U-Haul

Peeping out from between stacks of boxes to say hi.
"Hi!"
All is well here. Just a little, well, disorganized.
We moved a week ago Monday. Turned in the UHaul by midnight and everyone slept in a bed that night. I see why most people here hire movers--it is pretty brutal to move in and out of apartment buildings. Stairs, elevator, lobby, building steps, no legal parking places, no "staging" area that isn't also supposed to be something else. For a whole day our things were strewn all over the place. The building only allows moving between 2 and 5 on weekdays since you have to prop open the elevator door in order to really pack it full. There were a few things that needed to be taken down the stairs or taken apart in order to get them outside. Everything always takes longer than you think. And here you have to put signs on things you leave in the hallways or someone will assume it is free and just walk off with it!
But all that part is behind us now, and we have the comparatively easy part of unpacking the boxes. Our week has been busy though, so we haven't exactly done more than the bare minimum yet.
The new building is really nice and clean, there is a washer and dryer in our apartment and we LOVE having two bedrooms. The storage is good, the other tenants seem nice and I have to admit the scale of a 5 apartment unit is much more my style than the large building we were in before. I miss our old doorman and some of our old neighbors, and even though the subway is close here, it isn't right outside the front door like we used to have. The only real disadvantage here is the sketchy block we have to walk between the subway and our front door. Think Wonder Fried Chicken, Liquor Store and Hair Braiding. Sigh. I guess you can't have it all.
Now, if I could just find the umbrellas, the list of people coming on my field trip to the Whitney Museum next week and the silverware, life would be good.