Big Moves Approacheth
After four or five months delay, after a small move in January, after Nikki living in spider-infested, at times freezing cold, temporary accomodation, and after spending the last few months looking at couches, tv's, coffee machines and crockery, we finally got completion notice on our new house.
Well, I say completion notice, but of course I really mean 'snagging notice', in that they told us we could now come in to find every little niggley thing that's wrong with the place, tell them about the snags, and get them to fix them. Hopefully, seeing as they've now built quite a few places in the development, they'll have gotten the hang of it by now andf won't have fucked up too much. But judging by Seamus's 5-week snagging ordeal, and the fact that his place is only two doors down from ours, I'm being cautiously optimistic.
In the meantime, Nikki has to move from her temporary accomodation to yet another temporary place, this time a two-bedroom apartment in Monkstown. And this time I'm moving with her. I figure it's a good way of packing all my stuff up and sorting it out, before moving it permanently into an actual home. But then I also realise it means I'm going to move house twice in the next month. Oh well, I'm sure there'll be plenty of fun to be had. :-)
In other news, I have been invited by the Argentinian Ambassador to Ireland and The Captain of the flagship of the Irish Naval Fleet to a reception on said flagship, the L.E. Eithne, next Thursday. This is due to Nikki's dad being a Commodore in the Irish Navy, and this will be the first such Naval reception-thingy I will have been to. There's nothing on the invitation about a dress code though, so I'm going to go wearing bermuda shorts and a hawaiian shirt. And wellies.
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You forgot to mention the noisy animals (fox, cats, birds and others yet to be identified) outside my bedroom window, the 'mice' in the corner of my bedroom, the house alarm that beeps intermittently and usually just as you fall asleep and the wonderful 'showerroom' that floods.........
ROLL ON MOVES!
Posted by: NKL | May 18, 2006 2:23 PM
Best of luck with it. Remember to make sure your list is as long as possible! But my experience was that they were generally pretty good. (once you got over the initial scare of finding your new home wasn't actually finished to showroom finish).
Posted by: sliabh | May 18, 2006 3:19 PM
Yeah, I'd wager your not going in shorts and wellies.
Posted by: Adrian | May 18, 2006 5:47 PM
If there's money riding on it, I'll definitely be going in shorts and wellies.
But it'll probably be a collar and tie affair. And I really don't want to be escorted off the ship by armed guards.
Posted by: Matt | May 18, 2006 6:20 PM
ooh can I help you pack and box all of the stuff? I love organising things!! Also Nikki, try living right beside a 24hr Tesco, with piped music in the carpark that you can hear when in bed, all the time, they dont play it anymore after I called them and told them politely to turn it off and they bluntly that there was no music so I took things into my own hands, went out the back, scaled the wall (in my pyjamas) into the car park, went up the travelator and dragged the night manager down to allow them to hear the music, I also worte a snotty letter to the manager giving out shite, who then called me and gave me his mobile number in case anything like this ever happened again(go on the Melvin).
Yay! your gaff is nearly ready - woohoo!!
Posted by: Babs | May 19, 2006 8:47 AM
You love organising things? .... I have a whole flat that needs tidying up ....
Posted by: Adrian | May 19, 2006 11:15 AM
I am a loser like that, almost OCD, but not quite so bad, I have all of my CD's and DVD's (loads) in Alphabetical and Genre order (each genre has its own alphabet you know?) and I wash the dishes wierd, and I have my clothes all in piles in seperate colours and am a clean freak, its strange but in a good way! (well I think so anyway!)I would tidy your flat, only if you pay me though!!
Posted by: Babs | May 19, 2006 11:53 AM
OMG - that sounds EXACTLY like you Adrian! Except you have casual t-shirt piles v smart t-shirt piles instead of separate colour piles.....
Scary....
Posted by: NKL | May 19, 2006 11:57 AM
Oh I have those too, like I have my casual t-shirt pile but in order of colour, and then I have my fancy top piles in order of colour, I have my socks that I can wear to work and then my crazy socks, and shoes in the boxes my wardrobe (hangy part) is in this order: Dresses for going out (in the plastic sheath you get in the dry cleaners) then coat, jackets, skirts work, skirts going out, shirts work, shirts casual, dresses work, belts, scarves, hats. Phew! Yeah I need to be organised or I go insane! Really, like more so than normal!
Posted by: Babs | May 19, 2006 1:02 PM
I just have my 'general everyday clothes' pile, and my 'shoes' pile.
Posted by: Matt | May 19, 2006 1:51 PM
That's cause you have about 3 pairs of shoes and you wear the same clothes for work, rest and play so it doesn't count, not like me, the queen of accessories!!
Posted by: Babs | May 19, 2006 2:30 PM
Excuse me, but I have, in fact, 8 pairs of shoes. But you're right about the clothes. That's probably the best bit about my job.
Posted by: Matt | May 19, 2006 2:43 PM
I know all about your clothes, seeing as I bought loads of them for you!! You are a baxtard, although its nice to wear nice clothes, only for work though, me in smart clothes out of hours is not a very regular sight!!
Posted by: Babs | May 19, 2006 4:19 PM
Now that work is all casual, I need to start separating by "trendy" and "not so trendy"
I quite like this colour thing though.
It's not the organising I have problems with, it's the getting round to doing I do.
Posted by: Adrian | May 20, 2006 1:11 PM
I don't classify my clothes as 'trendy' or 'not so trendy', but as 'cool' or 'no cool'. because trends come and go, whereas cool is always cool.
Now that I'm moving house, it's a great excuse to put all my 'not cool' clothes into a seperate pile and give them all to Oxfam. So come next month, I will always be cool. Which is like, pretty cool.
Posted by: Matt | May 20, 2006 3:38 PM
I've never been cool.
Posted by: Adrian | May 21, 2006 3:21 PM
Probably because you're trying to be trendy?
Posted by: Matt | May 21, 2006 8:52 PM
Is that such a bad thing? I just want to look good for a change.
Posted by: Adrian | May 21, 2006 11:02 PM
I've never seen you looking 'bad', my friend. But trying to look 'trendy' is basically just trying to look like the media tells you to look. Try just looking like you, and you'll look cool.
Posted by: Matt | May 22, 2006 11:46 AM
I have no idea what me looks like, except, never quite trendy
Posted by: Adrian | May 22, 2006 7:35 PM