Man! Moving sucks. The past two days has been spent moving all the small crap out of the old place and into the new. Holly has been awesome unpacking stuff as I bring it in. If she had been working or something, the house would be packed to the ceiling right now. Instead, there are only a few boxes around, and we can properly relax tonight with a movie and a beer.

Tomorrow will be cleaning day for the old place. Pack up the garbage and scrub everything down. That will be the end of it. So sad. That house will be very much missed.

We spent the day in the “big town” yesterday. The main goals were to cancel Holly’s cell phone, finish filing for unemployment, and pick up a few groceries. Mind you the word “few” should be stressed, but I don’t know how to do that on an iPhone. Oh well. Just imagine it.

Anyway, the trip was way too easy. We went first to the phone store who told us they don’t handle cancelations and that we had to call an 800 number, which she wrote down for us. We quickly stepped outside, parked our fannies on a bench and Holly quickly dialed the number. All the while she let me know that she did not want to be calling. Only because she hates phones though.

After a few minutes of weaving her way through the computerized system and a few more of talking to a rep, the deed was done. She found out that her contract had been up for a year already, which meant that all the fuss over not paying the cancelations fee because we live in the dead zone was for nothing. Good to be prepared anyway.

After that, we headed to the dreaded unemployment office. Boring. We waited for about 45 minutes before I was called in. It took all of 5 minutes to confirm the information I gave when I first applied. Then she gave me a few instructions and sent me over to Workforce where, again, it took only a few minutes to confirm the info already given.

All in all, it went very smoothly and gave us plenty of time to buy what few things we could. That trip to town will make things so much easier. Phew.

Now we just need to finish moving.

Well. This is going to be a busy week. We’ve found a new place to live and we have 5 days to move in. Tomorrow we start hauling stuff over there. We’ll move as much as we can to get a good start. Thursday we have to go up to town so I can hit the unemployment office and Holly can take care of her phone stuff. We could also do with some things from the store. You know, like bread, flour, milk and eggs. That sort of stuff.

Friday will be another big moving day. Hopefully at this point we’ll be able to move all the last things like couches, beds, dressers, cats, etc. If not, at least we’ll have some of Sunday. You think we’d be able to do it a little faster seeing as how we seem to have experience with this sort of thing.

The weekend will be our finish up and clean up days. The power and cable are all scheduled. We’ll just have the cats left. That will be the last thing. Then we’ll be all moved. And Gavin missed all of it. Lucky kid.

Summer is setting in. Before shipping the boy off island, we took a beach day. The weekend was beautiful. The sun was out. It was even hot and sunny. So the beach was the place to be. Gavin swam and played with friends while Leif ran around digging and just being himself.

We didn’t stat super long though. We ditched out and went home to continue sunbathing in our back yard. We filled a kiddy pool up for the kids and laid out under the sun drinking cocktails and watching the clouds pass overhead. ‘Twas a great day.

Now the boy is gone. At least for a few weeks. So what shall we do? Well, back to the beach. Just because Gavin isn’t here doesn’t mean I can’t burn myself.

We went for a walk today. Just to get out of the house. On the way we picked up a few lilikois. They seem to be starting to go off. I also stopped on the way back to pick up some bananas. We found a nice bunch.

You know what else summer means? I get to brew summer beer. It means lots of fresh fruit and cold ice cream. Not to mention a new season of many good shows. Summers are so awesome.