Wednesday, July 27, 2011

HHE and Spring Cleaning

Building my shelf
What a long and exhausting day.  My HHE arrived today.  But before that happened, I was awake at 4 am.  I'm not sure why I woke up so early and couldn't sleep, but I got up and put together my DVD shelf that I got yesterday.  I figured it would be good to have that done before the movers came.  I also cleaned a little in preparation.
The movers got here around 9 am.  Then it took a little for them to be ready to bring the stuff in.  Apparently they didn't have a truck large enough to bring my crate, so they had to break it open.  Then they started bringing things in.  I directed which room to put the stuff in and marked it off on my inventory.  Everything that I shipped arrived.  Unfortunately, there were somethings that I looked at later and thought, why didn't I ship that?  Oh well, too late now.
Gizmo "helping"
Then began the task of opening everything up.  Most of the stuff I just had them pile in the room where the box was located.  I didn't want all those empty boxes left in my house.  Some things I was able to have them put on shelves.  They left around 11 am with all the empty boxes and packing material.  They were even nice enough to take the box from my UAB.
After they left, I started putting things away.  As I was doing it, I decided to clean.  I worked all day until just a few minutes ago.  10 hours of work, and I didn't finish.  I got my bathroom, the second bathroom, and one of the bedrooms cleaned.  I also got all my dishes washed and put away, the beds made, and the linen put away.  Mostly what I have left besides cleaning is the study: my computer, my DVDs (I don't have enough room on the shelves for all of those, and random things).  Man I am exhausted.  I wonder how many calories I burned doing all that today?
The finished shelf
My kitchen counter full of stuff
Empty boxes, but not all of them
Stuff piled everywhere
Cleaning my bathroom
The clean bathroom
My first meal in my house on my own plates
Listening to music while I work
Gizmo loves these pink sheets
Everything put away!

2 comments:

Frank said...

your house looks way cute, can't wait to come visit. Just wondering in the last picture why you have a coffee maker? Do you have a purpose for it?

rayecheal said...

Yeah, it came with the house! :) I just never bothered to take it down. They'll eventually come & take that away though.