Twenty-four hours later

After a full day of living "in the sky", I must say that it's quite enjoyable. The sunsets for up here... amazing. The girls have had a blast thus far. And I must say that mornings are going to rock in comparison to what we previously endured. Instead of driving 8 miles in heavy traffic to dropped the girls off at school, and then another 12 miles to work, it's just the 12 miles or so. We live very close to their school now, and it literally only took us 3 minutes to get there this morning. And then it's a straight shot on the highway to work, fifteen minutes total travel time. Wow. The greater irony is that, though I was technically fewer "air miles" from work previously, the route I took on the ground was still 11 miles, and so I'm not actually very much further from work now than I was before, perceptually.


So I spent two hours this evening disassembling and moving the girls' bunk beds from their mother's old house to the apartment. Whereas the girls previously shared a room at her house and had their own rooms at my house, they will now share a room at my new apartment while getting their own rooms at their mom's new house.

The problem with the bunk beds? It was installed originally by the furniture store. Who left no instructions. So now I have a hundred pieces of bed on the floor of the kids' room with no idea where to begin assembly. Ugh. This is going to take all week. Fortunately I bought futons, so the girls still have a place to sleep in the interim.