So it has been quite a few days since I have updated my blog but we have been moving and we do not have internet! I never realized how much it would affect me not to have internet for a few days but it seems business is suddenly picking up right at the exact time we are moving and not only that because I am asleep half the time business is going on, emails go unanswered and I have a set of unhappy customers. I guess that is life. Now back to my here and now life!
The elevators are small here. Supposedly they fit 8 people but I have been in one with only 3 and it was a bit too personal for me but they are pretty great in my building. They have a nice full length mirror so I can check out how my outfit turned out before I step out of the building...it does have a negative though, can you imagine having an elevator full of people and have the full length mirror? It would look and begin to feel a little like there were that many more people in the tiny little space and it may become even more claustrophobic. Anyway, they do not seem to have service elevators to move all of your wonderfully large furniture so the poor moving guys had to take each and every piece of furniture apart.. Ok I say each and every but I guess it was really just the wardrobe but it had like 20 pieces to it and it is huge! It is over 6 feet long and takes up an entire wall of our "closet" room and yes, we have a "closet" room. It just makes good sense. We have a two bedroom apartment and if we had only one bedroom and tried to cram the wardrobe, dresser, bed and two night tables in there, we would not be able to open the doors to the wardrobe or the dresser and I imagine we wouldn't quite be able to get into the room either. Our "closet" room is great though. We have this huge wardrobe, our dresser, a full length mirror and ironing board and the ironing board never has to be put away or hidden because it's in the "closet" room! It is perfect.
Anyway, the move that was supposed to take about 2 hours, took about 4 and a half hours but we got everything we wanted. We really got lucky and I think someone must really like Soner because I'd be willing to be we got way more than most people AND all the living room furniture matches, all the bedroom furniture matches, everything matches. It is wonderful. Of course our hours and hours of cleaning the floors seem to have gone to waste though. The men bringing the furniture in had really dirty shoes and rolled all the stuff in on a cart with really dirty wheels and I swear I have vacuumed every single day and swifted the entire apartment 2 or 3 times and I am still finding my white slippers (that I washed yesterday and were sparkling clean again) lightly covered in a black dirt on the bottom. It is driving me a bit insane.
All in all, our moving day experience was pretty great and I ended up pretty tired. Soner went back to work after the movers left and I cleaned all the furniture. At one point I thought I was big and cool and could change the doors on the refridgerator to open on the other side. Guess what? I am not all cool and handy apparently. I unscrewed the top door at the top and bottom and reached down to do the bottom one and it isn't a screw! It's that hectagon thing and it was so tiny I didn't have a hope in the world of trying to get it off. So back together the fridge goes and right as I am nearing completion and I am beginning to feel proud again that I was able to sucessfully put it back together, the door slipped out of my hands, fell to the floor onto a bucket half full of soapy water and finally settling on the floor in a pool of water that covered the entire kitchen. Way to go Alicia! At least we know the kitchen floor is clean! Other than scrapping some rather thick chunks of skin off my hands while cleaning, the rest of the day of cleaning and moving went off without a hitch. At the end of day we had pizza on our new couch and watched NCIS in French then headed back to the hotel for our final nights stay.
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