Back in Time

[captainsblog]

I still owe a day-four trip post here, and at least two to the Met blog, but now that I'm sure the TARDIS will be available a week from today! Yay!, I think I'll skip ahead to the past two days of fun and frolic. It's all done; it's all good.

Emily's moving day was yesterday (the 24th), but she'd arranged to help another RIT college friend with her move the day before. So she loaded up Mom's truck with some of her own stuff and headed off for the day. I, meanwhile, had a morning court appearance in Buffalo, a 3 p.m. real estate closing in Rochester, and about three seconds to breathe in between. The morning was unsuccessful but was at least relatively brief; the closing ate my brain, the rest of my day, and much of my ensuing sleep-short night.

Client wasn't at his office to meet before the closing, and he didn't get to it until close to 4 p.m. The figures were wrong, several key documents looked like they'd come off a 1983 dot-matrix printer, and worst of all, the buyer was now buyers. His wife had decided to join the party at the last minute...

And, as of everything I knew as of about 5:30 that night, she had not signed a mortgage providing most of the net cash to my client.

This, trust me, is a sure cure for narcolepsy. Despite all that, and all the Happy Moving Joy lying ahead, I stared at ceilings and cats for much of the night.

I did all the right things- notified the lawyer for the buyerS, had the title company hold the recording, and sacrificed several random virgins to Cthulhu. And it worked; buyerS caught it before they left, signed it right and it got recorded right before 2:00 yesterday.

I slept much better last night.

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And then the move. Most of the drama was done before we even left, resulting from confusion about where the UHaul pickup place was, but before 10 a.m., there we were- toting a 12 foot high atomic spider to Rochester:

Sorry about the thumb. From there, bless us, everything just hummed. The stuff at home filled barely half the truck, and by 1, we were at her storage space with the UHaul and three (ultimately four) trailing vehicles never once having gotten lost or separated.

The locker was higgeldy-piggeldy with three other kids' stuff, but many hands made light work and we left for the apartment...

where, this time, the convoy briefly broke up. Em called, I talked her through the panic as their friend Tony and I waited calmly in my car and the UHaul on the 490 shoulder, and we were back together within minutes and at the new place by mid-afternoon. Eleanor arrived just as I was done with some work erranding; she'd had her first appointment with a new doctor earlier, then finished up sewing curtains for the new place.

Truck returned, on time and on budget; pizza and wine acquired for the first dinner, and I heard Em happy-sigh and say to Cam, "We have a home!"

Worth every moment of the getting there.

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Eleanor was out ass-early for her usual Saturday gig today. I slept past 9 for the first time in recent memory, have majorly fixed our family mobile account (gods help us we all have unlimited texting now), and am awaiting Saturday work mail before making a bank run.

Vacation is over. But these two days and what will grow from them? Just as nice:)

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Comments

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

So happy for your kiddo. :)

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the TARDIS will be available a week from today! Yay!

Don't forget about Pond Life, the webseries that covers Amy & Rory's lives before Asylum of the Daleks-- hopefully that'll make a certain plot point from AotD seem not to come from nowhere.

Congrats to Em-- the first non-halls home is always special. :)

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

And you know this from having SEEN the bloody thing, yes? #jealous

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was at the BFI premiere last week. Great ep! (& great Q&A, with a running gag of no one being able to remember Arthur Darvill's name). We all had to promise Steven Moffatt that we wouldn't spoil it, though. :)