all moved in
Dec. 9th, 2012 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI have moved a lot over the years, and as a result have managed to keep the pile of my stuff down to a reasonable size (when I moved to Sweden I initially brought only what fit in my luggage for the flight, and then everything else followed later, and it all fit into one rental van. As a result of not having way too much stuff it is normal for me to get everything completely unpacked and put away within two weeks of moving into a new place. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar, on the other hand, had been living in the same apartment for five or so years, and the same town for about ten years, so the amount of stuff he had accumulated was significantly larger than my pile.
Add to that information that normally I have been a student with oodles of free time and now I have a "real job" and too much to do at work to take more than a couple of days off for moving and it is easy to understand why it took a month this time to get everything unpacked. As I type this it has been 34 days since we got the keys to our house, and 30 days since we moved the stuff over from the apartment. While most of the stuff was unpacked and put away straight away, some of the stuff has had to wait till we had time to build places for it. We finished the new frame for the paperback shelves on Thursday and the shelf for the projector on Friday, which is also the day we unpacked the paperback books and finished hooking up the computer and projector to the stereo equipment. Those two projects accomplished and we can now claim to be completely moved in.
And just on time too, since we had the housewarming party yesterday (Saturday). I did take the day off of work on Friday to cook for the party. I made two pies (one sweet, one savory), two (Huge!) loaves of bread (one to turn into a Smörgåstårta, the other turned into a cinnamon braid coil), two salads, and two batches of cookies (one gluten free). In addition to all that I had baked a blueberry cake on Thursday, and I pulled some other baked goods I had made earlier out of the freezer, and I made a fruit salad on Saturday morning.
When I put it all out at the start of the party it completely filled the table (and it was hard to find space in the fridge for everything before it was put out). I had no idea how many (if any) people would come to the party, but I knew that I would need food, and I like feeding others...
Part of the reason for not knowing how many people would attend is that December is a busy time--most of the people we invited had multiple invites for Saturday. Some of them stopped by on their way somewhere else, others popped in after attending other things. We generally had about six to eight people here at a time, but over the course of the day we had a total of 25 guests:lord_kjar's brother and his wife, two of our neighbors, two friends from choir, six friends from dance, one of my work colleagues (plus her wife and their son), five of our gaming friends, and five of our SCA friends. (note that the tally includes people who could have been counted in more than one category, but I just picked one category for them on this occasion in order to get an accurate total).
Three of them were still here in the evening, so we turned on the sauna and finished up the party with relaxation, and we managed to get to bed before midnight (first time in ages, since we have been working on getting the house ready well into the night. It is good that there were only the five us us left at that point, since our sauna seats only six.
Today we will spend the full day in town for choir--our choir is joining some other choirs for a group performance in the church in town. We will have a set on our own, each of the others will have sets of their own, and there will be some songs sung by all of us together. Then an hour or so later we do it all a second time. Add to that the practice session before hand, and it will eat the whole day. Luckily, we have plenty of left over food to take with us!
lord_kjar, on the other hand, had been living in the same apartment for five or so years, and the same town for about ten years, so the amount of stuff he had accumulated was significantly larger than my pile. Add to that information that normally I have been a student with oodles of free time and now I have a "real job" and too much to do at work to take more than a couple of days off for moving and it is easy to understand why it took a month this time to get everything unpacked. As I type this it has been 34 days since we got the keys to our house, and 30 days since we moved the stuff over from the apartment. While most of the stuff was unpacked and put away straight away, some of the stuff has had to wait till we had time to build places for it. We finished the new frame for the paperback shelves on Thursday and the shelf for the projector on Friday, which is also the day we unpacked the paperback books and finished hooking up the computer and projector to the stereo equipment. Those two projects accomplished and we can now claim to be completely moved in.
And just on time too, since we had the housewarming party yesterday (Saturday). I did take the day off of work on Friday to cook for the party. I made two pies (one sweet, one savory), two (Huge!) loaves of bread (one to turn into a Smörgåstårta, the other turned into a cinnamon braid coil), two salads, and two batches of cookies (one gluten free). In addition to all that I had baked a blueberry cake on Thursday, and I pulled some other baked goods I had made earlier out of the freezer, and I made a fruit salad on Saturday morning.
When I put it all out at the start of the party it completely filled the table (and it was hard to find space in the fridge for everything before it was put out). I had no idea how many (if any) people would come to the party, but I knew that I would need food, and I like feeding others...
Part of the reason for not knowing how many people would attend is that December is a busy time--most of the people we invited had multiple invites for Saturday. Some of them stopped by on their way somewhere else, others popped in after attending other things. We generally had about six to eight people here at a time, but over the course of the day we had a total of 25 guests:
lord_kjar's brother and his wife, two of our neighbors, two friends from choir, six friends from dance, one of my work colleagues (plus her wife and their son), five of our gaming friends, and five of our SCA friends. (note that the tally includes people who could have been counted in more than one category, but I just picked one category for them on this occasion in order to get an accurate total).Three of them were still here in the evening, so we turned on the sauna and finished up the party with relaxation, and we managed to get to bed before midnight (first time in ages, since we have been working on getting the house ready well into the night. It is good that there were only the five us us left at that point, since our sauna seats only six.
Today we will spend the full day in town for choir--our choir is joining some other choirs for a group performance in the church in town. We will have a set on our own, each of the others will have sets of their own, and there will be some songs sung by all of us together. Then an hour or so later we do it all a second time. Add to that the practice session before hand, and it will eat the whole day. Luckily, we have plenty of left over food to take with us!
