Moving out

What a day! It’s over – that’s the best I can say about today. I woke up quite early – so did the guys! They knocked on my door at seven already, so I had to put mippies into their carriers. Ziva and Lady Jane took it in their stride – well, after I dosed them all with CalmEze again. But Mewthos? He went absolutely ballistic!

He had no problem with the carrier, as such – but carrier means being carried to the vet … and that wasn’t happening, so what nightmare is this? Rose came up early as well, by that time I had already taken Ziva out of the large carrier and put her in mine on her own. She just curled up and napped. Poor Lady Jane was sharing with Mewthos and he really went nuts! He did cartwheels in the carrier, clawed Rose, rolled onto Lady Jane, scratched the flooring … just went nuts. When I finally had a chance – the two workers had arrived, I had to sort this that and the other while the mips were in their carriers and Mewthos was performing his worst act ever – eventually, when I had time, I took him out and held him in my lap. And dosed him again and again and again with CalmEze. Finally, finally he calmed down!

Then Move-A-Pet arrived and I just had to take a break and get my marbles back. Rose and I had a coffee, then Rose had to go.

I packed, the guys carried everything out and loaded the truck. When everything was out, I started cleaning. There’s a patch on the bedroom wall, behind my furniture, where the paint is coming off in great big flakes! The wall behind it is completely damp!

I cleaned, and cleaned and packed and cleaned some more. I cleaned a lot of mippie paw prints off walls! I washed the floors in the laundry corner and the kitchen. I washed the windows. I wiped the skirting. I brushed the carpets in the bedrooms as best I could. By three I was finally as good as done … agent twat called, telling me what time she’ll come for inspection.

I cleared my stuff out of the wardrobe – since she wanted to check those, whether I had cleaned – then went down to Rose to eat the Sushi the guys had brought for me.

A lovely patch of sanity while I had my Sushi at Rose’s! Then the agent … she saw that damage in the bedroom, which put her in a bad mood. She took that mood out on me! Went on about dust in one corner and wiping the skirting behind that glued-on cabling! For Pete’s sake, beech! As she left, she instructed me to call her the instant the flat is empty, since she’s got people who want to see it, and the carpet cleaner needs in and …. Hello? Excuse me? Are you adding these 3 extra days to my deposit? If not, then you actually have no right to access the flat! I’m still paid up until the 31^st! Of course, that only occurred to me after she’s left!

Then Romeo showed up! Poor, poor, poor darling Romeo! He sat outside the gate for some time shocked that the bowls were gone! Eventually he came inside … no furniture! He went to the kitchen … nothing there! He stood there looking for a minute, then came back out. Then went back to check if the kitchen had returned to normal … then came back out. Repeat again and again. Once I got up and he went filled with hopeful excitement to the kitchen, expecting THIS TIME it would be back to normal … I just didn’t know how to explain. He’d come for lovies, then go back to the kitchen. Eventually he sat on the counter, curled around the catnip shaker … and it looked like he had tears in his sky blue eyes!

Then I cleared everything still left in the flat, packed my suitcase, had a shower and visited Rose! I won’t talk about Wasabi!

As I went down to Rose’s I took my front door mat with – Romeo and Frankie love that one, since there’s catnip on it! I also gave her the last of the catnip in the shaker … Romeo followed, again getting excited. Poor, poor darling!

Frankie also said goodbye to me! He came up to me and let out a short, quiet meow. Then sat on Rose’s lap.

I’ve left out stuff, I’ll fill in the gaps when I have my PC back. This laptop is overheating already, after just a few minutes of working on it. It gets so hot, I couldn’t put it on my lap, even if I wanted to!

My boss called this morning & we sorted out the petrol card. He called the driver tonight, asking him to leave at four in the morning! I’m sorry, but I’ve worked hard all day, four is too early for me! The truck can’t leave without the sleeper couch, I’ll be sleeping on just now …