Week 30 - Unpacking

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What a week. Despite my best efforts to maintain a rotten attitude about it, all the pieces for the last leg of our trip to Oregon fell neatly into place. Looking back on it, it's hard to deny that everything went about as smoothly as they could go. I closed on the house Wednesday morning and after twiddling my thumbs all day, I finally got the keys to the house that same afternoon. The movers came on Thursday. Although they lost a few things and broke a few others (as movers will often do), the vast majority of our stuff showed up on time and intact. The Comcast guy came out on Friday morning to equip us with services absolutely necessary for survival (cable and Internet) and I spent Friday  afternoon down on campus getting set up in my new office. Finally, my parents drove out on Saturday to drop off the people necessary for my survival (Kimbre and baby Jay), officially marking the end of our move.

Although it feels good to be here, we can't relax quite yet. Our house is a hurricane of boxes, packing paper, and our scattered belongings. The unpacking process reminds me of the worst possible Christmas one could imagine. You spend all day unpacking gifts which at best will be your stuff in the original condition and at worst will be a paper parcel full of broken glass - a gift we received just this very evening. We're making progress though. We spent all night tonight unpacking and preparing the master bedroom. Add that to the unpacked kitchen and living room and this new house of ours is finally starting to feel like a home. It's going to take some time and effort, but we're getting there.

We still have quite a bit more work until we're done but we're slowly making progress. The best way to eat an elephant, after all, is one bite at a time. And we have ourselves one mighty fine elephant sandwich that should keep us busy for a few more weeks at least.