We moved up our move-in date and got most of the "stuff of life" transported to the new house over the weekend. We had some great help from my friend Melissa's husband, Mark, and his big truck on Saturday morning. He's an engineer, and I've decided that all my future moves will require the service of an engineer, preferably a cheerful and helpful one like Mark.
We slept in the house on Saturday and Sunday, which would have worked better if 1) the previous owners had left us some damn curtain rods, 2) our cat were not a total freak, and 3) we hadn't removed the side from Connery's bed in an attempt to make him a new big-boy bed. The first night was OK, probably by virtue of our sheer exhaustion (although the yowling cat was a big distraction), but last night all hell broke loose.
At 12:30 a.m., Connery fell out of his big-boy bed. He wasn't hurt, but he certainly was scared. That was Sotek's signal to re-commence the yowling that is somehow necessary to acclimatize one's feline self to a new space. At 3:00 a.m., Connery fell out again. Worse yet, the binkies were totally AWOL, necessitating an all-points search complete with flood lights and naked floor-crawling. We then put boxes by the side of his bed to prevent future falls.
The cat was totally up by this point, wandering around the sleeping areas meowing pitifully until I locked her in the laundry room with her litter box. She then decided that scratching the under-door carpet strip would be a good diversion. The sound of cat claws in carpet is nearly as bad as her yowling, so I let her out at about 4:30. By 5 a.m. (Sunrise! Good morning! You have NO CURTAINS!), she was back in our room with the meowing again. At one point, she and Chip were engaged in a charming snore-yowl duet that when something like this:
MEEEEEEEOOOOW...HONK-SHU...MEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOW...HONK-SHU...MEEEEEEEEEOOOOW...HONK-
SHU...
That was 5:30. The alarm went off at 6.
That's life at chez moi currently. On the plus side, the kitchen is lovely in the morning, all cool wafting breezes and sunshine AND we remembered the salt and pepper last night, so we got to spice our breakfast. Oh, and we're moving the washer and dryer this morning, and should have the phone and Internet in the new place by tomorrow. Hooray!