Oh dear

I have access to the outside world!! My phone turned on today! My internet turned on today! I still don't have cell phone service at my house, but I have internet!!

I would like to make a list of things I like and dislike about this place. Maybe I should just focus on the good, but the bad is so funny that I really think you'd enjoy reading it.

For example, gnats. Why did God create these tiny little good-for-nothing creatures? They swarm in huge blobs, they bite, and you must be careful when walking through your yard, because if you happen to walk through one of the swarms they'll fly in your nose and mouth, YUCK!

In my last couple of posts, I was telling you about how some of our things are missing and how things were packed. Well, it gets better. Our bed broke over the weekend. My 2 year old, nice, sturdy, expensive, first ever new "grown up" bed is broken. Apparently the movers that moved us in last week didn't put it together properly.

I have a (California) King, so there is a center board that goes down the middle and keeps the two twin size box springs up. Attached to this are supposed to be 3 'pedestal' type feet that go to the ground and help support that center beam, the box springs, and the mattress. The feet were not attached to the center beam. Not only that, but the slats they used under the box springs were not the ones that belonged with our bed. They were for Blake's bunkbed. The slats that go on our bed are supposed to be screwed in.

What is amazing to me is how these things just disappeared. There was supposed to be a "hardware" box. A box that all the screws and stuff from the taken apart beds. The packers didn't pack this stuff because our beds were taken apart on the move day by the driver and his crew.

I called the people that moved us in and told him what happened with my bed. He came out this morning to look at the bed and see if he could find the hardware box in the garage. He couldn't find it, either. He said he would call a furniture repair place and see if they could come and fix the bed and the crib (since we're still missing the screws for it as well). I'm sorry, but they already screwed up a lot. I'm not going to give them another shot at it, just to keep me from filing a claim, only to have it break again in a month or so. I'd rather just file the claim and get the reimbursement money then call the manufacturer and get the replacement parts through them and fix it ourselves. I can just see them saying "oh, this screw seems like it'll fit" and using that method to fix Luke's crib. Uh, no.

The good news is, the movers that moved our stuff here are locals. Hopefully this can be resolved before it gets ugly.

We're moved in!

We still don't have internet, and won't until Monday. We're in a wifi hotspot right now. I typed this up yesterday.

We moved into our house this past Monday, and for 5 days we’ve been learning what Grade A Jerks our packers were. I’ve got a few Navy Moves under my belt now, so I’m used to their craptastic way of packing, but nothing could have prepared either one of us for what we’ve been finding since moving in here. I’ll just share some highlights. When we moved to San Diego, our pot and pan lids didn’t make it to our house, so we were looking to make sure they made it here. Especially considering I just spent a good chunk of change on Pampered Chef cookware right before we left California. I hadn’t even used some of it yet! After opening all the boxes labeled “Kitchen” or “K.Food” we couldn’t find our pot and pan lids (Again! What is it with pot and pan lids?) or all the canned food we knew we had. In the meantime, we’re also looking for the screws to the crib.

On Tuesday night, Jerry is opening a box with a High Value label on it, which means the contents are high in value, how ingenious right? We knew that it was one of our computers because of the serial number markings on the outside. What we didn’t expect to find were our pot and pan lids, bottles of vinegar (yes you read that right), cooking oil, and various other liquids along with each component of the computer (printer, monitor, mouse and keyboard, and cpu) all wrapped in paper, individually for safety I should sarcastically add, shoved into one big box. Thankfully, there was no harm to the computer, that we can tell externally anyway; we haven’t hooked it up yet.

The next day I found our canned food! Yeah, they were in a box labeled “Bath Items” along with liquid medicines, the girls’ hair ties, and a container of carpet powder deodorizer (you know what I’m talking about, right? That stuff you sprinkle on your carpet before you vacuum.) Well, wouldn’t you guess, it busted open during the move. Now our pantry smells all nice and linen fresh.

I’ll stop complaining, but I will tell you that we still haven’t found the crib screws, and almost all the boxes have been opened. Luke has been sleeping in the pack-n-play. He’s not complaining.