Thursday, June 17, 2010

Movin' On Up

As the Jefferson's would say: Well we're movin' on up, To the west side. To a deluxe ranch floor plan in the sky. Movin' on up. To the west side. We finally got a piece of the pie!

We're packing things left and right these days. This past weekend after acquiring many free boxes from Amberly's work (thanks Abante), we worked for a few hours taking all of the decorative things around the apartment down. Our books, decorative kitchen plates, office items, and bar ware were next to be packed. Not much is left but the kitchen and clothes in our Master Bedroom. It feels good to have a clean slate and to remind ourselves that everything in our apartment will have plenty of space in our house.

After we patted ourselves on the back and chilled out with a glass of juice in hand, we noticed there was one more thing left to do. You see, when we first moved in to our apartment we didn't own a level (well, I guess we still don't own a level). So it made hanging things a little more challenging. But have no fear. We "eye balled it" best we could and drew pretty pencil lines on our walls. (We WILL NOT be doing this at the new house.) Needless to say, there were A LOT of marks on our walls along with nail holes that may or may not have held nails. Out came trusty Mr. Spackle and Mr. Clean's Magic Erasers.

Ryan was a pro at the Magic Eraser business. He not only cleaned up the scuffs from our picture debacles, but went nuts and cleaned up and down the hallways. We have played many rounds of catch in the hallway with the football during those gloomy winter months, so there were quite a few pigskin marks to be cleaned. I tackled the spackle (haha that rhymes) and filled all of the deep holes and then flattened them out to dry. All in all we felt it was a pretty wonderful afternoon of packing and cleaning. We'll have to get use to those, as 850 sq feet is a lot less to clean than 2800.



Ryan showing off the spackle job above him


The kitchen is pretty much packed up


And so is the bedroom


Another view of the packing!

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