Night #1 in my new digs...

So last night was night #1 of sleeping in the new house. I was alone! It was eventful...in between all of these activities, imagine climbing up and over lots of boxes, tripping over table legs, and spending twenty minutes trying to find every item mentioned...

Night #1 Recap:

1. Came home after work to paint the last coat on the "red wall" in the bedroom. Discovered that "last coat" was actually "next to last coat." Groaned.
   
2. Helped Heidi move dryer into place. Consoled her over the huge holes that got torn in the linoleum by the angsty dryer.
3. Decide to do laundry. Discover washer is leaking.
4. Replace rubber washers in hoses.
5. Discover I'm out of detergent.
6. Drive to store for laundry detergent and dinner.
7. Return home. Begin laundry. Plug in microwave after digging it off of the bottom of a big pile of boxes. Return to painting.
8. Ten minutes later discover dinner is still frozen and washer has stopped. Realize microwave/washer have tripped breaker.
9. Throw the switch and first cook dinner, THEN re-start laundry.
10. Discover floor in laundry room is covered with water. Washer is still leaking. Ignore this.
11. Put load in dryer. Return 20 minutes later to realize laundry room is roasting. Open a few windows, and then say, "Why is it SO HOT!?"
12. Discover that dryer silver caterpillar thingy has fallen off. Hot dryer air is going right into room.
13. Wait ten minutes for dryer to cool, then spend 20 minutes reattaching silver caterpillar thingy.
14. Organize empty boxes in living room. Listen to country music stars recount stories of where they were on 9/11/01 on KMPS.
15. Organize boxes in storage room weeding out, "Anything I want right now." This includes 30 pairs of shoes, a box full of unsorted toiletries, linens, and jeans.
16. Move box springs and mattress into bedroom from living room.
17. Straighten living room enough for there to be a "clear walkway."
18. Begin Coat #3 of red paint around 10pm.
19. Complete painting and rejoice! Throw the pile of "Anything I want right now" into the bedroom in the middle of the floor.
20. Talk to "Pam Shaffer is eating a vanilla wafer" and recount exciting moving tales.
21. Put bed together.
22. Put not-really-dried linens on bed.
23. Fall asleep for night #1.

Morning #1--the exciting addendum

1. Wake up. Try to take a shower. Realize have no idea where shower stuff is.
   
2. Find big box of shower stuff in storage room. No shampoo.
3. Freak out.
4. Open shower curtain to discover Heidi has already put shampoo in shower. Along with an entire case of toilet paper and a rubbermaid bin.
5. Move toilet paper and rubbermaid to bathroom floor.
6. Commence shower.
7. Smoke alarm triggered. Incessant ear-piercing beeping.
   
8. Bolt out of shower, dripping wet in hallway, worried that hot water heater is triggering a fire because it's sitting in a pool of water from leaky washer.
9. Confirm the smoke alarm is dumb. Was triggered by shower steam. Rip it from wall, remove battery.
10. Finish shower. Finish getting ready for work.