First night in a new place

Over this past weekend Carol and I decided to get out of the house and spend the weekend camping out in our new house. So on Friday, before anyone else came home, Carol had the car packed up with the essentials: sleeping bags, pillows, bag-o-clothes, tv, vcr, dvd player, playstation 2, super nintendo, all the games to go with each, two cases of dvds, box of food we've had sitting around since the last apartment, and her guitar hero guitar.
We drove down to Staunton first and met up with a couple of Carol's friends for dinner and then went back to Michael's place (he was at new years). We played pool and then I went to bed. They stayed up until around 7:30a. I woke up at 4:30a because my dream was starting to play out their conversation......and it was a weird conversation. So I woke up and hung out with them for an hour and then went back to bed.

So Saturday...finally...after Carol woke up at 3, we decided to go to our storage unit, pull out some stuff, and unload it in the house. We, again, grabbed only the necessities: couch cushions, pillows, and two...yes TWO boxes of Magic the Gathering cards.

But we spent the night all cozy in our new house. We bought KFC and ate that for dinner while watching movies and periodically getting up to walk around the house and explore...in the dark. We have our electric hooked up (of course so we could watch movies), but there was something about standing in the doorway in the darkness, picturing what the room would look like...dancing together throughout the rooms. Sitting on the floor of our bedroom talking..."what is something you've never told me?" "I put your hand cuffs on the bookshelf at the last apartment. I didn't hide them, you just didn't look for them."

It was so much fun. It felt....like home. It felt like our old home. And somehow if we sat there long enough all of our stuff woudl just appear. We stayed there all day sunday until it was dark again...walking around and seeing how the light changed in every room. Trying to remember where the light switches are in every room....because they are dreadfully inconvenient. Figuring out where to put the litter boxes and the cat dish...where does the microwave go, which cabinet is for plates and which is for cups. And it seems like it almost didn't happen.