First Huge Load Up

A 16 foot box truck with lift gate left here close to 12:30PM and headed to our storage unit in Carson City.  In a twist of fate, the issue with H. needing a note for work ended up being a good thing because he was able to go with J. and our friend R. .  There were some pretty large, heavy items in the load - the BowFlex being the bulkiest - and without H., I would be worried that J. and or R. would overdo and/or injure themselves.

We were fully prepared to rent another unit upon arrival but they managed to get everything in - which is great!  We might rent a much smaller unit where we can store things we might want to get to before the house is ready when we're living in temp housing.

The garage is the emptiest it's been in ages and I plan to get up pretty early tomorrow and work away in there.  Consolidating boxes, sweeping floors, making lists of things to do next.

The living room is packed with items from upstairs that we aren't planning to keep - so on the list of things to do will be setting up a Salvation Army pickup.

There's still lots of large items to go but we'll most likely do those items in a POD when we're ready to vacate the house.

H. was able to get a note on Sunday - we found a clinic that accepted Medicaid.  H. said he explained to the doctor what happened; that he was completely fine but needed a note or he wasn't going to be allowed to return to work - the doctor said 'that's ridiculous' and H. said "I am very sorry to take up your time".  But the doctor said 'I'm paid by the hour so no issue' - and wrote him a note.  Nothing out of pocket - Medicaid covered the office visit.  In some ways, we're doubly relieved because we weren't sure where H. could go in the event he was sick or injured - and now we know.  The staff at the clinic was super nice, H. liked the doctor and now we have options.  One worry off the list. 

Now the only 'risk' is that he'll take the note in tomorrow afternoon and the boss will question why he didn't bring it in on Monday.  And H. will reply 'I wasn't on the schedule for the week - so I helped my parents with getting a load of stuff up to their new town'.  Should be OK but....his boss is mercurial to say the least.

The house is super quiet and I'm super tired.  Set my alarm for 5:20AM this morning and when 8PM gets here, I am heading up for the night.  Chloe is worried about 'where's Dad?'.  But she's doing OK.  I'll get her settled for the night and plan to be up early tomorrow as well - though not quite that early. 

B. didn't work on his room as much as we'd hoped, leaving a ton of stuff for us to do.  The cleaning crew comes tomorrow and B.'s room is just closed off - they can skip it -

I see a couple things we sort of forgot to include but then the truck was also very full so it wouldn't have held more anyway.  We will probably rent it again - the lift gate made it so easy to get heavy things loaded - still a lot of brute strength required but not nearly as much as sans gate. 

Upon arrival to the casino, the guys will be surprised they are in a Concierge Tower room.  J. knows but we kept it a surprise.  It's a much bigger room - lots of amenities.  They'll have a great buffet dinner, enjoy some entertainment and get a great night's sleep - and head back down the hill tomorrow bright and early.

We can truly never thank our friend R. enough - he is such a kind-hearted, giving person and is always so willing to help - he's a gem.