Can I control the weather?

One of the things I like about our Swiss apartment is the underfloor heating. It makes the tile floors in the bathroom, hallway, and kitchen all the more comfortable. Earlier in the week it was getting warmer, so I decided to turn off the heat. Well, the day after I did that it started getting cooler, and then yesterday morning we had snow flurries. Last night, Zürich Daddy Geek decided it was too cold and turned the heat back on. This morning we have blue sky and it looks like it will be a glorious day. I wonder what will happen if I turn it off again?

Too bad we'll probably be inside organizing. At least we don't have to clean since we're paying a king's ransom for a company to do it and guarantee the management will accept the apartment. Technically we're supposed to clean the inside of the windows on the double paned glass and I think that's definitely something left for a professional. Plus there's the bird poop on the window sill outside of Little Geek Girl's room. Someone else can do that.

ZDG is back from his housing hunt and was successful. We'll tell you more about that later. This weekend we need to sort what we want to take with us on the plane, what we want shipped by air, and what we want shipped by boat, from the rubbish and stuff we want to give away. The moving company will dispose of rubbish at CHF 68/100 kg and since we don't have a car, that's a bargain. I have four trash bags left and I'm saving those for whatever remaining food trash we have. If it won't make a smell, it's going into the cellar. I'm recycling all the glass bottles from our condiments and making the last run to the grocery store today.

On Monday night we'll move into a hotel. The movers come on Tuesday to pack us up and load up the truck on Wednesday. This time the movers arranged to reserve a parking space for the moving van, so I don't have to do it like I was supposed to last year. Then we will go de-register at the immigration office and write letters to cancel everything and in the meantime we need to sign our new lease, get it notarized, send it back to the U.S. and work on getting renters/liability insurance and starting our U.S. utilities.

The cleaners come on Friday and then on the Monday the 30th we hand over the apartment. LGG will continue going to school until Monday the 30th and they'll have a little party for her.