well, back to good old blogging again...
Last weekend we moved house (finally) we're now living in Tullamarine, right near the main airport, and funnily enough, the planes dont sound any louder here than where we were before, which was a lot further away from the airport....
But anyway... we signed the lease on Saturday, and we got a bulk of things over (not including funiture yet) I had to break up a fight between my cat and the neighbours cat (old house) and when I picked spider up, he bit me on the wrist, broke the skin and went right down to the bone... so heres me on our moving weekend with an infected wrist that I can barely move, wrapped up in bandages and a sulky cat who decided to hide under the airbed we had set up when we bought both of the cats over to the new house... but thats not the worst of it... of course he had to do this just before we got the trailer to move the stuff over... so heres me with an infected wrist that I cant move, trying to help mike move the fridge and washing machine and waterbed and all the rest of the *really* heavy stuff, and ending up almost breaking said wrist and also my toes when I dropped things on them... why me????
and to top it all off, we had the hottest november weekend on record... only one up from the last time we moved because this time we had the electricity put on *before* we moved in... not that this helped when we were actually moving, but it helped when we sat down for a few minutes because we had the fan at least :)
We now have the bulk of the stuff moved in... *but* and of course theres a but... we went to have a shower saturday night.. and guess what? the shower head wasnt giving us any cold water... so we gave up on that and filled the bath instead... had to call the real estate to get the plumber... then we found out that the missing tiles in the bathroom hadnt been pulled off... they're just randomly falling off the wall... along with the shower screen which has come apart from the wall... and if thats not enough??? our electricity is screwed... if we turn the stove top on, the lights flicker, the oven doesnt work.. and to use the microwave without it sounding like its going to blow up, we have to turn off all but a couple of the lights... so once again back to the real estate agent to fill in a maintenance request... a few hours later I get a call from our agent saying they'll do what they can, but the bond from the previous tenants is almost gone, so technically, they'll do what they can up until the money runs out, then its up to the landlord...
apart from that, its a nice house, just a little old, we've been told we can repaint it, if we do a good job (the last tenants botched the job completely) Im pulling up the laminate in the kitchen cupboards because they were manky beyond belief... so Im pulling up the laminate, and I find paper stuck to the wood on the shelves, I then have to soak the paper, wait for it to soak in, get my trusty scraper and get most of it off... then sand the shelves to get rid of any paper or paperglue residue, then wipe it down with methalated spirits to make sure the wood doesnt swell... at this point Im glad I've been working on refinishing the piano.. its given me the tools and experience I need to do the kitchen cupboards... its taking a while to do tho, Im only getting a chance to do it in the mornings before work (when Im not catering to the visits of the plumber the electrician and the tiler lol )Im hoping to be done by the weekend so I can unpack the kitchen stuff, also because we're repainting the main bedroom this weekend so we can get the waterbed set up... the matress we're sleeping on at the moment is doing my back in....
but enough of by bitching.. at least the floors and the walls are straight, and theres only one set of louvre's, so I dont have wind whistling through the house at all hours... and the blinds block out 50 to 70% of the sunlight, which is great for summer because the house stays dark and cool... and we had a visitor last night... a little tabby cat turned up on our back step (much to the chagrain of my two cats) so we went out there and gave him a little food, and in return he let us pick him up and pat him and he was purring and left claw marks in my arm where he was flexing his claws... but he was absolutely gorgeous :D
And another couple of good things, we now have a bath (woot) a shower I dont hit my elbows on the walls in, a dining area so we're not squeezing around the dining table in the kitchen, a garage (somewhere to park the patrol and so mike has an area to work on his models in) a spare room, so now we have somewhere to put the extra furniture.. it has a back porch, somewhere we can put our outdoor setting.. and a great spot at the end of the driveway that lets us park two cars side by side, so now we're not blocking each other in the driveway anymore... I love it!! lol
ok... since its late, and I have to get up early, and do some washing, and drying, and besides that, all this typing is killing my wrist... I think Im going to head off to bed... nuhnight everyone :)
