The movers arrived with our things on Monday. I had packed a lot of my things myself and left the breakables, electronics, computer equipment and DD's room to the movers to pack.

Despite my instructions, the packer put things in boxes that were taken from other rooms. Since I had money to spare, they could have filled those boxes with extra paper. The few small items really didn't make a difference in the packing of the box. I still can't find my plug for the printer nor the paper tray. There is no reason it was packed for it to have been packed separately since this was the last box the movers packed.

I knew this place had a lot less storage than the house I came from but it's even less than I realized. My pantry in the other place was as large as the wall that holds the fridge and stove. And I have no island here which held all of my tall pots as well as my small appliances. Oh well! This house must be 40 years old and half of the kitchen cabinets are missing the 3rd (bottom) shelf. By that I mean that they sit higher from the counter than they need to and have only 2 shelves. I've unpacked most of the kitchen but am still looking for a necessary item. Perhaps it's in the box marked rotisserie which will have to sit on the laundry room counter.

I had a walk-in closet and now my closet is as big as the smaller rooms in the old place with 2 sliding doors. The bedroom closets here are half that size.

My biggest problems is the carpet in the bottom "family" room which my daughter is using as her bedroom. There were pet smells coming from it and the landlord had shampooed it before we moved in. The smells, though, are still there. After a discussion with the landlord, he's agreed not to wait until the summer to lay tile or laminate but to do it in a couple of weeks. The movers put all of her boxes in that room as well as others that I didn't have time to think about where they belonged. It's almost full of stuff. There is absolutely no place to put all of it while they do the floor so I really don't know how the people who lay the floor will deal with it. She hasn't unpacked her things because she thought it's easier to move boxes than dressers and cabinets filled with items.

I have to get back to unpacking. I'm planning on cooking my first supper here (an easy one) but I really need to clean off those counters. Then there's putting away the few boxes from the kitchen that I have no room for. Of course, the movers left boxes in front of the laundry room cabinets and I'll somehow have to move all of those to put away my excess kitchen items.

The other thing that really irks me is that I had organized and marked every box on the top and 2 sides that holds the books, CD's and DVD's. They somehow managed to stack these 5 high and made sure that my markings wouldn't show. So, I have to move all of these before I can even begin to unpack them.

I'm glad, though, that these packers didn't pack my whole house. I never would have found anything then.