A Long Month [Man and Bits of Paper]

The move was successful. The last couple of days before it were pretty stressful, although I didn't quite realize that until our flight out to LA. I spent the next couple of days sleeping twelve or thirteen hours a day.

Rigel's family in LA is pretty extensive, and also Mexican, so the holidays were one family gathering after another- I'm sure we managed to have every combination and permutation possible of branches from the family tree. Her family likes me pretty well- I think I'm the latest in a long line of helpful gringos. Or something like that.

The last week we finally started work on the condo. I might have spoken of it before. Maybe not. It... it is a mess. It was a mess. Rigel's dad and his uncle put two solid weeks of ten hour days in clearing it out of trash and creepy moldy things, although there was still mold on nearly every surface. The past few days we've boxed nearly every remaining thing, Goodwill'd a lot of it, thrown out the really moldy stuff. We've cleaned nearly all of the furniture left, and for the past couple of days we've been painting.

Things left to do-

resurface the tile in the hallway, alcove, and kitchen
replace the refrigerator and dish washer
paint the bedroom, the bathroom, and the front alcove
replace the carpet in the living room and bedroom
fix a few different things (a kitchen drawer or two need to be restapled, the cabinets might need new handles)

All that time furniture and boxes need to be shuffled around, which is frustrating and time consuming.

It's going to be a long couple of weeks.