Moving Process

I apartment looks a little better than this now (since most of the boxes are gone) but I thought I would share a little of the chaos of the last week. Here is a shot of our kitchen/dining area full of boxes. We don't own a table small enough to fit here so it is not the dining room. We do however have a dishwasher which is a Godsend since we have a small single sink and very little counter space. When the dish washer is running the hot water for our apartment (and I think our building ) does not work because we have very little hot pressure. I have to choose times when I think other apartment dwellers are out of the building to do laundry and do the dishes. This is our living room/bedroom. We are glad for the futon which helps transform the space to a usable living room during the day. I will have to admit i don't sleep to well on it but this too shall pass. :) The air conditioner (which I can't reach) up on the left hand corner is very helpful in blocking the street noise as we live downtown. I appreciate the big window plus the other 2 windows in the living room because they are keeping my plants alive so far and make the place much cheerier. the precious tenant left 2 bookshelves (score 2 for Andrew! :) and an entertainment center so we have a place for our books and little t.v. :) We also moved in our other 3 bookshelves so there are bookshelves almost lining the walls. I think it is a dream come true for Andrew, being surrounded in books :). I use 2 of the shelves for pantry/appliances which really helps since there are very few cupboards. This is a pile of paper I unpacked from about 1/3 of our boxes. It almost reaches the ceiling! I know that the movers did not want to break anything but this is a little over kill! Especially when I went to unpack this box and found that every single one of my spices was packed INDIVIDUALLY! No wonder it took the movers about 11 1/2 hours!!! (I was trying to figure out how they could ever move a family of 4+ in a day if it took this long for a family of 2!) not to mention we had about 1/2 the stuff packed already for them!
I think Lucy was the only one that loved all the paper :) I am happy to report that our temporary home is just about in a state of normalcy. Almost all the boxes are out and the paper is all gone. I have to still decide exactly how I want things to be set up but it is very livable now. I will hopefully post some pictures of our apartment in a clean state soon. I have to come to the library to post things now so it will take a little longer than it used to. Hope you all are doing well!