Mike Needs a Life Blog Reposts – Part 19
JUNE 8, 2009
She’s left me behind with the mess!
Phew. Christina got out, and I was there alone… with the mess. Holy crap, how was this all going to finish getting packed and cleaned in just two days.. I decided to just start with one room, finish it, close the door and move on. It worked pretty well, I got the entire back of the house cleaned and all the remaining crap in them moved into the living room by 6:00 or so. Jeff Blossey came over and we proceeded to get blind stinking drunk… good times, I definitely needed that. What I didn’t need was the humongous hangover I had the next day, I had so much to do, and all I wanted to do was crawl in a hole and die.. I guess some people never learn. I persevered though, got the shed cleaned out, sorted the tools, left a few for the renters just in case, and the shed was done.
Monday night I went out to dinner at PR’s with Casey, Dave, and Sean. We had alot of beers, and some good mexi food. Of course Casey drug me across the street to Fiddler’s Green after that for more beer, and a long island iced tea.. damn him.. he’s a bad influence.
By Tuesday afternoon, I had gotten just about everything packed and cleaned.. we went to pick up the truck, and loaded just about everything but the mattress so I could sleep on it. Had a few friends over that last night, that was nice, we stood around in the kitchen drinking firefly vodka and lemonade.. good stuff..
Wednesday morning we loaded the mattress and did a final cleaning, and we were off! I stopped at the Walgreens by my house to pick up a prescription, and noticed I had a flat on the rear outside tire… GODDAMNIT! I guess I had taken that first curve out of my neighborhood too sharp and ripped a hole in the sidewall. Of all the luck. So a half an hour on the phone with roadside assistance, and they had me driving the truck to goodyear on 50 to get a new tire.. 2 hours later we were back on the road!
The drive went surprisingly well, traffic in the middle of the week is pretty light so it took us only 7 hours to make it to the new apartment. Driving a 16 foot moving van through old town in key west is a pretty hairy experience, especially when the headlights don’t work.. I wondered why it was so dark. Of course I didn’t know they didn’t work until we went to return the truck that night to the local Budget rental place.. which it turned out was no longer right up the road on Key West, but in the next friggin key up.. Luckily Josh and Christina handled taking the truck back.. haha. Someone should tell Budget that their web page is wrong…
It took us about an hour to unload, Josh and Christina took the truck back, and I put the bed together. By the time they got back, I was done.. in more ways than one.. we passed out quite quickly that night, no time for merriment. At least all the worst parts were done.