Packing Puzzle

I spent my long weekend moving apartments and being sick, neither of which I was originally anticipating. We were planning on apartment switching the week before, but lucky me, I landed overnight call that weekend, and I didn't want to move in the morning and then go see sick kids. So moving fell to the long weekend. Which is good in terms of getting an extra day to settle in and move, but it sort of sucks because I wanted to fully enjoy the long weekend, not spend endless hours moving and cleaning and stressing about it all.

Spending the week packing was difficult in making everything fit as neatly and efficiently as possible. It's like playing tetris with boxes and little items. I was super lucky in having so many awesome friends help out, all of whom were a whole lot stronger than me, too, which was helpful in moving boxes that I personally couldn't really lift. I'm proud to say this time around, I was much better at packing things without just throwing things into little plastic bags. Crates were packed to the max, boxes were consolidated. My kitchenware was also packed quite efficiently in its gigantic crate, and without my mom's help, which makes it more impressive. Although to be honest, a lot of that credit goes to my friend. He was the mastermind of the packing. And he practically single-handedly set up the new apartment for my roommate and me, helping us put our mattresses and furniture in their right places, putting together my futon, and setting up our wireless internet so I can type this happy vent session. I never truly realized how lost I am without being able to use the internet, and more than that I really don't know what I'd do without him.

Moving was stressful as hell, complicated by cleaning of the old apartment and all the dramatic shenanigans that go alongside it. And of course, cleaning also pretty much always takes longer than anticipated too. But I would say as of today, the old place is completely cleaned up and our new place is prob 95% unpacked. Just need to do a quick wash of the floors of our new place, unpack a few of my random plastic bags lying around and things will be put to rest. 

I'm so glad the move is over, although it does kind of suck that it pretty much took the whole weekend so I didn't get to study or really hang out and enjoy the lovely weather. I'd rather play a real game of tetris than have to move anytime soon.