Packing, moving and cleaning up aftermath

I spent my whole weekend packing, moving out stuffs and cleaning up my apartment. It was very tiring and frustrating at the same time. It's like everyone didn't want us to move out. First, our UHaul reservation got canceled without them telling me in advance. We went there, waited in line for almost 30 minutes and when we finally reached the front desk, the representative told us that they didn't have any trucks available for us, so we need to reschedule for Sunday morning and we would only get it for 4.5 hours instead of the original 16 hours. Second, we still didn't get any storage. We headed to the storage place and they said they had someone just called and said that they moved their stuffs out from the storage. We had a huge hope on that one. We waited for about 30 minutes again because they need to check and make sure that the storage were really empty. Unfortunately, no. It wasn't empty. We left Andrew's number and told them to call us back if there's any open storage. We started to worry. Later that evening, they called and said they would have one on Monday morning. Without thinking, we said YES! A little happiness in there and we started packing. Andrew took a shower and his phone rang. I didn't pick it up for him because I was too lazy getting up from the bed =P When he finished showering he asked me if anyone called and I said yes. He said it's the storage people. He tried to call them back but the line was busy. We started to worry again. After 15 minutes of trying, we could get them on the phone. It turned out that they had one smaller storage available on that day! But....because we didn't pick up the phone, they gave it to someone else =( a little disappointment and regrets.. Well, at least we had a storage.

We started packing and cleaning up. I didn't get that much sleep and we had to wake up quite early on Sunday to pick up the UHaul. It was very crowded when we reached there. We were afraid that they would say they didn't have any trucks for us again. Fortunately, they did have one for us ready. We picked it up and headed back to our apartment. The fun part began..It was only 2 of us because all of our friends were either back in Indo or had to move out from their apartments as well. We had A LOT of stuffs. You could tell when you see the pictures below.

First thing we lifted was the sofa and we put the entertainment center on top of it. It was HEAVY! We continued by moving some other big stuffs that we couldn't take with cars. It took us 2 trips to complete and my storage was FULL! We couldn't put anymore stuffs in it and so we had to put our study chairs in friend's apartment. We helped someone else moving and it was even more tiring than ours because she lived in the 2nd floor. We returned the Uhaul and had a good lunch @ Nanking restaurant (used to be CiGar).

Heading back home, we had some rests before starting to clean up the bathroom and the kitchen. Those two places were really dirty. And when I said dirty, it really was. It took us forever to clean those two spots. We finished around 1am, took a shower and headed to bed. It was really nice to finally laid down on my bed.

I woke up @ 10.30am the next morning and our activity began with another day of packing, moving and cleaning up. Since we didn't have the truck for today, we had to drive back and forth to move our stuffs to the storage. We got the key from the storage office and started to move the boxes. It was really tiring and the boxes were HEAVY! When we were home, Andrew checked his email and it turned out that we needed to move out by noon the next day! We were freak out, afraid that we wouldn't have enough time to finish. Without any rests, we started moving stuffs again. We finished around 7.30pm. I switched my car back with Yenny's and we rewarded ourselves with COLD STONE! It's been a while since the last time I had cold stone. It tasted better than before (probably just because I was tired and hungry =P). After that we went back home and started cleaning the kitchen again. It didn't take us that long. We had showers afterwards and tried to get some sleeps because we needed to wake up early to finish up our cleaning and moving. I didn't get much sleep, probably only 2 hours of sleep.

I woke up at 7.30am and started packing up the rest of my stuffs. Andrew went to Walmart to buy tapes. I vacuumed my room and put my stuffs on the car. We had one last trip to the storage and ut the rest of our stuffs. We donated some of Sally's stuffs to Trinity outlet. We returned the keys to the office, went to Livesay office to give our rent checks for the new apartment, had a lunch, went to Insight to cancel the internet connection and finally drove back to Chicago!

I was really sleepy during the last 40 miles of driving. I stopped at one of the oasis and bought Starbucks. After I felt better, I continued driving. I picked up my laptop on the way back. People from ACP called me early this morning to let me know that they fixed my laptop. I was surprised they didn't give me a new adapter and replaced the system board and harness. It was really expensive! The parts itself cost $385 in total, not including labor (I think labor is another $100ish). Lucky I still have my warranty so I didn't have to pay for it. I asked them why they didn't give me a new adapter and they gave some explanations. I signed the paperworks and headed back home. I was happy to get my laptop back. I had lots and lots of works from EAS that I needed to finish. I tried my laptop first thing when I arrived at home. IT DIDN'T WORK! The adapter got even worse than before. I called them and they finally agreed to give me a new adapter. I have to pick it up either this Friday or next Monday. And I don't have to pay for the new adapter too =) I love Toshiba ^^

And now..here I am in my apartment. Trying to get some sleep but I think the Starbucks make me awake. I'm tired and sleepy, but I can't sleep..

Here are the pictures after the clean up..
Looks a lot nicer don't you think? =D
Well, got to go now..have to catch some sleeps..