Sitting on a Cardboard Box

No, I'm not really sitting on a cardboard box. Our computer room is a safe-room today -- won't be packed until other rooms have been completely cleared so we have a place to move modem, routers, etc to when it's time to pack the desk. So, not only am I sitting in a chair, I am getting to use Frank the Monster Machine until probably tomorrow when it gets packed. (Frank has the best RAM in the house. Perfect for crunching pictures.)

Anyhow, today is Day 2 of the pack-out. Yesterday, we scrambled to have everything ready and organized by 9:00, and at 10:30, the movers rolled in. Then they worked (steadily and well, I must say) for the next 5 hours before they popped a head in this room (where Ariel and I are hanging out of the way) and said, "Okay. The truck is full, so we're going to call it a day." "?!?!" we said. The truck is that tiny little thing above. Our stuff is packed on location into these wooden freighter crates, nailed closed, and at the end of the day, the movers take it down to the depot where the crates go into a freighter box. So, though the day of packing seems short to us, they work a full 8 hours in driving and loading. I hope. This is going to take the whole week because of that short truck.

This morning, about 5 minutes before the actual movers came, Air Force Housing brought by our temporary furniture. So we happily informed the movers to pack up the bedrooms (which they had spared so we'd have a place to sleep). 20 minutes after this, the housing people came by with The Kit -- the non-furniture things like sheets, towels, basic kitchen stuff. It was then that the lady said, "There's just you for just this week, right?" Um, no. There are 4 of us. For the next month. Her eyes went wide and she realized that somewhere, our housing orders had been mixed up. So we also didn't have enough furniture for 4 -- no beds for the girls. Hopefully this will be sorted before the day is out.

What little furniture we have is all stacked in the dining room -- our only empty room.

This all seems very final.