Out of the old apartment, so now it's unpacking and organising in the boat

Turned in the keys today, I am officially only living in one place!  I will miss the apartment, it was great and close to work, but this new adventure will be awesome too :)

I have one more trip to the storage unit, and I have everything on the boat except for the last of the food and wine.  The next step is to unpack, organize and get rid of the cruff.  I think I'm going to have to get more shelving and small space organisational items before I am totally finished, but I'll get as much done before then that I can.

Bit weight off of my mind having everything finished with the old apartment.

Update! Packing, unpacking, moving and sorting all of the things

Long time in-between updates, I've been busy!

I am almost out of the old apartment, I just have a few things in the storage unit and the fridge, few things in the freezer and then I'm done! 

Unpacking is going to go a bit more slowly.  My saintly cousin came up and helped this all happen.  She met with the movers (third set), did multiple good will runs, helped me identify stuff that I don't need, and pointed out that I need to stop buying pens and post it notes.

She isn't wrong.

So after the last run tomorrow it's all focusing on unpacking the boat.  I think I'm going to have to purge the closet, for the fourth time, and most likely other things. 

It doesn't feel too small yet, but it isn't spacious either.  It's a mental shift, getting rid of all of the things.  Everyone says it's 'freeing' but I honestly keep adding up all of the money I spent on these things that I'm giving away.  I don't have a problem with giving things away, I don't want stuff ending up in the landfill and if I can donate it's so much better, but I find that I am re-evaluating my consumerism.  Not sure yet how I feel about that.  I feel like that is another blog post.

So while the sky is smoky and the moon has turned red again (due to fires north, south and east of us) I'm going to work on unpacking.

Achievement Unlocked -- Comfort Food

Living on a houseboat, a lot of things are exactly the same as living on land, but a few aren't.  Besides the whole toilet situation the stove is very different.  Mine is propane and the tanks are outside in an attached box.  One of them is hooked up to a valve that I can control from the kitchen.  This was the alarm that was going off in the middle of the night, so I had unhooked everything to make sure I wasn't going to die and then cut power to the alarm.

Today I had the system powered up all day with no issues so I hooked the propane back up and lit up the stove for the first time!  I used my new nestable pots and boiled water.  Half a box of Velveeta Mac and Cheese soon followed.  I used the collapsible strainer, I ate it in one of my collapsible bowls (my dishes came in today but the bowls aren't quite big enough) and it all worked!  Yes there is a theme here, collapsible is key when you don't have a lot of space.

I have to turn the valve on here to use the stove

That was the first thing I've 'cooked' here, and it was definitely comfort food.  I honestly think my Instant Pot and toaster oven will end up doing more of the cooking duties than the stove, but it's nice to have options.

Now I"m going to go unhook the propane since I don't 100% trust the alarm.