...'cause it's movin' week! I'm taking Thursday and Friday off this week because on Thursday we move (we're hiring people to move our stuff this time). We've got painters and stuff coming as well, to start some of the work on the new place.
Marc and I are still packing - we have an enormous amount of crap. At some point, a trip to the dump is going to be necessary. My mom is also planning on doing a garage sale, so we can probably get rid of some other stuff then.
Everything is getting moved to the new house on Thursday, except for the fish tank, which will get moved on Saturday. That is not a chore I'm looking forward to. It will require waking up very early, draining all the water into big trash cans, pulling out all the rock, and catching all the fish, shrimp, crabs, and snails. Then I have to tear down the tank, and we have to move it all to the new house, and then I have to set it all back up again, get the fish in a temporary tank until the actual tank settles back down again, and then move everything back in.
Like I said, not looking forward to it.
Most of our weekend was spent packing - we did go see The Omen on Friday night with Leslie. I mostly went for Marc, because I didn't really have a pressing need to see a remake of that film. It gives me the willies. Sunday we had dim sum with my family for Father's Day.
Nothing much else going on, other than the fact that my fax machine has been trying to fax my name change request form to PayPal for the last hour and is getting constant busy signals (yes, I know, it's been like 2 years since I changed my name, but to be fair, I did try to do it like a year ago, and had fax problems then). Stupid PayPal.
Whoa, the fish tank move sounds harder than your move! Do you have to keep the water the big trash cans to put it back into the tank after the move?
Do you have any pics of your new house? :) :) :)
Yeah, I'm going to need to make about 60 gallons of new water, and then try to save most of the 70 gallons from the tank. This will all get mixed so that some new and old water will go back in the tank after the move, and the rest will go in the holding tank for the fish.
The problem is, when moving and putting the water back in the tank, the sand is going to get all stirred up, which means potentially lots of nasty stuff in the water. It's going to take a day or two to let that stuff get filtered out before I can put the fish back in, so that's why they need a holding tank.
Will be taking lots of pics of the house when we move!