And just like that it was better

Maddy is moved in and settled into her dorm room, although she is sleeping across the quad in another dorm room. One that is air conditioned. We approached the second day with a bright and cheerful attitude and it obviously worked. We discovered that the building is under construction on the first floor as the lounge gets renovated. Thus the warning signs posted. What I had assumed was a warning against a 1922 built building was just a typical construction sign. Huge relief for me.

We cleared out the storage unit in one trip and closed that account while I made friends with the owner of the place.

Him: "You have tenacity! I like that."
Me: "Most people just call me a smart ass."
Him: "I was trying to be polite."

We took our time carrying the items up the thirty stairs, resting in between in front of the fans. We left after that to eat and soak in some air conditioning. The day was cooler with less humidity and we had left the windows open over night so the room smelled better. We walked around downtown after lunch and got some yogurt before we headed back to finish the room.

By the time we left that night around nine o'clock the room, was put together, the carpet vacuumed, and we both felt pretty proud of having gotten it all done. We were dirty and sweaty and a tad sore in the limbs, but the damn room was done!

We made a shopping list for the next day for all her toiletry items and little extras, showered and went to bed. We slept in, had a nice breakfast, headed to Walmart and ended up buying a futon that had to be in the biggest box yet. It was certainly the heaviest. I about lost it, but I held it together and we opened the box and carried the futon in two separate pieces in two trips. We put it together and had time left over to hang Madison's NY playbills on the wall before she headed off to RA training and I headed to the airport.

Mission accomplished! I have a little over a week to rest up before the next moving experience for daughter #2. Should be interesting to compare the two since her building is brand new and guess what? Still under construction...