The Heusens

Today, our movers arrived from California with all our stuff. Everything made it, although a few pieces of furniture were scratched. It's unlikely that we'll get any money back for it, though, even though IU paid for full-replacement insurance. Grrr. It made me really mad when we discovered that the packers basically marked all of our furniture (and all sides of it) as having scratches and damage--which it clearly did not--that way, they can always say the damage was pre-existing if anyone tries to make a claim. Grr.

So, a word to the wise: take a lesson from me and review all the little side notes about your furniture (and the movers' bizarre coding structure) when you move! For example, how was I supposed to know that a note reading "L1R2RU3" actually means something like "your entire piece of furniture is covered in scratches"?

All the furniture fit into the garage/storage area of our sublet (which my colleague Nicole was sweet enough to clear out), and there was a second successful drop-off at my office, where we unloaded all my IKEA furniture and infinite file folders.

Here are three signs we're enjoying our new home:

1. Walk-in shower! Holla!


2. We seem to be very comfortable doing things like opening dresser drawers (not ours) and picking out (throwing out) pajamas:


3. Espresso machine. We're in business baby.

Posted by Ashlyn on Monday, June 8, 2009 at 8:44 PM | Permalink