Well it has been an interesting morning. The weather here today is grey on grey. It’s drizzling (better than sleeting or snowing, I know) and dark and I just want to go back to bed. Hubby has gotten home pretty late the last few nights because of his conference but thankfully today will be a normal night again although I think we’ll be hitting the hay early and can hopefully get through Thursday with no complications.
This morning hubby tried to reserve our moving van for Friday and Saturday…and thought he’d successfully accomplished that until the rental company called to say that they didn’t actually have one of those vehicles available for us. So he called another branch of that same company and they also had nothing for us. Apparently their website isn’t linked to their availability booking system so you can technically reserve anything you want but that doesn’t mean you’re going to get it in the end…sounds smart to me…or something.
So he ended up calling a competitor and surprisingly enough got a very competent guy on the phone who ended up getting us the truck for about half the price that we thought we would originally pay…which we certainly won’t argue with. Plus it’s actually more convenient for us to pick the truck up which is very good as well.
My call for the day was to Hornbach, one of our local home improvement stores, where we’ve ordered our shower. We were told (it’s even printed on the bill) that they should receive the shower by Dec 22, 2006. When I ordered the shower in the store, the guy even told me we should most likely get it earlier because of the holidays and we could expect it the week of the 17th. Awesome…or so we thought. So Christmas and New Year’s came and went and we still had no new information about the shower. I’ve talked to them once last week and got nothing new…so I called again this morning to see what was going on. They did actually receive shipments of showers today and yesterday…but not ours. Great. So I asked the guy what was going on since it’s printed on my receipt that it should have been received on Dec. 22. He started to get indignant and said according to his computer it was supposed to be the first week of January…but according to my calendar, that still makes it two weeks late. So the best he could tell me was we might get something else before Friday since most orders some in on Wednesday and Thursday so you can call back then. Right. He was less than encouraging about that and so I guess I will be pretty shocked if they call tomorrow to say it’s arrived. Whether or not they would still be able to deliver it this weekend he also wasn’t sure of…not how I wanted to start the day.
As you might notice, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment but there is honestly very little we can do ourselves to push things forward. I’m fairly certain Macky and the painters made some very good progress yesterday after I left and hopefully they will be really far along when I go back out there tomorrow. I think I just need some distance from it all at the moment. These past two days have felt like an entire week and I’m just feeling totally drained.
So I’m not going to the house today to check progress. I will instead take it relatively easy, go try to find some more decent packing boxes and hopefully pack up the majority of the things still around so at least that worry can be gone. And when I go to the house tomorrow, there will hopefully be tons of progress and perhaps even the first room or two will be ready to have things moved into it…and whatever they don’t finish – well, the house is going to be a work in progress for years to come so if we have to live in slight chaos for another week or two, so be it. All we really, really want is to have the rooms painted so we can move all the furniture and boxes to the rooms they actually belong in and not have to do a lot of shuffling later on. And as for the bathroom, we’ve been cutting it tight on that project for a while now. If the shower was here already and sitting at the farm, I would be very hopeful that they’d be able to finish it up…but with no shower, well I guess we’re just going to have to wait and see how things develop.
