Moving and furnishing, day 1.

I spent today gathering everything I own and dumping it in the middle of the living room. My parents had offered to make a car trip to the new apartment after work, so my goal was to consolidate all of my belongings in one place before they got home. It was too much to fit into the car all at once, but we did manage to cram about half of my stuff in the trunk. Here's the view from the backseat:



From left to right - a bag of towels, a bag of knitting supplies, a bag of shoes, and a bag of extension cords. Somewhere underneath all that are two suitcases of clothes and all of my Ikea purchases. I guess that's what I consider to be the essentials.

The journey began with a watershed moment for the family vehicle, as my mom programmed my new address into the GPS system for the first time:



Unfortunately, the system seemed to struggle with Brooklyn geography - we ended up lost somewhere in Red Hook and had to navigate to the apartment using Mapquest directions from my mom's Blackberry. So a half hour trip became a one-hour trip, and we ended up circling the entire perimeter of the Greenwood Cemetary, but we made it to the apartment and unloaded the trunk.

My bed's getting delivered tomorrow sometime between 9am and 1pm, so I'm going to have to head back to the apartment pretty early (in the unlikely event that the delivery is actually on time). Since the rest of the family is heading out to the Hamptons around noon, my dad won't be able to drive the rest of my stuff to the apartment - but the things we brought over tonight are definitely enough to get me settled.

The checklist for tomorrow:

1) assemble bed
2) assemble desk and desk chair
3) unpack my random crap
4) meet my family in East Hampton

I think I can do that.