Moving Out

Things were clearly going too easily yesterday so today we got a few wrinkles thrown at us. Last night, we checked into the Windmill Inn, a little hotel right down the street. Dad went out, picked up some KFC, and everything was grand...and then my right foot started absolutely killing me. It's a weird pain that I've had off and on for a while (before the knee injury), most often after being on my feet at work for a while. So how does it possibly crop up now? Who knows. And like an idiot, I forgot to bring my pain pills with me last night so I just had to deal with it. Throw in the extra-mushy, very small bed and the end result is that I got maybe two or three hours of sleep if I'm lucky.

I came back to the apartment at around 7:30 this morning and the movers arrived shortly after that. Until today they thought that our stuff would be the only load on the truck, meaning that we'd get to unload in Little Rock on Friday or Saturday, which would be perfect. But today they just found out that they need to pick up another load in Glendale tomorrow and then drop it off in Oklahoma before ours, meaning that now our stuff is scheduled to arrive on Monday. It's not a huge deal but it's definitely an inconvenience, as it guarantees that I'm looking at spending the whole weekend at the in-laws' place in Little Rock, plus I have to get someone (probably Dad, again) to help supervise the unloading on Monday. Have I mentioned that I still haven't even seen where I'm going to live, aside from a few digital pictures?

Dad went to uHaul and picked up the tow dolly early this morning with no problems. He got the Focus rigged up very nicely...and then promptly managed to lock the keys inside the car. I think the confusion came through having two sets of Ford keys that look almost identical, or at least that's his story. So now he's off to the dealership to pick up an extra key before we hit the road, which is fine. He needed something to keep him busy today anyway.

If all goes well, it looks like we should be on the road some time this afternoon. I don't know exactly when, or how far we'll get today, or even where we plan to stop for the night. But the move really will have begun.