I'm not sure if I can call it official since I still technically have my Houston apartment, but I now live in Tennessee. With my husband.

I'll just wait here while that sinks in.

After three weeks of packing (I move slowly), two days of loading the truck, and two days of driving, we're here. The kittens, poor dears, have been such troopers. During the packing, they enjoyed box city. So many places for mischievous kittens to hide. During moving day, however, they got locked in the bathroom and DID NOT LIKE IT. When we finally let them out, they had knocked over their food and water bowls, scattered litter everywhere, and torn up everything they could get their claws in to.

The driving was as tedious as it sounds, and I didn't even drive! August did. I'm not sure I could have handled that much driving with such a huge vehicle. The kittens hung out in their carrier in the seat between us. For the first two hours they were frantic. Then they calmed down and slept pretty much the whole day. That night, the hotel we picked to stay in didn't allow pets and had signs everywhere stating as much and warning us that the premises were video monitored (and they were). So we snuck them in James Bond style.

I am now convinced that they will NEVER sleep with us at night. Those little monsters made noise all. damn. night. Pouncing on toes, stampedes across the pillows, wrestling on the chairs. It's amazing how much noise they make =)

We arrived at around 8 last night and unpacked the kitten stuff and a tiny sliver of the boxes from the truck. August and one of his friends are going to do the rest at some point today. I'll help once I'm finished working (oh yeah! I'm supposed to be working right now...).

I have so much crap, I'm in awe, and a little afraid. It completely filled a 17 foot uhaul and my car. I'll probably do another purge now that we're here. I mean, our kitchen doesn't have any drawers!!

Anyhow, I'm here and all I can think is how much I want is some Taco C =)

6 comments:

aw. We snuck my cats into a hotel by wrapping the cage in a blanket. Then Nico jumped in the window and attracted the only outside cat around and started hissing and growling. ALL NIGHT. We ended up blocking the window off with a pyramid of pillows because we were sure they'd kick us out.

I miss Taco C too. How's Tennessee?

June 15, 2009 at 10:38 AM  

Ok, so we also wrapped the carrier in a blanket but it's a big carrier! We also scoped out all the cameras and strategically moved quickly and he kept his back to them. =)

Eclipse, the little one, wanted nothing more than to hang out in the window. Seriously, kitten?! We ended up putting bags on the window sill and curtains to keep her off. We also watched Batman (the movie) to try to drown out the squeaking and meowing =)

TN is rainy right now. I'm sitting in a coffee shop "working". In reality, I'm downloading the files I need from our server, something I should have done last week since this is taking going on 3 hours now!

June 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM  

So THAT'S why I'm allergic to hotel rooms.

:)

I look forward to hearing about your new home.

June 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM  

Felix used to attack our feet under the covers when he was a kitten. We locked him out at night, and then he clawed the HELL out of the bedroom door. Needless to say, we did not get the deposit back on that apartment, and now he does whatever he wants. :)

June 15, 2009 at 3:51 PM  

Yeah, Aaron, sorry about that! Although in our defense, the kittens are hypoallergenic.

The kittens are enjoying their own room. Eclipse has only tried to make a break for it once...

June 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM  

Oh, that's right! I forgot that you had superkittens from the year 3000.

June 16, 2009 at 9:58 PM  

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