before we move my stuff

Now, like I said, after going on vacation together we agree that I will move in with him. But first.
But first he needs to make room for me. So we tidy up the place. We move stuff into his basement. We put stuff in boxes. We put his clothes in his closet. Boxes are labeled. A neighbor is moving out so we put some stuff out on the curb with her stuff and whatever the neighborhood hasn’t taken with them is picked up by the municipal.
It takes us several weekends to free his bedroom from all kinds of clutter (we’ve been sleeping on his sofa-bed because his bed is only big enough for one person). Then we move my bed into the bedroom. Of course, in the process we have managed to clutter up the living room (which we had been sleeping in until then) with all the boxes and things that we haven’t decided what to do with yet.
Then we go and start fixing up my place (the wallpaper is peeling). That is a stop-and-go project. Peel off all the wallpaper. That takes up one and a half weekends. Put plaster on the walls and let dry. Re-tile part of the bathroom. Put up wallpaper. You get the picture. It takes forever. And we don’t really finish with that until mid-January (Also I went to Australia for 3 weeks in December… so… no renovations took place then.)
In December his parents came to visit and his sister was supposed to sleep at our place. So… we needed to tidy up the living room! Aaaargh! That took another 3 days. But in the end it looked really good and we were mighty proud of ourselves.
Of course as of right now (mid-January 2009) I haven’t moved all of my stuff out of my old apartment because it’s cold and snowy and I’m lazy and stuff. Also my lease doesn’t end until end of February… so… I’m procrastinating. Mainly because everything that isn’t in boxes needs to be taken to the recycling place where they will shred all the paper stuff and recycle all the jars I have etc. And that is an extra trip just for the junk and ugh!