Moving -- what a pain in the ass...

...and the legs... and the arms... ohhh, especially the arms. Especially when you're lifting heavy boxes! Itai, ne? But it's also been quite fun, especially with Angelica (and Duo) helping out. =D Let's see...

On Monday we went and ordered a very nice dining room table. Too bad it won't be delivered until January because they have to get the frame in from Canada or something. Then we went and ordered my sister's new bed -- a queen size captain's bed. Very nice. (Kind of expensive.) Lucky her. I get stuck with her twin size storage bed. Actually, I like it a lot. I just wish I had enough room in the basement (which will be my room) for a queen size bed. ::sigh::

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we (my parents, my sister, me and Angelica) rented a van and brought our boxes full of stuff, plus some furniture (like bookcases, dressers, and stuff like that) to the new house. Which, btw, is about, uh, I'd say 15 miles away from where we are now. Except, well, that's a house and right now we're still in an apartment. That was lots and lots of tiring work. A whole lotta sweating going on. o.O*

Practically my whole room in the apartment was moved out over those two days. Is that good or bad? Whatever.

On Thursday we went to the house and started painting the basement. The previous owners had a 4 or 5-year old kid there so the whole basement was pastel pinks and blues with clowns -- CLOWNS, for chrissakes! So we had bought primer, plus 2 cans of white paint (Stone Arrowhead) for the basement. My mom and I put on the primer around 10, finished around 11:30. Went upstairs to my sister's bedroom (where the walls were also pastel blue and pink ::shudder::) and put primer on there, too (11:30 to 1:30). Then ordered food.

We were starving!

Then Angelica showed up while we were waiting for the primer in the basement to dry. It normally would've been dry at 1:30, but it was all rainy and humid outside that day so it took another hour and a half! So while we were waiting we unpacked the new dishes we bought and loaded them in the dishwasher.

So, finally went down and started painting. My sister was helping this time. We got that first coat on (eventually). The clowns and fish and things were still peeking through a bit, but the 2nd coat finished them off later.

Never did get a chance to paint my sister's bedroom. Well, it isn't so bad because her bed isn't being delivered until October 1st, so we have a little over a week in which to paint it. It should only take one day. A whole day, but only one. It's going to be white on 3 walls (Polar White), and green on the 4th wall (I don't remember exactly which green). Should look interesting & cool!

So today we packed up a lot of the stuff that was left at our apartment. We still have more stuff, but we'll have to bring that over between Monday and Friday because tomorrow (Saturday) two of my father's friends will be coming over to help us move the really heavy furniture (living room couch, 32" TV, my sister's storage bed which will now be mine, etc.). Then on Sunday, we'll move whatever furniture is left over. So Monday to Friday will be the rest of the junk in this place.

Oh, so today we also went over to the house (brought one or two boxes with us) and put down the carpet in the basement so that when they move the storage bed there tomorrow, it's all ready. All the walls are white. No clowns. It's SUCH a relief, you wouldn't believe!

::sigh::

Meanwhile, I forgot to mention.... I have a cold! So does my sister and father! Gah! Talk about BAD TIMING! Okie, I really have to go.... gotta get up early tomorrow and go work hard...

*oooooh~! But I got Koyasu 006, Crashers: Knight & Ran, and the new Schwein CD today! (My stuff from CD Japan!) Yay!