quiet one as we are sloooooowly settling in. A lot didn't go according to plan, but we are adjusting our expectations and our course of action accordingly, and two nights of sleep have gone a long way to making it easier to roll with the punches.
Yesterday we mostly took it easy. The two of us were just completely burnt out after weeks of work and the last week of frantic packing and prepping and Friday's day of working on moving for the entire day. I started my day at 5:00 and didn't stop until nearly 21:00, at which point I all but faceplanted in my bed. Peggy's crate is now in my room, and she bounced all over the place on Friday night rather than sleep nicely in my bed with me, so I put her in the crate, and she proceeded to bark and whine and howl on and off for the entire night. It sucked. Both KK and I opted to take an afternoon nap, though, and by then Peggy figured it out and got with the program. She slept nicely with me the whole time, and slept nicely most of the night through (with a small exception at about 3:00 when she decided she was awake and found a plastic bottle to chew on very loudly for what felt like a very long time but realistically wasn't more than ten or fifteen minutes).
Tonight she is snoozing on the bed already, so I am optimistic that she and I are settling into a nice groove for sharing the bed and not having her be an absolute terror. Time will tell.
Today was much more productive. I cleared out almost the entire kitchen, which is saying something because it was packed so full of stuff we literally could not get in there for love or money, cleared off the counters, did a load of dishes, and got rid of all the old plastic Tupperware I'd been meaning to dispose of for quite some time (not the good kind of Tupperware, in case you're worried). I also did two loads of laundry, and I made pancakes for breakfast and pasta with parmesan for dinner (nothing fancy at all, but at least I got the both of us fed!). All in all it's been a good day, and my mood is much improved after sleep and visible progress being made on the house. KK even unpacked all of her good china and put it away in the cabinet, and unpacked enough to get her home office set up downstairs. Progress on all fronts!
So now the goal is to get everything else unpacked, and to somehow rearrange the garage so that her car will fit in there even though the movers packed it full of stuff that was never meant to go in there to begin with. One item is her washing machine, which we are never going to be able to get into the basement on our own, and the other big item is a rather big cupboard which I might be able to wrangle down the stairs. We need to be able to get the garage cleared back to almost its original state if we both want to park our cars here, and right now that is night impossible. I am still quite annoyed at the movers for refusing to bring things to the basement because they were in a hurry and the move had taken them longer than expected, but there's nothing to be done about that now except deal with the fallout of their shoddy service.
I am sure we will make it all work. I had a bit of a dark night of the soul on Friday, but I think that was mostly exhaustion taking its toll. Tomorrow I have to go back to work, though, and I am not especially looking forward to it. I could use a break, but I will be getting the opposite of that for the next two and a half months. It's only 10 weeks, I can make it.
As for me, I ended up skipping yesterday's update in favour of passing out in bed. The weekend has been a quiet one as we are sloooooowly settling in. A lot didn't go according to plan, but we are adjusting our expectations and our course of action accordingly, and two nights of sleep have gone a long way to making it easier to roll with the punches.
Yesterday we mostly took it easy. The two of us were just completely burnt out after weeks of work and the last week of frantic packing and prepping and Friday's day of working on moving for the entire day. I started my day at 5:00 and didn't stop until nearly 21:00, at which point I all but faceplanted in my bed. Peggy's crate is now in my room, and she bounced all over the place on Friday night rather than sleep nicely in my bed with me, so I put her in the crate, and she proceeded to bark and whine and howl on and off for the entire night. It sucked. Both KK and I opted to take an afternoon nap, though, and by then Peggy figured it out and got with the program. She slept nicely with me the whole time, and slept nicely most of the night through (with a small exception at about 3:00 when she decided she was awake and found a plastic bottle to chew on very loudly for what felt like a very long time but realistically wasn't more than ten or fifteen minutes).
Tonight she is snoozing on the bed already, so I am optimistic that she and I are settling into a nice groove for sharing the bed and not having her be an absolute terror. Time will tell.
Today was much more productive. I cleared out almost the entire kitchen, which is saying something because it was packed so full of stuff we literally could not get in there for love or money, cleared off the counters, did a load of dishes, and got rid of all the old plastic Tupperware I'd been meaning to dispose of for quite some time (not the good kind of Tupperware, in case you're worried). I also did two loads of laundry, and I made pancakes for breakfast and pasta with parmesan for dinner (nothing fancy at all, but at least I got the both of us fed!). All in all it's been a good day, and my mood is much improved after sleep and visible progress being made on the house. KK even unpacked all of her good china and put it away in the cabinet, and unpacked enough to get her home office set up downstairs. Progress on all fronts!
So now the goal is to get everything else unpacked, and to somehow rearrange the garage so that her car will fit in there even though the movers packed it full of stuff that was never meant to go in there to begin with. One item is her washing machine, which we are never going to be able to get into the basement on our own, and the other big item is a rather big cupboard which I might be able to wrangle down the stairs. We need to be able to get the garage cleared back to almost its original state if we both want to park our cars here, and right now that is night impossible. I am still quite annoyed at the movers for refusing to bring things to the basement because they were in a hurry and the move had taken them longer than expected, but there's nothing to be done about that now except deal with the fallout of their shoddy service.
I am sure we will make it all work. I had a bit of a dark night of the soul on Friday, but I think that was mostly exhaustion taking its toll. Tomorrow I have to go back to work, though, and I am not especially looking forward to it. I could use a break, but I will be getting the opposite of that for the next two and a half months. It's only 10 weeks, I can make it.