Move-in Meltdown

 I am moved in to the new place, but not Kevin!  He has to work on the Houston crew a little while longer, whereas my new job starts TOMORROW!  

It was impossible to move over the weekend with Saturday being the Fourth of July and Sunday being Sunday. 

Yesterday was Sunday the fifth, and not only did all of our old neighbors around my in-laws’ property decide to set off fireworks a day late, but both my mother and my mother in law decided that the day before I leave was the perfect day for both of them to express disapproval and disappointment at our decision to move to Austin. Each of them thought the other one was moving in with us!  Why!  

I decided to hold off on freaking out about their disapproval until after I signed the lease so I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. Then Kevin and I moved all my stuff into the apartment, he left for Houston area, and I went to Walmart. 

All of our appliances are black so I picked out black items for the apartment- bathroom decor, a dish rack, a new frying pan, kitchen towels and potholders etc. Then got all the toilet paper and paper towels. A broom and swiffer starter set, the Clorox toilet wand set, paper plates and bowls, etc. I got to the check out and the chip reader isn’t working. I’ve had this problem at Walmart before- the cashiers deal with it by swiping the card 3-4 times and then because of that, the card gets declined. You end up having to call the bank to say that’s really you and Walmart is being shady like that. 

The last time this happened, I was getting an oil change so I was stranded and had to walk to a bank to make a withdrawal with my identification and clear up the debit card. This time, I just had to be disappointed that I spent 2-4 hours in Walmart on moving day and got all this cute semi matching black stuff. I didn’t get any of it. I ended up going to Costco.  No cute black decor, and I had to get massive quantities of stuff like toilet paper and paper plates and ziplock bags. Sometimes I like getting massive quantities, but not after that Walmart fiasco. I am seriously never going to Walmart again. 

I really wish I could have had the weekend here to set up and shop more, but nope. I have to do onboarding the rest of the week from pretty much 9-5 and then start on the graveyard shift the following week. 

In between Walmart and Costco, I called Kevin and cried my ass off about both of our moms not liking that we moved here. He honest to God seriously doesn’t care what they think. I do!  I told him, you know what, when we got engaged and then married and NO ONE I KNOW had any problem with it, even though he’s more than a decade older than me and even though he’s was my supervisor- and even though no one has EVER been ok with the idea of me with any man at all, ever- still no one had anything to say about it. People just let me do what I wanted and that was CRAZY. At the time I asked my mother why so many people were ok with me getting married like this and she said something to the effect of, because I was older now and had “all these life experiences” (never mind of course that all those life experiences were also things most of them were against). Since then, I just assumed that a perk of being this old was that I got to do what I wanted. I’ve been wanting to move to Austin basically since 2020 or so. I just couldn’t because of my daughter. But now my daughter is in college in San Marcos and has also decided that she wants to settle here in the Austin area or the Texas hill country. There are other reasons too, which I’ll get into, but as soon as I brought it up to Kevin, he thought it was an AMAZING idea. 

He has been more pumped about it lately than me. I was even starting to get cold feet about it, but he’s excited for it. I’m trying to get as pumped about it as he is. Which is weird because it was my idea!  

It was a setback to disappointment both moms. Also, it must be said that two women in their 80’s should have learned to deal with change by now. 

I invited my mother up for my birthday on July 17th. She then actually mistook my birthday for the 10th and said she had plans. I asked her if she forgot when my birthday was, and she got more mad. Then I asked her who her hot date was with, and it was Armageddon. I thought, might as well, she’s already mad I’m moving. 

Two things about living in a blue city-

I only have one cat with me right now. The leasing agent referred to Jordan with they/them pronouns. I actually am not sure if she didn’t know that only one of the cats is with me or if she was doing that because she wasn’t sure the sex of the cat. 

He was in a carrier big enough for only one cat. I’m still not sure. 🤔