Damn it has been a crazy week, I've been trying to sneak in a blog post here and there but it has just been impossible and honestly I think that i've had other things on my mind.
So this passed weekend was the big moving weekend and as much as I thought we couldnt have much stuff in the small place we lived in I was proved wrong. Were did we put all the stuff we have. I'm telling you that flat was like a Mary Poppins bag!
The other bit of new last week is that the whole redundancy process was started in my office... yay what fun times. But honestly my mind was too much on the move to actually stop and think too hard or worry about the whole redundancy thing. I'm learning to let go of things. And to stop the negative thoughts. This seemed to stand me in good stead and since I responded with a positive "can-do" attitude I scored pretty highly on their little points matrix and so I'm all safe and happily moving forward with the company. I seem to be the only one that thinks it could be quite exciting. But that is purely cause i'm the only one that the removal of other people gives me more opportunity to grow in the company and take a more client facing position which is what I wanted. It gets me out of my chair in front of my computer and moving around which is great for having good momentum.
So work has been crazy manic but managed to get the friday afternoon off to go fetch van and go do some Ikea shopping!! YAY. We did get the bed as previously mentioned. Which is HUGE!! We loose each other in it. We also picked and more expensive matress and are SO not regretting that. It is awesome. We also picked up a load of neccessary things like pots and pans, crockery and cutlery. After an annoying 30 mins of trying to get everything to fit into the van we gave up and admitted that we would just not fit in the longest item. So we had to pay for C to go home in a taxi with it while I drove the rest of the stuff back.
Once home we basically landed up rushing back out to make it down to the Reel Big Fish gig in Kentish Town. Basically a friend had bought us tickets about 4 months ago and didnt tell us until a week before the gig. Which was just so badly timed with the whole move happenning. Esp since we had done very little in the way of actual packing. Otherwise it was a cool gig and always good to see some live music...even if the support act before was just a joke !!
Saturday morning saw us getting up and heading off to get the flat's keys from the estate agents and then dropping off our first load of Ikea stuff. That all went well and according to our moving schedule. Then we heading off down to Greenwich to go pick up the chair that I bought on ebay. We navigated our way down there no problems, found the guy in no time and popped the chair in the back and headed back up north. All went well until the otherside of the Blackwall tunnel (am I just weird for being excited that I got to drive under the Thames!!??) and then we hit our first problem.... we missed the correct turn off. So we take the next one and that shouldnt be a problem. We just headed down that very long rd and joined up with the correct route at a roundabout. But the traffic was crawling along this very long road. We stuck it out only to find out that a whole section of the road was closed off because of a burst water main in both directions. So all the traffic was being diverted around the Hackney Marshes. There was just no where to go but sit in the traffic. We then realised that the high volume of traffic was thanks to the freaking arsenal gome on at their home grounds (which is now even closer to our home) Since we had not had any breakfast we were starving and had been sitting in the car for almost 3 hours!!!! All i had on me were a hand full of jelly beans that i had stolen from a clients meeting room. Trust me we savoured every little jelly bean. And then we discovered a BURGER KING... yum yum.
Anyways to shorten the story we finally got home at 4 in the afternoon and still had to start packing and moving our stuff. Plus I was supposed to be at Miss Quiet's farewell drinks as she was heading back to quatar. We managed to pack and do a couple of loads. Then went shopping at the Argos for more home stuff and the Sainsbury's for food to stock our lovely big fridge. Then we got stuck in MORE football traffic. We then got the bed built and dressed with linen :) Actually the most complex part of building the whole bed was the damn slats to support the mattress!
Then we headed off to Soho to meet up with Miss Quiet (hours late by now) and landed up staying out until 3am before catching a bus back to the old flat to pick up the essentials that we had forgotten like underwear and toothbrushes, and then driving back to the new place to crash in the lovely new bed.
WOW you really dont know what you are missing when you have a crap mattress until you sleep on a great mattress. Our new bed is divine!!!
Sunday just involved more and more loads (again where the hell did we put all the stuff we have) and finished up the day with a dinner cooked in our new kitchen (the only room unpacked so far) and us in the new bed while watching some series.
What a crazy weekend.
