shipment day!

I wrote this post over a month ago...but never published it.  I have this problem where I overanalyze it, read it too much, and then I get really sick of it.  So here it is.  If I'm going to be a decent blogger I'm going to have to get over this.

Sometime near the end of October...

Our shipment came...hooray!  Well, 90% of it. Moving day was such a crazy busy day.  Our rental furniture company came to get all of our spartan furniture an hour late, and our movers came an hour early (unheard of here!) so we had both companies working on top of each other for a while.  The movers were working so fast that by lunch time most of the 1 1/2 containers were unpacked.  We went out for lunch to our favorite spot right across the street (Villa D'Marco) and all Ryan could think about was what was still missing. As we drove past the open end of the moving truck we had looked inside and it didn't seem like there was much left, but we were still missing some major pieces.  Turns out his hunch was right.  Somehow in Phoenix the guy loading our shipment left out two whole crates which unfortunately held some very important items.  

Here's the laundry list of items that didn't make it: 3 sides of Lucy's crib, Lucy's headboard, the guest bed headboard, the master bed footboard, the frame of our family room sectional (we got the cushions though), the cushions for the living room couch (we got the frame though), half of the loft sectional, both living room side chairs, and a few other less important things.  

Items that did make it: a bag of In-n-Out burger trash, a sullied pair of little boy underwear that must have been shoved somewhere (I have a hunch from whom & where) and a mostly eaten, rancid bag of Nana's Tortilla Chips.  The In-n-Out trash & the Nana's chips made me a little homesick, the undies just made me a little sick.

Needless to say I was very frustrated.  Ryan got on the phone and took his power stance (When he's ready to get serious he holds the phone with his left hand and tucks his right hand into his left armpit.  Then he usually bites his pinky fingernail, but he gave up nail biting when we moved here - cold turkey.)  I've seen him take the power stance time and time again - even when we are driving.  He just gets his knee up there to help out at the steering wheel.  Anyway, that always does the trick.  So after some "negotiation" (that's a nice way of saying he ripped them a new one - so crude when I see it in type) the moving company agreed to air ship all of our lost (but now found) items.  So the good news is we can put our couches and beds together sooner than 3-4 months from now.  The bad news is it'll still be a month at least.

This is what we've been living in for 3 months:

And here's what we were living in for a week while we painstakingly put all of our things in their new places:

Somehow in the midst of all of it Lucy found a place to take her much-loved nap.

Even though we had some serious setbacks, it is so nice to have our things here.  Everyone has a mattress to sleep on and I've made a "franken-couch" out of the parts we did receive so things are comfortable. It really feels like home now and I've had a lot of fun getting the house just like I want it.  It also really helps to have Lana helping out everyday...so grateful for her.