"You Got to Get That Out Before It Stains"

Jammie here...Ace gave me the password hahaha!  

So, the adventures began around 1700 hours on May 8, 2009 on a partly cloudy, slightly cool evening...  

The goal:  Move Parker into her apartment and Ace into the apartment off the Odd Couple before May 9th. 

The process:

May 8, 2009

1.  After two short trips to the tanning bed (yes, we both like skin cancer...we would have gone together because women tend to go to the tanning bed together the same as they go to the bathroom together, but I failed to get my office packed up quick enough)...we load up into my car and head to Parker's.  

2.  After hours and hours of driving through the wilderness, Parker calls and informs us that we're actually moving her from Canada.  Ok, it may have not been all the way to Canada, but it was pretty dang far out.  Five short hours and two trips later (yes, seriously five hours), we head to Ace's old place.  

3.  In one large adventure (envision Ace and Parker with a rather large futon mattress shoving it into the back of a Honda CRV, and Parker's boyfriend and myself lifting a rather large  [I mean...the size of a king size mattress large] bookshelf over the wheel well of a truck while slowly inching along the railing as to not fall off), we move the rest of Ace's stuff into the home of the Odd Couple.

4.  1:00 a.m.  Sleepy time (keep in mind that I usually go to bed between 9-10 p.m....this is not a good sign. :))

Goal Results:  Accomplished, a little later than anticipated, but accomplished none-the-less.

Quotable Quotes:

"You got to get that out before it stains" --Ace (in response to pizza grease dripping on my pants...I told her that unless spit and Dr. Pepper was going to help it, we had no hope)

"Holy cow, that'd be hot" --Ace (I have no idea why she said this, I text messaged all of these quotes to myself so that I could remember to include them...too bad I didn't include context for the quotes! :)  I do know that she quickly covered it up and said "Oh, oh, oh I meant to say that'd be cool!")

Also Interesting to Note:

1.  You should not attempt to force a futon open.  If Parker and Ace say that it won't work, you shouldn't work with Parker's boyfriend to pull it straight.  This is how things get broken.

2.  Jammie has absolutely ridiculous water pressure at her apartment.  This is important as it will appear in a later blog.

3.  Ace has lived in the apartment for less than 24 hours and has already mastered selective hearing.  (After Jammie, the extrovert, excitedly proclaimed the list of all of the things she did in the morning, Ace appeared to have listened.  Later on, when Jammie referenced an earlier comment in her very very important sequence of events, Ace had no recollection.  Jammie is thinking of investigating counseling already as it's hard to hold back the tears even now as she types this).