And we're in...

We are officially residents of Creekside Park!

The move went reasonably well - we stayed at the house Thursday night on an air mattress as the movers were due between 8 and 10. We both took the day off.

I was out on one of my errands (more on that later) when they arrived so when I came back things were in full swing.

The system they had was great - all our stuff was in huge sealed crates, each of which had been loaded earlier by forklift with the opening lined up with one of the doors on the truck (this was a huge semi trailer with doors all along the sides). They would open up a crate and move everything from that crate into the garage. Then we'd check the boxes (or whatever) off the inventory list that was created when they loaded our gear in CA. Then we'd move inside and they'd put the boxes in the appropriate room.

We must not have been popular with them when we elected to have the entire lounge from CA put into the upstairs gameroom here. That's all the CDs and books, the sleeper couch and the massively heavy CRT TV that took 3 of us to carry it into our single storey house in Oakland!

While they did their thing, Macys turned up and dropped off the new bed, bedside cabinets, bench, couch and loveseat... they did a pretty shoddy job leaving us to finish off the installation of the hardware etc.

And the new TV arrived. I can't for the life of me remember the first guys name so I'll call him Bob. His helper was Jerome. They arrived and the conversation went something like:

Bob: Hey, my name is Bob - congratulations on the new house. We have your new TV.
Us: Thanks
Jerome: Hi, my name is Jerome. God bless you both, God bless you.
Us: Erm, thanks
Bob/Jerome install TV, everything works
Bob: Have a great day
Jerome: God bless you both, bless you. Have a blessed day. God bless.
Us: Bye

That is not an exageration - he really did bless us six times.

After all that, we still had no phone and no cable - they were due though. Comcast gave us a three hour window 2 through 5. AT&T gave us a window 8am through 8pm (nice!). The comcast guys called, lost. I have them directions. They called again, lost. We were having communication issues because me no hablo Espanol... so in the end I got in the car, drove around until I found them! Once they got to the house, everything went in ok and they left.

The phone company? They didn't even show up. And, conveniently, at 8pm they're closed so you can't even find out what happened!

In the end he turned up at 3pm on Saturday and installed it - all working fine now. Both the AT&T engineer and I were cursing Chesmar homes as they built the house in such a way that the installation involved the engineer being in the attic over the garage on a ladder trying to fish through a cable to me in the upstairs attic leaning over into the insulation holding onto a roof joist with one hand and grabbing for the cable with the other. Nice job Chesmar.

I won't mention the unpacking except to say that it is an almighty pain in the rear - I HATE unpacking more than I hated packing, my previous 'most hated' activity.

No photos yet - still haven't unpacked the cable for the camera.