Moving, yet again. I hate moving. I hate packing. I hate unpacking. I hate cleaning so I can move in and still having to clean so I can move out. I hate everything to do with moving except moving out of bug village. This time around while not enjoying the actual work, I am so pleased to move every single piece of my stuff. I have sprayed each box, each room each box goes into, empty boxes…you name it and I’m spraying it! I do not intend for the bugs to move with me. Please bear in mind that I’m not talking about regular bugs. No, these are huge alien bugs. They attack us in the middle of the night. Even the dogs are scared of them. Just a few more days and I will be far, far away from this particular alien life form.
Seriously though, moving is a huge chore. I’ve been cleaning out stuff to get rid of – I have almost as many “yard sale” boxes headed to the storage as I do regular boxes actually going to our house. I never knew how much stuff I had that I didn’t need until a lot of it never got unpacked at the bug house. Why unpack something so it can be attacked….
A big plus to moving 3 times within a year is that even my kids are getting rid of stuff they have decided they no longer need. Guess they got tired of packing it all up. 🙂 Gotta love the silver lining….
Now, if I could just get my landlord to be reasonable. Apparently my lease went through the end of October instead of the beginning of October. Never mind that I gave them 45 days verbal notice and 30 days written notice…they are screaming broken contract. I actually find that quite funny considering that my lease said they would repair damages and the window has been broken ever since I moved in; the roof started leaking about a month ago and still leaks; they only sprayed for alien bugs prior to my moving in, they have shown up unannounced to cut trees (common courtesy says call to let me know they will be there) not to mention my right to quiet enjoyment of my property. That all ads up to stress. Finally, after an hour long conversation, we (the landlord and I) agreed that I would leave the house just as I found it. From my perspective it was un-mowed and dirty. From his perspective it was partially mowed and he gave me dollars off the rent to clean and mow. I offered to let him keep my deposit and get the yard mowed. He wants to take the deposit because I’m vacating early and charge me for mowing and partial months rent. We finally agreed to disagree on who violated the lease agreement.
Bottom line is we are out of there by this Saturday. Good luck to the new tenants. They have to have thick skin to deal with the aliens.