minor couch hiccup but…WE’RE HERE!!!

holy mother of god it’s good to finally be settled in…it wasn’t exactly a walk in the park either…

 Let me share with you a little story about two girls, a large sofa bed and a small doorway.

 So Jenn and I arrived at the apartment last night to drop off a bunch of our things. We weren’t going to start putting away stuff because we weren’t going to be sleeping there yet. We were going to move some furniture eventually though and knew we wanted to move one of the pull out couches from one bedroom into another because, well, one of them is snarsty. So, feeling super pro-active and willing to do some heavy lifting at the time, we proceed to move the snarsty huge pull out couch out of one of the bedrooms and bring it down the hallway.

Getting it out of the room was a challenge to begin with because we needed to put it vertically on its side to get it out of the door. Also, once we had the couch in this position, gravity kept pulling the bed out making it even more impossible to move. So after nearly crushing Jenn with the bed we get it out of the doorway and start making our way down the hallway taking out chunks of paint on the way, chipping the molding, etc. Not good.

 We get the mammouth piece of furniture three quarters of the way down the hallway when we realize, in agony, that we will not be able to squeeze this god forsaken couch past the radiator. There may have been some cursing at this point. Mostly from me because I find it necessary to scream at inanimate objects.

 This is when we decided to head back the way we came from; taking out more chunks of molding, scraping the walls, leaving wheel marks…super nice.  We get the darn thing in the doorway it came from and GET THE FREAKIN THING STUCK. And I don’t mean lightly nudged stuck I mean go get the crow bar or we’re gonna have to take off the door frame stuck.

At this point in the evening it’s about 12:30am, we’re exhausted, I’m cranky and we have to wake up for work in six hours. So we abandon the couch. We figure we can still get into the room from another doorway and can move around the couch so no problem. It can be dealt with at another time.

Well, we make our way into the kitchen and find a note on the fridge from the landlord letting all of the tenants know she will be showing all of the apartments during the week because it’s up for sale. We check the date when she’s coming to our apt and SURPRISE she’s coming the day after next. We freak out and realize that not only do we have a couch lodged in a doorway, we destroyed the walls and molding in the hallway.

After a tiny bit of panic, we realize we’ll have to get help the next day. Thank GOD my aunt is fantastic at getting out of crappy situations because I filled her in with our little problem and when she dropped us off at the apartment tonight we had the couch back where it came from in less than a half hour. We did have to take off the door, two wheels and a wooden peg but we got the stupid thing in there. UGH. Talk about a pain in the ass.

I guess this can go in the ”stupidest decisions ever made” file, eh?

Now all we have to do is unpack our lives and um, get to the bus tomorrow? Lol.