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The Move Report

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So the move started around 825 last Friday morning when the packers arrived to begin, well, packing. 🙂 Adam and Simon had left at 8 to get Adam to nursery and Simon to the Agent’s to sign the lease and get the keys.

I gave them a quick tour of the flat and they were pretty wide eyed when they saw all the books. Although the booker/estimate guy knew about them!

And so the packing began. We own, thanks to a certain relative coming to stay and getting ill and leaving them behind, about 10 suitcases, so I packed our clothes myself. Besides, would you want a big burly packing man to pack your lingerie? Me either. 😉

Around 930 Simon rang from the Estate Agent saying they wanted a full months rent and then we’d pay the partial month rent in the middle of November. This is not what the Agent told me when I asked a month ago, but we had the money so, okay! I was amazed they actually took a cheque for it. In the US first month’s rent and deposit has always required a bankers cheque, in my experience. In any case, Simon finished up with that and headed up to the house with some things for Adam’s room. The plan was that he and Adam would go up on the Saturday before the movers and get him at least partially settled.

So anyway, the packers and I were packing. Simon was sorting the new house. Adam was at daycare.

Around 12 Simon got back with lunch for us and the packers took their lunch break. I had been chatting to one of them, as they flew through the packing, to see if they thought it might be possible to do this in one day. It was finally determined, no, they couldn’t, because the truck they brought was too small. They had been loading the truck as they packed, so they were 99% sure they didn’t have enough space and all those books are very heavy and the truck was definitely sinking on it’s tires!

So they finished about 430. At around 5 Adam got home from nursery and was like this: O_O at the empty flat. He ran from room to room for a bit before realizing that almost all of the previously off limits and locked cupboards were wide open. A small boy never had so much fun opening and closing doors!

The next morning we got up and finished the bits of packing we could do. At around 830 the movers arrived again and Simon and Adam took off for the house. We finished the packing and I called the taxi and we headed off.

Adam was having a great  time in his new garden:


When the trucks arrived Simon and Adam took off again to explore the neighbourhood while I directed the unload. By about 1130 it was done. We were moved in to our house.

The past week has been fairly hectic, not helped by Adam being ill with D&V and ear infections for most of it, including not sleeping well. There are some maintenance issues that need to be sorted, but the house is pretty much perfect.

There has been one amazing side effect, for me, in all this. I have always sworn I didn’t want to own a domicile. I do believe I’ve changed my mind. To the point that I am pricing houses in the neighbourhood…

So I Haven’t Written About My Health in Awhile

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Mostly because there is so much other stuff going on. But, truthfully, I’m not doing very well.

Part of it is all the stuff I am trying to get done with the move. Although we are paying for the moving company to pack us, I still have a lot of sorting and organizing to do, along with cleaning the flat to ‘leaving’ level. A lot of that cleaning will happen next Sunday after all of our stuff is moved out, but I am doing some of it over the next week.

All that bending and stretching and leaning and pushing and pulling means I am sore. A lot sore.

Muscles anterior labeledAll the places I am sore.*

It’s not helping that I am not resting as much as I should, and I know this. On a regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday, when Adam is in daycare, I usually work in the morning, have lunch, work for about another hour and then have a rest until pick up time. I haven’t been doing that this past week or so, so I can get more done, and probably won’t be doing it this next week either for the same reason.

I am also, of course, working. Major stuff going on with my biggest client. Other majorish stuff going on with another client. Possibly another client in the pipeline.

The good news is that my mental state is excellent.

But I’m going to be sore and tired for awhile. I’ll try to not be too cranky!

*Having the ‘are pictures necessary’ debate on MN again. Still think it’s silly in this instance. I mean, do you really need that image?!?!

So, As Has Been Mentioned…

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We are moving soon.

And I’ve been thinking about what I am going to miss about this apartment, this apartment that was my dream apartment when we found it, with it’s hardwood floors and nice large kitchen. This apartment that I am really going to miss over all. But what specifically?

  • The double oven. New house doesn’t have one.
  • The gas stove. New house is all electric.
  • The dishwasher. New house doesn’t have one of those either.
  • The kitchen. Although I am not sure the kitchen in the new house is actually smaller, just differently configured, and definitely has less cabinet space.
  • The bare floors. New house is carpeted.
  • The location. Although there are some shops within walking distance to the new house, nothing like being at City Centre!

I’m sure there are more things, but those are the one from the top of my head. And what do I love about the new house, that I don’t have now?

  • The garden
  • The garage
  • 4th bedroom as my office. Simon can call it the den as much as he wants. It’s still my office.
  • The living room
  • The dining room
  • The closet in our bedroom that goes the length of the room
  • The cupboard under the stairs. No, I won’t be making Adam sleep there. He’s not Harry Potter. 😉
  • The downstairs toilet
  • The quiet neighbourhood

I’m sure I’ll add to the list once we’ve moved and settled in.

M-day minus 7…

So, The Movers Are Booked

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And the Great Clear Out of 2011 is well on it’s way.

We are having the pros pack for us so all I’m doing is going through stuff, that I’ve been meaning to go through for, oh, 4 years and dumping a lot of crap.

Some of that crap included boxes of undies from before Adam was born. As my tummy got bigger and I had to move from sexy matching bras and pants to un-sexy maternity bras and pants I bought some storage boxes from Ikea and packed all of my sexy ones away for the duration.

Yesterday those boxes were hauled out of the top of the closet, only 2 years after the birth of my son, and inspected. The pants, fab. Size 14. That’s my size! The bras…um…well…

You see, I could, theoretically go back to the 38s. I have some 38s now that fit me. I am, more or less, the same weight I was when I conceived.

What I will never be again is a B cup.

Even without ever having my milk come in more than drips and drops my breasts increased by a full cup size. I am, most definitely, now a C.

Forever and ever.

Amen.

So bye bye old, lovely sexy pants and bras.

Guess I need to go shopping and get some that fit! 😉

Haven’t Had Much Time To Write

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as my afternoons on Adam’s nursery days are now taken up with the Clear Out of 2011. Even though the new house has a ton of storage space, I am doing my best to not move a lot of junk from one place to the other!

I’m also totally organizing the move for us, contacting removal companies, making lists of utility companies and others to notify of the change of address, along with, of course, the graphic work my clients are expecting me to do and pay me for!

So busy is a good way to describe life right now and, as usual, this blog is the last thing on the list.

But I am Tweeting regularly, so feel free to follow that (@tee2072) and I’m on MN, so look for me there!

I’ll try to keep y’all up to date with move info, but it may have to wait until after the move!

The Application Has Been Filled Out…

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the deposit has been paid…we are moving to a house!!

Not just a house, but a perfect house. So perfect I am still half feeling like I dreamed it and it can’t possibly be true or ours. Kind of like the way I felt about this flat when we moved here.

But they’ve taken our money and Simon and I are meeting the Estate Agent again tomorrow so Simon can see it. He couldn’t come today and houses to rent in the area we want are being snatched up in hours, so I took it and he took my word for it.

It’s 4 bedrooms (I get an office!), 1.5 bathrooms, has a huge garden and a garage. Oh and it’s detached, a rarity in our price range in the area we’ve been looking. There’s a living room and a dining room and enough space in the kitchen that there is a table in there as well. The neighbourhood is lovely, quiet and full of families.

There is a public library just down the road and a fairly high ranking primary school as well. Not sure if Adam will go there, but it’s a possibility at least.

It’s a bus ride to nursery rather than a walk, but that’s okay. It is walkable, if we really want to, but is about 2 miles. So will probably take the bus.

There is a train station not too far for Simon to get to work.

It’s walking distance to a shopping area with a Co-Op, butcher, off license and the like.

Still pinching myself and not sure I’ll believe it’s really ours until we sign the lease.

Now to pack!

I Just Want To Put Here

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For the record that Sheppard’s Pie made with leftover lamb and veg is not as nice as made from raw and slow cooked. It was edible and had fresh mash but it just wasn’t the same.

In other news, we haven’t found a new place to live yet but our landlord is being incredible and not only letting us go month to month starting in August but is also slightly reducing our rent. He’s also agreed to reduce it further if we decide a new place is just not available and we agree to sign at least a 6 month lease.

In other, other news even if we don’t move we are having a massive clear out. Our hope is to lose at least one bookcase and to get rid of all of Adam’s baby stuff. *sniff*.

Which reminds me. Look who can drink out of a cup: –

Look at MEEE!!!!