The first two days in the new house have not gone especially smoothly. Evelyn has moved away from her awesome sleeping schedule of waking once or zero times at night back to the two or three (or four) wakings she was doing a while ago. I'm sure it is the craziness of moving and being in a new place. We haven't quite figured out the temperature regulation in her room yet either so she is usually pretty warm. But hopefully she'll get back in a nice sleeping rhythm again soon. She has also been little miss crankypants, which is just draining. She will no longer play by herself for even a few minutes. You put her down and she gets upset. You leave her alone for a few minutes and the screaming starts. Exhausting.
Then yesterday I awoke to find it had snowed like 5 inches unexpectedly and I had to go to work. The roads were so bad that I got half-way there and decided to turn around. I had visions of Jon and Evelyn being stuck in the house with no food, or even worse, venturing out to get food and getting stuck in the snow. So I stopped at Safeway, got a few things, and went home, slipping and sliding along the way. I was able to steal someone's wireless long enough to attend a staff meeting, but other than that I wasn't able to work. C'est la vie. I was able to unpack a few more things.
Oh and it gets better. This morning I couldn't start my car! Or, to be more specific, I couldn't turn the key in the ignition. It has been sticking a little but has gotten significantly worse over the past week. Today I just couldn't get it to turn. So Jon's mom let me drive her car to work because Jon had run to our old house because he forgot to bring the cable box home, and the cable guy is coming at 8am today to set up the TV and internet. It took me 40 minutes to get to work, even though I estimate it should only take 15, because of contruction on the main road I took. Yeah, I need a new route. But that is easy to fix. Today is just going to be crazy. As soon as the internet is set up I have to go back home, swap cars with my mother-in-law, help Jon take my car to the shop to get the ignition thingy fixed (oh yay), and then work from home this afternoon and probably tomorrow. My grandparents will also be there doing something to the garage so it will be a lovely full house. Not to mention we still need to go shopping for a couch, the number of unpacked boxes seems to multiply every day, and that our lease in the old place isn't up until APRIL instead of FEBRUARY, the stress is piling up. (Our old landlord has agreed to release us from our lease as soon as she can rent the apartment, but still...if she can't rent it, we're on the hook.) And for some reason my new phone stopped ringing or making noises for anything and I can't figure out why.
The stress of this quickie move and all the things unrelated to it that have happened in the past few days are getting to be overwhelming. I haven't slept well since Friday night and with everything going on I'm just exhausted. So is Jon. But we really like the new house. The space, the storage, the lay-out, the light, the openness, the all-mine washer and dryer. But until things get settled, it is going to be hard to relax.
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