Trials, Tribulations, and Trailers

Yesterday we got our trailer at 5 pm. It's a huge, 28' long cargo trailer 9 feet wide. The way the whole thing works is the shipping co. drops off the trailer and then we get three days to load it before we call themto pick it up. We estimated using around 9 feet of the trailer, but we actually only get charged for what we actually use. If we use less space(and I think we will) we get a credit to the tune of about a hundred dollars per foot. When we're done loading, there's a big bulkhead we install wherever we stop. The shipping co. then picks it up, and fills the rest with freight at their shipping center before driving on east. They'll clear out the freight and drop the trailer in front of our duplex in st. Louis.

Loading and packing is so frustrating. We pack and load and load and load, and the apartment never seems to empty. Part of it is we're taking stuff out of the incredible storage capacity of the apartment and our furniture, and part of it is just having a lot of stuff. I think we might be halfway packed and it's now Wednesday evening. I was hoping to have had our packing done by tonight so we could clean and patch the walls ahead of our walkthrough win the landlord at 3 tomorrow.

To be fair, we did take a nice lunch break at the Parlor, a nice pizza restaurant on Camelback. We meet up with two friends of ours who both work at the same architecture firm, incidently the same firm that designed the pizza restaurant. Lunch was very nice, we split a few pies and a salad, and I felt started to feel relatively normal.

It's wednesday night now, and we're nowhere near done. We're about out of boxes, so we made a run to Wal-Mart for some big storage bins, and we're going to hit up Safeway tomorrow first thing for boxes. We'll see what we can get, and then its going to turn into a pack and load scramble. We just ran out of time. We've inflated the blow-up mattress, and we're showering (carefully) without a curtain, but we just can't have a slow start tomorrow by driving down to mom's tonight. Looking around our bedroom, and around the apartment, it strikes me that there's still so much to do. And today's rain did NOT help.