Moving Day!

Yesterday we moved into our new digs. I rightly predicted it being a long day. It started at 8am with some breakfasts and packing (which didn't take long since I haven't yet acquired much crap). We then got a taxi to our house and dumped all our stuff before getting the first of many many many buses to Ikea. I wasn't particularly happy after standing in the rain waiting on buses for an hour but I perked up a bit after 2 trotter hotdogs and we got the show on the road. What we did is effectively kit out an entire house from scratch, which, if anyone is wondering, takes one regular trolley, one furniture cart and $600. That's around £300 which isn't bad considering we got a couch (with delivery) and everything we'll need for now. We don't have a kettle though. Which makes tea-making a laborious process.

Anyway, after Ikea and many buses home, we dumped that stuff too and went to Canadian Tire (like B&Q) for airbeds because Ikea couldn't provide us with cheap, comfortable nests. We also got our keys cut there because our landlord, who I'm beginning to think is not cool, only gave us one set of keys. The woman there failed at that so we're going to need to go back so that we can all get into our house.

We dumped our airbeds at home and headed up to BC Liquor for celebratery drinks and then to Safeway for foodstuffs. Now, by this time I was in a pretty unhappy mood because I was tired and cold and had been damp all day and the tea shop hadn't called back so I thought I was still unemployed and would never break into the tea industry. However, I checked my phone and had a voicemail from Pierre the tea man saying they would like to hire me and it turns out nothing cheers me up faster than a French man telling me I have a job in a tea shop. And this time when we went home we could actually make it further than the hall because that concluded our necessary events for the day. Which was also pretty awesome.

With that all done it meant we could go about creating a home, which was fun but didn't take very long since we have only the essentials. I'm pretty impressed with my nest though. And now I have a clothes rail it's going to be even better. Well, when I get some coat hangers. It's pretty tiny but I don't have much stuff so it's not too cluttered. Yet. Once our home had been created I went and cooked up some spaghetti bolognese because I could now that we have a fantastic cooker and all the things people don't realise they use to make bolognese until they have to buy all of it. So it was wine and bolognese for dinner followed by some cards and the moose dice game and a late-night drunken bath my many bubbles and much more (too much more) wine.

After waking up in my nest with no recollection of going into my nest I had to get up to let the burley Ikea delivery men in with my clothes rail and our couch. Since Greg was still asleep me and Debbie were left to realise that Ikea don't drill holes big enough for their screws and put pieces of blue plastic into their bolts to stop us from being able to assemble our sofa. Which is a bit crap because we have it but are going to have to deal with situation before we can sit on it. I don't know if it's best to phone Ikea or just get some new bolts or just pad it out with cardboard.

For the time being I think I'll choose to ignore the situation in the hope that it'll sort itself out.

Since we don't have the internets at home yet (roll on December 8th) we're sitting in Blenz using their internets. I had to go to my new work (Steeps Tea) to give Pierre my boss my details, such as a contact for a tea emergency. He gave me a big booklet of tea information that I need to read as my homework before I go in on Friday to start my training. What's happening on Friday is I go and sample all the tea for 3 hours and get paid. That's my job. I love Canada. I'm kinda nervous though because there's lots of tea and they sell stuff too so I need to remember all that and it's gonna be tricky. Pierre says I seem like a smart girl though so I'll be alright.

Alrighty, think that's all the words I have for now so I'm gonna fire in some photos as a treat for those of you who've made it this far. Good work.

Debbie being excited about moving out of little Tokyo

All my stuff all packed up

All you need to build a home ($600 required)

My nest. It's changed since the arrival of my clothes rail

The kids watching TV sans sofa

Debbie in our newly furnished kitchen

Our first dinner

The fireplace looking like a vampire cat's face with Greg's totem pole